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Start with at least 3 ground rods in a row at least the length of the rod apart. All connected with one continous piece of wire. No splices if you can help it. You may need more ground rods in dry periods. You do not need 5 hot wires on an existing fence. Just one or two will do fine if you have a hot charger and you keep the hot wire off the fence. A solar charger is not near as hot as an AC charger. If you buy a solar, buy a 12 volt vs a 6 volt. The ground system is the most important part of the fence!!!! No ground, no shock!!!! Use wire and not rope or tape. Power flows on the outside of the wire. Read a Gallager or Kencove manual before and do exactly what it says and you will be fine. Kencove.com has lots of great ideas and tips. I have been a fence contractor for over 17 years and have built many miles of electric and other types of Ag, residential , and commercial fence.

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I was considering if tape or rope was a plan, but leaning toward wire. I'm a little concerned about keeping up enough tension to keep the wire off the existing fence. I've got an idea where I want to put the ground rods too~ low shaded area that stays pretty moist all year round. But thats past the point where I would like to start the fence. Can I put the ground rods in further out than where the hot wires start?

Wire conducts electricty much better than the rope or tape that has the tiny filiments. Use the largest smooth wire you can. Do not use barbwire. Every place barbwire or some "barbless" wire is wraped or twisted together there is a possible short. Alum wire conducts electricity better than just about anything but is not very strong. Put the ground rods close to the charger if you can. Don't forget to space the 6 or 8 ft rods 10 ft apart or so. If you have to, you can put the ground system away from the charger but you need to connect the ground rods to the ground side of the charger with a fairly heavy copper wire. It should be bare copper like comes from your electric meter to the grould. Do not use the same ground as for you house or anything else. Build a seperate ground for the charger. The ground on your charger should be at least 50 ft away from any other ground system.

It does not really matter where you put the charger and ground rods if you don't put a ground near other ground systems. You can put the charger and ground in the middle of the run as long as you have AC to power it. Like others have said , the bigger the better. I have seen to many times someone used a charger just big enough to do the job. Wrong, More joules bigger shock, bigger shock registers in the memory better.

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