grass in hot wire

[herefordlover]

How much grass be for u start seeing a big drain on your fence. Have a 12 joul charger on 5 miles of 2strand fence and dont seem there can be any grass at all before it starts looseing voltage. Have 5 6foot ground rods and the ground is muddy. The charger is parmak rangmaster

 

[dun]

How much voltag does it lose? Wet grass, especially rained on wet is always more of a drain then dry grass. As long as it's above 5k volts at it's worset that will keep cows in, goats is a whole nother story.

 

[herefordlover]

Were looseing 4k in dryish grass

 

[dun]

I had a rangemster, got it when my 20 year ld Gallagher gave up the ghost, and it never put out acceptable voltage. Bought a M800 Gallagher and now I've getting proper volatge all the way to the end.

 

[herefordlover]

Were looking at an m 1000 as were going to be adding maybe 5 more likes of wire or u think need bigger yet. ?... Got the neighbors mr 5000 on ot now might be over kill

 

[dun]

Were looking at an m 1000 as were going to be adding maybe 5 more likes of wire or u think need bigger yet. ?... Got the neighbors mr 5000 on ot now might be over kill

Sorry, that's what ours is the 800 was the one that croaked.

 

[herefordlover]

There not cheap but rather be a tad over than under when its our main fence for half the cows

 

[Runaway Deere]

M1000 book said approximately 7 or so grounds..... Sure helps us in the valley, irrigated pasture, dry fence lines. My m100 even jumps porcelain insulators lately, and it's not even dew time

 

[tamarack]

Need a Gallagher they are the best IMO I have a old 800 that hasn't been shut off for 18 yrs and still puts out what it did new I just bought the 1800 for 2 more 1/4 sections of land I ran both water and underground wire through a culvert under a road the water line pulled apart and filled culvert I layed on my side in the wet and felt for the broken line found the wire instead guess it had rubbed a bare spot on side of culvert WOW does it work good.both fencers kill grass where it touches and it looses very little