Connecting electric fencing?

I want to make a complete circuit and was wondering how people connect both ends of polywire together? I assume you just tie it but is that the safest way? Would it spark and cause a fire?

ADuckOnQuack said:

I want to make a complete circuit and was wondering how people connect both ends of polywire together? I assume you just tie it but is that the safest way? Would it spark and cause a fire?

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Don't they make a clip to join polywire together with? Is there a reason to make a complete loop?

Doesn't a complete loop work better than a incomplete loop?

ADuckOnQuack said:

Doesn't a complete loop work better than a incomplete loop?

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Never heard of it having to be in a complete loop---my regular wire electric fence has never been in a complete loop---well it has on one fence that I put up in a field. Right now I have some wire just above the water crossing the lake and the other end is running down the side of the field---its just one straight piece----it will knock your socks off----LOL.

On connecting hot poly tape or rope, the people who sell all this stuff would have you buyer splicer kits, crimping tools and such, but I normally just tie a knot in it. Square knot if you won't want to untie it, sheet bend if you want to get it apart someday. On the tag end, tie an overhand or figure 8 knot in the end, and done one more turn around the standing end on each side of the knot, so if the knot you tied slips, it will tension against itself. Generally, the knots are strong enough, so your concern is if the wires in the poly rope or poly tape are touching each other enough to make a connection across the splice. With something like a sheet bend, that is normally the case. You can test it on both sides of the splice and if the voltage is the same, you did OK and are good to go.

As PD and others have said, this does not need to connect in a loop. A dead end run of many miles is just as good as a loop. If the tape/rope/wire is hot, it's hot.

However, if I'm enclosing a large area, I like to end it where I started it, so I can test it at the beginning and at the end, and if the voltage is the same at both ends, its hot all the way around. But even here, I don't connect the ends.