Electric Fence controller

It is 6" wide, 5" tall, and about 3" deep. There is a place for a wire that is marked with a red button wire holder, and a place for a wire with a black button wire holder. There is a red light that turns on when plugged in, and you can hear the box cycling on an off based on the clicking noise from inside the unit.

Do I take my wire and run it from the charger's red button, around the pasture, and loop back to the black button? Or do I run the wire from the red button and just end it somewhere, and run a seperate wire from the black button to a gound?

Thanks for answering what is most likely a foolish question.

Electrical feed back is serious busness and comes from combining all such some services to a single rod. A deffernent NO NO!

Couple suggestions: Establish grtound rod (at least the first one? under a building"s eve for the waters help to ground the fence ground. @nd, I auger holes as deep as I may with 2" auger. To that depth I add ten feet and drive used 1/2" galv water pipes.

Use what ever this helps. Keeps our Shorthorns in.
My Say.
Fernan

If the cattle are not used to electric fence it would be a good idea to run some in the area they are in now and let them learn that it bites and not to mess with it. Run some part way across the middle of the field so they have to encounter it and learn to go around it. It should only take a few days to learn the lesson.
Good luck,
Tom

Also, no one has mentioned that you shouldn't run a live fence wire through a hole in the barn wall, nor should a fence wire be located too close to the barn wall. Reason being, some fencers (Weedburners) produce enough heat to actually start a fire.

I've seen many fencers located under the eaves, on the outside of structures. Typically not on the barn either, usually on some less expensive building that has electric service.

Make sense?

Connect the red terminal to the insulated fence wire. If lightning is common in your area, use a lightning arrestor between the fence charger and the fence. There is a terminal on those that needs to be connected to the ground system, also.

Here's a link to helpful electric fence information:

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