Your Questions About Installing Solar Powered Electric Fence
Robert asks…
I have been the proud owner of a solar powered fence for the last 2 years. Until I brought my yearling home. He ran right through it. My husband went out and checked my fence, It has no juice in it. Lights flashing, all these years?? was it working or not?? we tested it when I first installed it, worked fine. Didn’t have an issue till now. So I want to replace my fence….Does anyone recommend anything??? Is solar a waste of money or do you think it just might have been struck by lightning, what are the signs? or should i just buy the energizer( the other question about electric fences) and install a real electric fence, if so what do you recommend for yearlings. Any answers would be a great help. My best friend usually deals with my questions like this. (I am not a farmer by any means) But he sadly passed away in March. God I wish he were hear. I know he’d have a lot to say.
Thank you for taking the time to read.
Lucky
Henry Dover answers:
I use solar. It can have a varying charge depending on weeds growing up through the fence or bird poop on the solar cells. We check the fence very often. It has a meter on it that tells us how much current is being applied or if it’s not hot. You may have a bad cell . Our fence has a serious ground wire made of copper that’s buried in the ground according to specs for this purpose, so it’s not affected by lightning. But we did have a yearling that walked through it. We use 4 strands [we have youngsters and this is enough of a barrier to be safe for them and most always contain them] of a rope type with a copper wire wound through it and not all 4 are charged. So we had to reconfigure the charged wires so that one ran right across the chest area of the yearling as we found that that wire was not a live one and he wasn’t touching the others as he rolled through. This stopped the yearling immediately as the chest high wire is the one he’d touch with his nose and once it was zapped, that was it for him.
I got the fence from ElectroBraid. It is easy to install and reasonable to buy. Even with the fence off, it can’t be run through and won’t cut. A horse can get out if the juice is off by crawling between the ropes, but it takes effort and the adults don’t bother, nor will they graze through it even when it’s off. It has an intermittent zap instead of a solid one, which really impacts the horse but lets it go also. I have had it now for about 10 years.
Richard asks…
I have to wire solar DC photovoltaic panels and have always used at least an 8 gauge wire. Recently, I installed a solar electric fence and they recommended special electric fence wire that can handle 10,000 volts. It looks aluminum. The fence techs told me copper is only rated for 600 volts. And the power will leak through the insulation. They also say copper will corrode and created insulated spots. Does this mean that aluminum doesn’t corrode and is it superior to copper? Is is all a lobbying scam to force us to buy copper? Can I use the electric fence wire in my solar wiring?
Thank you everyone for your help!
Yes I do use copper for the PV array for household use. The electric fence has it’s own solar panel and is a separate system. It is weird and very different from the usual wiring. The 10,000 volts does have a low amperage or it would kill the animals I am sure. The piece I had to buy with insulation goes underground or on the ground to connect the grounds and to connect different fence components without grounding out the charged fence at the wrong places. (Or even to the water trough to shock the animals when they drink, as it is always nice and wet around that spot) But yes I was amazed that this was aluminum and not copper. I can’t imagine it would be something other than aluminum but it is expensive. It looks to be about an 8 gauge solid and is hard to work with. The insulation is white covered with black, not sure what it is but evidently rated for 10,000 volts. The actual fence wire is the plastic strings wound with thin aluminum strands
Henry Dover answers:
The fence tech advise is wrong. Copper can withstand still higher voltage and there is no limitation at all. The limitation of sustainable voltage only depends on the thickness of insulation and its dielectric strength. Perhaps, the fence tech told you that that particular wire israted for 600 V, it may be true.
The use of copper and aluminium depends on your economy only and the atmosphere to which it is exposed. Normally in both copper and aluminium hanged in atmosphere (fence application) both are inert to atmosphere, both creates a oxide layer which inhibits further corrossion.
In some high power wiring the power loss in aluminium wire become perhaps significant comparred to the economy. So you will have to use copper.
One advantaeg of coper is, it can be drawn to fine wire and so more releable if used as stranded wire. But aluminium is difficcult to draw into fine wires and if used as solid, more prone to break. (This is applicable to copper also.)
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