high tensile wire has short somewhere - need troubleshooting adv

if it was a short ,wouldn't the whole Fence 'act' the same?
my guess is under the gate also.
I would take a wire on some step in posts and connect the live fence to the dead and see what it does...if its cut under the fence and insulated and not in moist earth u should still get some juice.


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im going to suggest unhook the fence after the underground section and check for power right there. that will assure you if the buried part is shorted

Mink -- explain that a bit more, please. unhook?

I think they mean disconnect the underground feeder wire from the dead section of fence at the double gates.

I would suggest doing that, then running a temporary wire across the gate opening above ground and checking for voltage on the now dead part of the fence.

Oneokie,

Got it -- sounds like a good plan and easy place to start.

A couple of years ago, I threw some wood ashes from the wood stove through the high-tensile electric fence and didn't think anything of it.

A couple days (weeks?) later, the fence was completely shorted. No Juice, No Where! I walked that silly fence (fortunately only 1 acre) a dozen times trying to find a problem or fault or spark or broken wire or whatever! I had one of those 5-light testers and it lit up like crazy whever the fence was disconnected from the charger . . .

Finally, after several days of frustration, I found a burn, hair-thin segment of COPPER WIRE going from a hot wire to a metal T-posts. I'm guessing a piece of phone line or speaker wire got tossed in the stove . . .

Since then, I have invested in the Kencove Fence Compass. Like a few other things . . . I don't leave home without it

We need to know when you find it. It is always so obvious then. We have all been there and will be again. Good luck.

i was suggesting unhooking the underground cable on the far side of the gate and checking the far side for power to eliminate the underground being the problem.

Well, I think we've found one problem -- when the boys came to install another gate, they cut the wires and fixed the gate, but did NOT connect underground.

Think that might solve the problem??

$99 for Stafix fence compass and free shipping

http://www.kencove.com/fence/Voltmeters_detail_VPX.php

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