Questions about installing premier electric fencing

[mcdaid36]

I just bought a few used rolls of premier electric poultry netting (was only used a couple of years) and was hoping to connect it up to the charger we used for the electric horse fencing (no longer in use). I watched a short video on the premier website, and it just mentioned real quick that when you finish your fencing lines, do not connect the fence back to itself. I found that interesting, since the horse fencing was a complete circuit and connected back to itself. I downloaded the instructions from the website and it doesn't mention that at all. Can someone clarify this for me? If it doesn't have to get attached back to itself, it leaves more options for me, as I can go from building to building, or use a couple of walls of the coop as part of the fence which will give the chickens a bigger area. Thanks!

 

[Clay In Iowa]

I have 2 rolls of their poultry netting and I do not connect it back to itself. I leave it as an open circuit.

Just keep the grass out of it. I have a high energy unit powering it. It'll throw 8,000 volts at the end of a 2,000 ft rope. On the netting It'll knock your socks off.

 

[greyhorsewoman]

We do not have ours attached back to itself. One side starts past our security fence door and goes around to end on the other side of our coop.

 

[mcdaid36]

Thanks so much! That was the answer I was looking for.

One more quick question. I am having trouble finding the alligator type clip that attaches the fencing to the charger. Anything else I can use?

 

[Clay In Iowa]

Expose a few inches of the energizer wire and wrap it around the connector on the fence. It's not easy to remove but it'll work.


If you really need the Alligator connector Premier sells them.

 

[patandchickens]

Your horse fence should not connect back to itself either, that is bad design (can damage the charger, and is totally needless). It should just be one line (can be branching) going outwards from the charger. To fence around a paddock obviously the fence does come back to where it started but it shouldn't CONNECT there, you know?

So, yes, it is totally fine that the electronet is that way too

There are any number of ways to attach the charger lead-out to the fence, you don't need an alligator clip (although if you do, a hardware store with a good electrical department will have 'em, albeit not necessarily insulated enough to let you use it without turnint off the fence charger first). Just do whatever gives you a good solid nonsparking electric connection and it'll be fine.

Good luck, have fun,

Pat

 

[mcdaid36]

Your horse fence should not connect back to itself either, that is bad design (can damage the charger, and is totally needless). It should just be one line (can be branching) going outwards from the charger. To fence around a paddock obviously the fence does come back to where it started but it shouldn't CONNECT there, you know?

Very interesting. Thanks for letting me know. We had it connecting back into itself. Maybe that's why we didn't get as much voltage out of it as we had hoped. We even had an electrician come to look at it.

I'll try and figure out a safe way to connect the box to the fencing. I'm sure I can figure out something. Thanks for everyone's help!​

 

[patandchickens]

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I don't honestly know whether or not having the fence loop back to the charger would affect voltage; but by far the most common problems are not enough ground rods (or not long enough), or ground too dry (or frozen), or poor quality insulators (esp. if they have nails that sit right near the charged wire), or more resistance in the fence than the charger can really charge. Ways of getting excess resistance that can sneak up on you without your realizing it include using high-resistance fence materials (including certain brands of tape/rope/braid), or corrosion or looseness at electrical connections, or charged wire run too close alongside a wire fence (you get induction of current in the supposedly non-charged wire fence, which saps strength from the 'live' fence), or just plain ol' too much fence material for the charger. ("Charges X miles of fence" means nothing whatsoever and seldom applies to real situations)

Good luck with your electronet,

Pat