Can not get my electric net fence to work Help Please

[flockandgarden]

Does anyone have any knowledge of these electric net fences. I must be hooking up the solar charger wrong or something. I have actually gone out and bought 3 different solar chargers to see if I just did not have enough power. The supply company assures me the last one I bought has enough power. I hook it up and nothing, nothing at all no charger in the fence. I dont think I am hooking the two clips from the fence up correct. I have a nice 4' copper grounding rod. but I am at a total loss. Can anyone give me any advise or instructions on how to hook these things up or do they not work at all.

 

[purplequeenvt]

Make sure your clips are hooked to the right places. Is it turned on? Also, have you let the battery charge up first?

I've never liked the solar chargers much. Too much depends in the weather. We use chargers that run off car batteries. Just as portable as a solar charger, but more reliable, IMO.

 

[secuono]

I have a solar energizer for a year now, from premire1.com. Never had any issues with it, even on cloudy weeks, it still works.
Do you know where on the net to clip the ground and hot wires to? Black is usually ground with red being hot. Hot goes to the fence, ground goes to the rod in the ground. But I don't use netting, just bare wire strands.
If it's solar, let it charge up. If it's a plug in to DC, AC then make sure you did that right.
Do you have a tester for the fence? Are you trying to use the fence on tall grass and brush? That will drain out the power to near nothing, so mow and cut away everything so the fence doesn't touch anything.
Did you put the rod in a wet area? Have you tried to water the rod and test the fence again?

 

[Rocco]

How are you testing the fence? Multimeter or a fence tester? Fence testers are notorious at being bad.

In another thread about electric fences I posted this:

"On my newest electric fencing (electric netting) I thought something was wrong with my charger as my tester got no reading (and NO, I didn't touch it myself). I rewired the thing a time or two, added grounding rods, and then replaced the charger with an older, but lower voltage one, that I had that I knew worked. Turns out the issue was that the tester I was using wasn't working! I let the goats out of their pens and used them to test the fencing....and Yes, it was working just fine.

I later tested it with new equipment and was getting over 8000 volts."

 

[treeclimber233]

Also how are you testing it? By touching it yourself? I learned the hard way that touching it while wearing tennis shoes or boots doesn't work. I put up a fence once and kept touching it while wearing tennis shoes. No charge. I kept checking and rechecking the wire. Nothing. I sat down on the ground in disgust and thought "one more touch" and found out the fence was working just fine. Never jumped up off the ground so fast.....

 

[jodief100]

I use electronets a lot. It is very easy to get a strand wrapped around the metal post and short it out. Make sure there is nothing wrapped around the spikes.