Coon or something

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I had a tester like it and gave it away. Your power should read with that fence charger around 4500 volts +/-
 
Somewhere it is shorting out. You will have to look carefully. One time I looked and looked and couldn't find the short. I gave up. I went back out the next day and looked again and by a miracle I found a tiny piece of wire laying across my electric wire that was touching some hardware cloth that is around the bottom of a coop. Good luck and have fun...
 
Depending on the predators you have, would be the voltage you would want. Mine has been running at 2-3000 and I'm ok with that. My predators are raccoons, oppossums and skunks. I used my dogs to test mine. It backed off all of them and even my highest prey driven dog, so I'm comfortable with that. I've zapped myself. It was quite the zap for where it is. I don't want that happening again, but I'm pretty good at grabbing stuff I shouldn't, so it will.....
 
Depending on the predators you have, would be the voltage you would want. Mine has been running at 2-3000 and I'm ok with that. My predators are raccoons, oppossums and skunks. I used my dogs to test mine. It backed off all of them and even my highest prey driven dog, so I'm comfortable with that. I've zapped myself. It was quite the zap for where it is. I don't want that happening again, but I'm pretty good at grabbing stuff I shouldn't, so it will.....
Do you have the same fence charger?
 
Back to the OP's fencer.

So with no load, you get 5 lights (which I take it is 5,500+ volts on the meter?). But when hooked to the actual hot wire, voltage drops off to 1,000.

We never heard.......what material is being used for the "hot wire"?

Actual wire (aluminum or steel) has very little resistance and little drop off in voltage over long runs. Cheap poly rope and/or tape has light wires and long runs may result in resistance punching the juice through those. But it would take some really long runs to do so. Yet another issue with cheap poly ropes and tapes, you may have a broken wire in the tape or rope and thus the charge is not getting through. To test this, test it all up and down the line. Start at the source and move down it at regular intervals (i.e., 25, 50 or 100 feet) to see if the voltage drops off somewhere. If so, with a tester, you can quickly isolate it down to the exact spot. Once found, you can cut it and splice it back to revive it.

If all that is good, It most likely is not the tester or fence charger. You almost certainly have a short somewhere that is bleeding off the juice.
 
I use poly rope wire. My sister uses regular wire. She seems to have more troubles with hers. I agree there is a short somewhere.
 

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