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<blockquote data-quote="Bob-s" data-source="post: 1651139" data-attributes="member: 38134"><p>DB said "I traded the chargers out and the one reading negative and barely pushing anything works fine on the other fence. The new one does the same thing - barely a charge or reads negative."</p><p></p><p>Sounds like you have a short in your wire somewhere. Disconnect the positive side from the fence and take a reading. It should be high. If it is that indicates to me it has a short. Could be a bad insulator or more than one. I have a Ken Cove fence tester that shows the direction of the short (most of the time). Speedrite makes one , as do others. </p><p></p><p>Can you isolate the individual wires? That helps determine which wire has the short. I have a lot of electric fence, permanent for pastures and temporary as well (some over 7 years like your temporary fence). Sometimes it is just a matter of walking it with a stick poking each insulator until the bad one shows up or I find the shorted wire.</p><p></p><p>Luckily I am 3+ years without feral pigs on my property since I installed electric fence just inside my barbed wire boundary fence. I am always checking those wires and sometime walking with a stick poking each insulator or finding it snagged on the barbed wire. It is sometime pretty easy to find but I've repeatedly walked the same stretch of fence and passed it up many times. Even with the fault finder working, sometime the problem is not obvious.</p><p></p><p>Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bob-s, post: 1651139, member: 38134"] DB said "I traded the chargers out and the one reading negative and barely pushing anything works fine on the other fence. The new one does the same thing - barely a charge or reads negative." Sounds like you have a short in your wire somewhere. Disconnect the positive side from the fence and take a reading. It should be high. If it is that indicates to me it has a short. Could be a bad insulator or more than one. I have a Ken Cove fence tester that shows the direction of the short (most of the time). Speedrite makes one , as do others. Can you isolate the individual wires? That helps determine which wire has the short. I have a lot of electric fence, permanent for pastures and temporary as well (some over 7 years like your temporary fence). Sometimes it is just a matter of walking it with a stick poking each insulator until the bad one shows up or I find the shorted wire. Luckily I am 3+ years without feral pigs on my property since I installed electric fence just inside my barbed wire boundary fence. I am always checking those wires and sometime walking with a stick poking each insulator or finding it snagged on the barbed wire. It is sometime pretty easy to find but I've repeatedly walked the same stretch of fence and passed it up many times. Even with the fault finder working, sometime the problem is not obvious. Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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