[TowerTalk] electric fence qrn

[Tony King - W4ZT]

There are, as stated here, many different chargers manufactured for 
electric fence use.  Most of the "Fi-do" and continuous current types 
aren't the fence charger of choice for "large" animals and long fence runs, 
especially those where the owner may depend on the charger to burn weed 
tips to keep down the loss of energy due to leakage in undergrowth. The 
preferred charger produces about half a second of high voltage A/C at about 
3 second intervals which will literally burn weed tips and will bridge the 
time/distance gap to the larger animals (and remind you why you keep your 
fingers off high voltage too!).

We had one of the "weed burners" which I lived with for years and previous 
posts regarding good grounding and good connections are the best 
advice.  With those precautions, I've operated with hardly more than an 
occasional buzz when a weed got too close.  You can help your neighbor with 
a good ground rod and clamp plus remaking all those one or two 
twist  splices in the high voltage lead.

A side note, I also had one of the continuous current chargers in use for a 
time which became the worst source of RFI I ever saw... I may still have it 
in a junk box. It looks good... it will shock you... but you can't 
communicate anywhere near it or the fence it's attached to.

Good luck with your quest!

73,
Tony W4ZT

At 08:39 PM 12/8/2003, Mark Brown wrote:
>Hi All
>         I have a new neighbor who has horses and put up an electric 
> fence. It is
>giving off an s9+ pulse on the lower bands and is hearable on 2m ssb when I
>point that way. Any suggestions to fix it? I confirmed it is the fence and
>the neighbor is willing to work with me to fix it.
>                                                                         Mark
>
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