What's the best electric fencing that isn't mains fed?

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Ok my Loki is now living up to his name as every morning he has jumped or simply barged through my electric fencing to get into the middle paddock - the grass is apparenlty greener on the other side :rolleyes:

It's not a huge issue at the end of the day but I do worry he'll get himself caught up in the electric tape or impale his silly backside on a pole. Today he actually must have got caught as the tape had snapped.

The energiser thing I've got was a second hand one from my sister and is run on 2 big batteries - they look like DDs? As ever I think she paid over the odds for it as it cost her about £90 and is not very powerful :( It gives you a shock but it's not a big shock.

I think I need something a bit more powerful to detter the menace cob from blasting through it so can you please reccomend me a decent one that won't break the bank?

It can't be a mains fed one as we have no way of connecting it out in the back of beyond :cool:

ETA: he has loads of grass in the paddock he's supposed to be in and he has company in there too :)
 
My pony is an escape artist too! We just have tape on the top and half down the poles and electric fencing hooked up to a caravan battery. It's a big shock but obviously not something that will hurt for very long or kill him. He hasn't been able to get out since. The only time he has gotten out is when the battery was running low and could do with being charged but that is about once a month.
 
Hungey said:
My pony is an escape artist too! We just have tape on the top and half down the poles and electric fencing hooked up to a caravan battery. It's a big shock but obviously not something that will hurt for very long or kill him. He hasn't been able to get out since. The only time he has gotten out is when the battery was running low and could do with being charged but that is about once a month.
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Menaces the lot of them! ;)
Thank you!
Where would I get one from and how much roughly would I be looking at paying do you think? Would a car battery work as well? My mum was saying her friend could give us a couple of them. One for each paddock :)

We've got the red cable for attaching to the tape and green cable to earth it (luckily they come off the rubbish one!) so would I just use these or do I need to get new ones of those too?
 
sandi_84 said:
Menaces the lot of them! ;)
Thank you!
Where would I get one from and how much roughly would I be looking at paying do you think? Would a car battery work as well? My mum was saying her friend could give us a couple of them. One for each paddock :)

We've got the red cable for attaching to the tape and green cable to earth it (luckily they come off the rubbish one!) so would I just use these or do I need to get new ones of those too?
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There all menaces but you have to love them! :rolleyes: Yes car batteries would be fine. I have a red cable attaching to the fence and a green cable that attached to a piece of metal that is in the ground (A metal pole to conduct the electricity) and then a red and black wire attached to the battery itself that's connected to a pulser.
 
I use a Hotline Gemini HLC 120 - it has an output of 1.2 joules and gives a good zap. I run it off an ordinary car battery. My horse is an escape artist and this is the best energiser I have found for keeping him where he is supposed to be! You can get them off eBay for around £100.
 
Hungey said:
There all menaces but you have to love them! :rolleyes: Yes car batteries would be fine. I have a red cable attaching to the fence and a green cable that attached to a piece of metal that is in the ground (A metal pole to conduct the electricity) and then a red and black wire attached to the battery itself that's connected to a pulser.
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Yes I suppose we do :rolleyes::p
We have our earth stakes in the ground connected by the green wire to the energiser thingy (I can never remember the name of it :rolleyes:) that has the batteries in it. Then the red wire goes from this to the electric tape.

Stupid question but what is a pulser? :o

Bertolie said:
I use a Hotline Gemini HLC 120 - it has an output of 1.2 joules and gives a good zap. I run it off an ordinary car battery. My horse is an escape artist and this is the best energiser I have found for keeping him where he is supposed to be! You can get them off eBay for around £100.
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Thanks, I'll go online and have a wee look at that :)
 
Stupid question but what is a pulser? :o


A pulser is the box that you can use to turn the electric fence on and off.
 
Hungey said:
Stupid question but what is a pulser? :o


A pulser is the box that you can use to turn the electric fence on and off.
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Aha! ha ha! thank you! ;) Right I've just been on the phone to my local industrial supplier and asked for prices on electric fence units that I could run off a car battery and was told that the car battery would run down overnight? :rolleyes: He then told me I'd be looking at over £100 for a unit + nearly £100 for a leisure battery to run it off..... Is he taking the mick trying to get me to shell out more money? :cool:
 
No that's correct.

My energiser arrived today. Paid £100 for it and looking at leisure batteries, going to have to fork out a minimum of around £75 for a decent one.
 
sandi_84 said:
Aha! ha ha! thank you! ;) Right I've just been on the phone to my local industrial supplier and asked for prices on electric fence units that I could run off a car battery and was told that the car battery would run down overnight? :rolleyes: He then told me I'd be looking at over £100 for a unit + nearly £100 for a leisure battery to run it off..... Is he taking the mick trying to get me to shell out more money? :cool:
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As I said I run mine off ordinary car batteries (that I bought from a local scrap yard for £10 each). I have two batteries so always have one on charge and one on the fencing. A fully charged battery will last me approx. one week before I need to change it over and I never let them run down fully before charging them up. A leisure battery would probably last a fair bit longer but will also cost you more!
 
If you can bear to shell out a bit more money, a solor panel the size of an A4 sheet (ish) will trickle charge s leisure batter enough to hardly ever have to mains charge it. I think you can get the solar panels for about £30 off ebay.
 
Thanks everyone!
I'm going to cadge a couple of car batteries off my mum's best friend... well he did offer! ;) and I'll continue to use the rubbish one we've got for the side they tend not to jump/barge and a car battery for the other side and one on charge for swapping about purposes :D

Got to the field after the sharer had left and yep they were all in the middle paddock again :rolleyes: decided to just submit to the inevitable for now and leave them where they are until it's time to move them again :rolleyes:

Now to save up the pennies for the new energiser :rolleyes:
 
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