uplandnut
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Hoping one or more of you gentlemen can enlighten me on a fencer issue I have been having. Somehow I have had a current find it's way into one of my automatic waterer, that sits 30 feet away?
Daughter noticed it the other day when she was cleaning the tank. Stuck her hand into the water and got a couple shocks, unplugged the fencer and was able to finish cleaning the tank without further incident. When I came home I plugged the fencer back in to see if it would do it again and nothing? My daughter got home from milking and seeing the fencer was on stuck her hand in it as well, nothing.
This explains the reason the horses have acted funny at times by the waterer, but in the past no one has been able to get a shock out of the water?
The waterer is 30 feet from the fencer, no hot wires any closer than 20 feet, closest point of contact would be the ground rods which are no closer than 15 feet to the water line at the closest. The waterer is the 2nd on in a series of 2, the other one has never had any issues that anyone has noticed, cows never made a fuss, nor the horses currently drinking out of it. is it possible that the fencer is back feeding into the ground rods and they are able to transfer the voltage through the ground into the waterer? It's about the only thing I can think of. Fencer is a Zareba 100 mile fencer, was rebuilt about 2 winters ago. Looking for ideas as it is not consistent so troubleshooting is kind of a bugger.
Thanks for any suggestions
Daughter noticed it the other day when she was cleaning the tank. Stuck her hand into the water and got a couple shocks, unplugged the fencer and was able to finish cleaning the tank without further incident. When I came home I plugged the fencer back in to see if it would do it again and nothing? My daughter got home from milking and seeing the fencer was on stuck her hand in it as well, nothing.
This explains the reason the horses have acted funny at times by the waterer, but in the past no one has been able to get a shock out of the water?
The waterer is 30 feet from the fencer, no hot wires any closer than 20 feet, closest point of contact would be the ground rods which are no closer than 15 feet to the water line at the closest. The waterer is the 2nd on in a series of 2, the other one has never had any issues that anyone has noticed, cows never made a fuss, nor the horses currently drinking out of it. is it possible that the fencer is back feeding into the ground rods and they are able to transfer the voltage through the ground into the waterer? It's about the only thing I can think of. Fencer is a Zareba 100 mile fencer, was rebuilt about 2 winters ago. Looking for ideas as it is not consistent so troubleshooting is kind of a bugger.
Thanks for any suggestions