36 coupe or other fence pros???

Anonymous-0 · Aug 9, 2011

Help me out with a brainstorm please or stop me before I ruin something.

Just got a couple metal fence charger boxes that have a place to fasten the 12 volt fencer so that the nuts are inside the battery compartment that is lockable. These aren't the fancy type that are set up with a key so that anyone without the key gets shocked when touching the box. However, and this is a two part question...

1st) After I get everything ogether and the battery in, can I ground the fencer ground terminal to the metal box then with another (heavier?) wire, ground the box to the actual grounding rod and still get the performance out of the charger?

2nd) If so, will this have the addedbenefit of whoever touches the box while the charger is on getting at least a tingle? This is not as important as being able to do as in the 1st question.

Thanks, Dave

hayray · Aug 9, 2011

If you ground the metal box to the ground poll of the energizer then you should not have current running through the box? I may be not understanding but are you implying that current from the energizer is running through a metal box that is housing the energizer? On my 12 volt units I tend to put them in the interior of the pasture and hide them so that you would have to try to get through the electric fence to get to them. I like the concept you are trying to do, please explain it a little more.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 9, 2011

You'd think I could find a pic of one..... Anyway, you'd normally run a wire from the ground terminal to the ground rod. What I want to do is run thewire and fasten it to the metal box mainly so it will be permanent because the parmak terminals are a real PITA. Then just run a wire from the box to the ground rod. This way, I have a complete unit ready to use wherever needed by just hooking a ground wire to a post. I'll take pics of what I have in the next day or so and post them.

Dave

hayray · Aug 9, 2011

As long as you have good connectivity then that probably will work but you are using a thin gauge metal box I assume and it may have disimilar metals at the connection. It is recommended you use at least a 12.5 gauge or larger for ground wire and that it be galvanized or copper but not connected to each other or use any disimilar metals in the connection. The better option is to run a wire along the metal box and leave a pig tail end that you can connect and disconect using a split bolt wire tap to connect the ground rod wire.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 9, 2011

That's what I'll do. Just use a heavy wire fasted to the box. Maybe get creative with a piece off the shocker terminal also til the first time I forget and grab it myself :shock:

Anonymous-0 · Aug 9, 2011

Here's alink to what I have. I'll just use your idea with the heavy gounnd wire.and use the ground rod to lock it to also.

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36 Coupe · Aug 9, 2011

Most ground wires and rods will shock if you touch them.Woman had a problem with a neighbor cutting the ground wire,It ruined the circuit board.She put the repaired charger in a place where you couldnt get near the charger without turning the power off.

hayray · Aug 9, 2011

I have another pasture where someone keeps turning off one of the cut off switchs and I think I will put a hot wire sticking out of the hole in the switch so they get shocked. Ticks me off when I go over there and a mile stretch of perimeter fence along a road is turned off. All you have to do is run some insulated lead out wire out of the box and then peel off the insulation and run bare wire on some insulators along the box.

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