Fence Charger Out Put

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I built 3/4 mile of electric fence. It is 4 strains of 12 1/2 gage high tensil smooth wire. One of the strains is a ground wire. I have a 15 joul output zareba wasp charger that is charging the fence. I have one ground bed that contains 3- 8' 5/8 inch ground rods spaced 10' apart that is at the charger itself. Then i have another ground bed just like this one 1300' on down the fence. One of the 4 wires connects the two ground beds. And then i also have another ground bed seperate from these two for a lighting diverter.

Now here is my question and i know i can call customer support to find this out but they are not open right now so i wont be able to do that until Monday morning. But anyway when i checked the voltage on the fence it is reading about 7.5 kv avgerage. Is that about the right voltage or should it be higher ?
 
Well it will really pop calves good. Now when my bull got into it he was bugeling sort of like an elk to the honeys across the fence and he sort of went "ug" in the middle of that bugeling and it sort of sounded like he got hit in the chest with a baseball bat at the same time. :D But instead of running off like the calves did. He just stood there like a statue for a few minutes. But he is staying out of it.

I just did not know exactly how much voltage i should be reading on the fence. The tester i am using has arrows to show any current that is running to ground and i am losing about 3 amps somewhere but i can not find where it is getting grounded at ? And it is only doing that on the first 500' of fence.
 

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