Mains Energisers

[AdorableAlice]

Please may I ask for a bit of guidance. We have one of these - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rutland-ESM-Mains-Fence-Energiser/dp/B00BW0VRF4

We haven't used it much as we also have the big solar powered energisers and the horses are all so fat they are strip grazing within the paddocks so getting mains power to them is tricky. In the week we had an incident of thieving and a horse was let out so we are trying to configure mains power across the paddocks.

This is the usage guidance -

Rutland Electric Shepherd ESM602 Mains Fence Energiser
The Rutland Electric Fencing ESM602 is a mains powered energiser capable of powering 20km of electric fencing with minimal vegetation with 2.5 stored joules which is perfect for controlling all types of livestock such as horses, cattle, poultry and pigs. The energiser is suitable for use with galvanised wire, high tensile wire, poly wire, poly rope, 12-20mm poly tape and 40mm poly tape. This mains powered fencing energiser is built to last thanks to its heavy duty case.
The ESM602 is fitted with a power indicator and pulse indicator light and is designed with a built in wall fixing bracket. The energiser also features a 1m mains lead and a moulded plug.
Features
Heavy Duty Case
Power and Pulse Indicators
Mains Powered
Wall Mountable for Ease of Use
For use with
Galvanised Wire
High Tensile Wire
Poly Wire
Poly Rope
12/20mm Poly Tape
40mm Poly Tape
Specifications
Model Number
ESM602
Stored Energy
2.52 Joules
Max. Power Use
8.4 Watt
Open Volts
11,000
Electricity Cost* Per Year
£7
Number Electric Nets
25
No Vegetation**
20km
Avg. Vegetation**
3.5km
Heavy Vegetation**
0.75km
* Cost is based on average domestic UK unit cost
** Distance rating is based on using a multi wire electric fence constructed of 2.5mm diameter high tensile galvanised wire
This Rutland Energiser is a mains fed Energiser which is suitable for paddocks and medium lengths of fencing.

I am using a mixture of poly tape 20mm and 40mm across 6 acres of level paddocks, split into 8 small 'fat camp' paddocks with post and rail boundary fencing, with low vegetation. Some wire on screw in pegs onto the main post and rail and the rest is on wooden finger posts with screw in pegs and dividing the paddocks. No plastic posts are used. I do have to cross several metal gates and I do this with wire above them. I have 3 earth stakes and the power is run under ground out to the paddocks with 3 isolation switches at various points, so I can power the left hand paddocks without powering the right hand side of the land.

I do have a fence tester but it is ancient and I'm not sure it is working, I don't have a small child to throw on the fence to test it either ! Would the 2.5 joules stored energy and 20km of no vegetation cover the area I need it to ?

Thank you.








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[cauda equina]

It should do, but I'd invest in a new tester to make sure.
Thye're only a few quid and it removes the guesswork

 

[AdorableAlice]

It should do, but I'd invest in a new tester to make sure.
Thye're only a few quid and it removes the guesswork

I am going to pop into TFM in the morning, they will have one. Many thanks, I did read the Gallagher handbook last night but got even more befuddled with all the figures.

 

[ycbm]

Blimey, 20km should be more than enough coverage AA. The distance it covers is the only thing you need to worry about.

We have that brand with a smaller unit, I do a total of close to a kilometre of wire with it, the perimeter of 11 acres. I used to have it strung 3 deep, so 3 km.

Can't you test it with Ted ??
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[AdorableAlice]

Blimey, 20km should be more than enough coverage AA. The distance it covers is the only thing you need to worry about.

We have that brand with a smaller unit, I do a total of close to a kilometre of wire with it, the perimeter of 11 acres. I used to have it strung 3 deep, so 3 km.

Can't you test it with Ted ??
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Ted is terrified of electric fencing. I could fence him with no power forever. Dim Tim on the other hand..........

 

[rabatsa]

If getting a new tester I have found one of these the best https://www.electricfence-online.co.uk/electric-fence-tester-with-digital-volt-m-93810622.html They might be pricey but are dead easy to use and there is no poking an earth spike into the ground. Mine fits in a pocket and goes down the fields with me all the time.

 

[AdorableAlice]

Thank you Rabatsa, that is a useful bit of kit and would be ideal for how we are set up with various strands of wire around the land. I hate electric tape with a passion and go to great lengths to keep it looking tidy. There is nothing worse than miles of slack wire, it is such a mess.

Is it me, or have things changed with grazing horses. Years ago you just turned out and they thrived. Now I turn out and they get colic twice, fat and gassy on minimal grazing. A monster sized horse is living on a postage stamp and still getting massive. We don't fertilise and although the ground is kept spotlessly clean 9 months of the year and it has had horses on for over 60 years. You would think it would be sick and tired of horses rather than hugely fattening. I haven't got a single horse that can have free range grazing.

 

[rabatsa]

Grass species have changed with selective breeding for fattening sheep/cattle. I do remember a pony in the village keeling over with a heart attack due to being obese over 50 years ago and ponies with laminitis. However getting laminitis was a death sentence for most ponies and there was not the social media telling everyone about it.