Anybody got any experience with these? I've got one installed, but I've got a bad place somewhere and have no idea how to find it. I installed this one myself with a spade (enclosed about 1.5 acres). Anybody got any ideas on how to find my bad place? It's not broke b/c I can turn the juice up and it works fine for awhile, I believe it's jumping the bad place with more juice. Second question, I'm going to have to install a new wire sooner or later, I'm thinking of buying an edger to do it. Better ideas?
Turn the collar down to real low. At your "bad" spot the collar will probably not even beep or shock. I have used in ground electric fences for about 10 years and on three different properties. One thing remained constant....for some reason or another there always seems to be spots where the electric line consistently misfires or is thrown off by something. One of my old dogs used to jump a very specific spot in the electric fence. The spot was about 10 feet wide. I had to put stakes in the ground and put the fence at about two to three feet off the ground. I didn't care what it looked like as I could not have my dogs running the neighborhood.
Well, if you got a break in the connection, the fense will not work at all Easiest approach is to run one wire from your transmitter half way and cut, that way you have isolated the break to half the fence. Then run the same wire to half of the "bad" section. Fix that, and on and on.
Just use a no-contact DC voltage/current detector and turn the voltage down as stated above. When you get to the bad spot you probably will lose detection. (Maybe)
Interesting ideas, I'll def. try all those. I bought a edger tonight to install a new fence. I'll go ahead and bury another line beside the one I got and when the other one fnally dies I'll just plug in the new one.
