deerhunter
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Has anyone used a solar powered fencer and if so do they work for cattle or just small animals?
deerhunter":2smpyxwg said:Has anyone used a solar powered fencer and if so do they work for cattle or just small animals?
It probably is not going to provide much shock at 25 miles and probably does not take much load on the fence. I have a small Gallahger solar and it ran 1 strand of polywire on a 10 acre piece and that pretty much maxed it out, I could get about 6000 volts when the weather was warm, and 5000 volts in cold weather with a slow pulse. To equal the power of my M 1000 Gallagher it was going to run about $1000.00 for the solar panels, that is were the big expense comes in.shloh1981":122q7vhx said:The parmak charger is supposedly good for 25 miles of fencing..
How many acres are you running with this charger and do you know how much voltage is reads? Also, what was the price?shloh1981":3109uxgc said:I use a 6 volt parmak solar charger with just two strands of 17 gauge galvanized wire on several pastures that I lease from a neighbor. In two years I have never had an animal break lose and that includes my bull and several older cows who had never encountered electric fencing before. Here is a link to charger:
http://www.amazon.com/Parmak-DF-SP-LI-I ... B000BWZB74
Good luck!
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