elec fencing help

[myhorses2015]

Wonder if you can all help me hows your elec fencing set up

1field it wooden posts other is poly (we cannot put wooden into the 2nd its all tape, just putting all new tape, connectors up & have come across a few ive always thought a elec fecne shoould be a complte circut or it shortens the volted?

I have a wooden gate up the top so cant really make it a complete curcit will my fencing not work the same as it would if it was a complete circut? im going to need 4 strands too this is a must all will have to be powered will it not work proberly because all 4 are electric? some people only have 1 or 2 stands elec i need all mine 4 my box in mains & 5 joules

TIA

 

[Auslander]

Quite the opposite - it shouldn't be a complete circuit. The animal is the thing that completes the circuit - when it gets a shock.

 

[popsdosh]

It depends what you mean by a complete circuit if you mean the live wire going in a circuit and joining up again that ok however the effect is no better than having a single run .So as long as the wooden gate is treated as both ends of a single run that will work .however you can buy under gate cable that you just dig in the ground to carry the power from one side to the other. By the way you can put tape on wooden post you just need the correct insulators.

This may help you http://www.rutland-electric-fencing.co.uk/PDFs/HorsePonyGuide.pdf

Their website also has everything you may need along with approx cost . Their fencing is available through lots of outlets throughout the uk. Try and avoid the cheap c**p sold on ebay as the major manufacturers product are far superior .

If you have any further questions you can pm if you want as I use this stuff professionally all the time.

 

[Auslander]

It depends what you mean by a complete circuit if you mean the live wire going in a circuit and joining up again that ok however the effect is no better than having a single run.

Can I ask a question? My understanding was that the fence should not be a closed circuit, because the horse touching the fence and the ground at the same time is what completes the circuit and creates the "zap". Electric current follows the path of least resistance, and tape has less resistance than a horse, so if it is already a closed circuit, current will circulate through the fence, rather than through the circuit created by the horse, so the horse won't get zapped/will get a less effective zap.

 

[popsdosh]

Can I ask a question? My understanding was that the fence should not be a closed circuit, because the horse touching the fence and the ground at the same time is what completes the circuit and creates the "zap". Electric current follows the path of least resistance, and tape has less resistance than a horse, so if it is already a closed circuit, current will circulate through the fence, rather than through the circuit created by the horse, so the horse won't get zapped/will get a less effective zap.

I agree if that is the snenario ,however I assumed the OP meant having a complete circuit of tape around a field as they mentioned the gate breaking the circuit
A fence that is shorted to ground is of no use at all