bc said: (quoted from post at 13:52:05 04/08/10) This brings a couple questions to mind for 36coupe and others regarding the hook up.
I use a 2 wire system around the corral and pasture. Both wires are hooked to the hot wire from the charger. At the end of the run, I have the two wires tied together again so it is a complete round circuit. It works but is that the correct way to do it?
On one wire towards the end of the run on the other side of the barn, I stripped the end of a spark plug wire and hung a spark plug from the wire. I spread the gap on the plug fairly wide and wrapped some baling wire around the base of the spark plug and stuck the other end in the ground. I can hear it zapping from the house and sometimes can see the spark at night so I can tell it is working. Just wondering if this is affecting the charge on the fence any since I am technically grounding it out there? The wires still measure a charge going through them.
I would like to rig up some kind of light that can be seen a few hundred yards so I can tell the fence is charging. Any ideas?
bc, using the spark plug (any kind of gap, be it plug or not) sets the upper voltage limit of your wire. As the voltages rises from zero toward its peak value, it reaches a voltage that will arc across your gap. Once the arc is established, the voltage can rise no higher & in fact is quickly quenched by the low resistance conductivity of the plasma in the arc. This depletes the energy of the charger and drops the voltage.....essentially the arc is the end of that jolt on the fence. That voltage limit my be perfectly high enough, however. There are little pocket testers sold which use a high resistance in series with a neon discharge lamp/bulb. These are cheap, have one wire for user to stick in the ground & then touch the bulb/resistor holder to hot wire & lamp flashes with fence. This won't put much of a drain on the fence.
P.S. 36 coupe, thanks for response regarding my capacitor question.
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