Does anyone use solar to charge electric fence batteries?

Yep. Put it on a fence covering a 6 acre paddock and that was back in November. No other form of energy, just the solar energizer and it works the entire length of the fence, does not dip in energy even after 2 months of cloud and rain.

When I bought it, I kept it in the boot of my car for two weeks before hooking it up. Dan didn't think it would be working as he didn't think they would store energy for that long. He got a BIG shock, lol.

It has been wonderful and I'll never go back to a leisure battery again.
 
That's pretty much what I use; works well.
I'll have a look when I go to the yard later how it's attached. My rather more technical other half set it up. We've wrapped ours in clear plastic to keep it waterproof.
 
_GG_ said:
Yep. Put it on a fence covering a 6 acre paddock and that was back in November. No other form of energy, just the solar energizer and it works the entire length of the fence, does not dip in energy even after 2 months of cloud and rain.

When I bought it, I kept it in the boot of my car for two weeks before hooking it up. Dan didn't think it would be working as he didn't think they would store energy for that long. He got a BIG shock, lol.

It has been wonderful and I'll never go back to a leisure battery again.
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:o so you don't even use a battery?! Just hook this straight onto the fence energiser?!
 
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Farcical1 said:
That's pretty much what I use; works well.
I'll have a look when I go to the yard later how it's attached. My rather more technical other half set it up. We've wrapped ours in clear plastic to keep it waterproof.
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If you could take a pic that would be fab! :D
 
It is an all in one solar fence energizer, It takes energy straight from the daylight and stores it to use. It uses it the way a normal energizer would use a leisure battery, so in 2-3 second pulses so as not to waste energy. It keeps working day and night with no dips in power at all. It is fully waterproof and I have nothing covering it. I have a fence, the solar energizer sat on a brick and it has a 1m conductor rod which is pushed almost fully into the ground. The grounding clip is on that and the positive charge is on the fence, done!
 
I think GG is describing a solar powered energiser. These are more expensive but do remove the need for a battery.
I can take a pic; not sure if I'll be able to post it!
 
_GG_ said:
Yep, I said that's what I was using in my first post. :)
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Sorry, dim moment! I see, so a special unit. This looks good but not sure my pennies will stretch to this at the moment :(. Will try find out how to hook the solar up to the battery :)

HEEEELP?!
 
I have one of those attached to my battery and energiser. It works well.
I attach the crocodile clips from the energiser in the normal way then the crocodile clips from the solar panel to the croc clips of the energiser.
 
chestnuttyy said:
Sorry, dim moment! I see, so a special unit. This looks good but not sure my pennies will stretch to this at the moment :(. Will try find out how to hook the solar up to the battery :)

HEEEELP?!
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Mine had been used three times and came to me along with 40 fence posts and 400m tape for £100 :)

Keep your eyes peeled, there are bargains out there :)
 
i had one of the little solar trickle chargers from a caravan shop for about £10 and it worked a treat, until a pony escaped and stood on it!! it had smaller crocodile clips than the energiser so i put the solar clips on the terminals first then the energiser ones on top and it worked ok, must get another one as they do save lugging batteries about to be charged!
 
I got the solar panel from robinsons about four years ago and have it connected to the leisure battery then my energiser clipped onto that as the clips are smaller.
Never had an issue with it, and have used the battery to help jump start my truck a couple of times too.
 
Didn't manage a picture as it was too dark, but as others have said, crocodile clips are on the battery terminals, alongside those from the energiser. Works a treat!
 
I've got a 4 year old leisure battery being charged by a solar powered trickle charger, not had to do a "proper" re-charge for 6 months so far, it works on UV light to so the only time it doesn't charge is thick fog x
 
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