Electric fencing booster device?

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The fencing where I keep my horse is into the mains but not sufficient and I need to divide my paddock. I heard about a sort of booster device for electric fencing but can't remember for the life of me what its called......

Has anyone heard of this or know of anything I can use to boost it to stop my greedy mare pushing through?

 

[PeterNatt]

You just need a more powerful energiser but check first that there is no leakage to earth from the fencing. i.e the fencing in contact with plants etc.

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

The fencing booster you are thinking off is a more powerful energiser! As PeterNatt says above you may find that your earth is not working well. If you rectify that the output of your energiser may improve.

 

[Fransurrey]

Strim the fence line, remove any branches resting on the rope/tape and test the fence at intervals. If it's not an earthing issue, it may be that a section just needs a 'bypass', due to the wire threads being broken. Check the limit for the energiser. It may say 2 km, but that's at optimum performance with not so much as a blade of grass touching and that distance is soon achieved if you have two strands going around one or more paddocks!

 

[pippixox]

as other said- check the earth- a mains supply should be the best option as no risk of battery running out.
But I found with a strong energiser and a fresh battery the power was only really good when I got a longer earthing stick and dampened the ground I put it in to conduct better. finally kept pony in (along with more strands of tape!)

 

[Pc2003]

I absolutely love the solar power ones. Someone on here recommend them to me. I have one for each strand to make sure it’s absolutely pinging! They’ve been a life saver for me as mine always seemed to know when the mains was off or weak

 

[JanetGeorge]

The most vital 'booster' is a good digital fence tester to locate where the power is 'escaping' and fix it.

 

[meleeka]

Firstly. Check the power of your energiser. Then buy a proper fence tester and find out where you are losing power. It could be breaks in the tape or the earth stake (should be 1m) or any joins . You can putoe earth stakes in at intervals but I haven’t tried that.