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Can I use a GFCI

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Not Ben Frankli

02-15-2005 18:26:24




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Will a GFCI work with an electric fencer or will it trip when anything touches the fence?




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jdemaris

02-15-2005 20:13:06




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 Re: Can I use a GFCI in reply to Not Ben Franklin, 02-15-2005 18:26:24  
Yes, it will work fine.



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Charles (in GA)

02-15-2005 19:25:24




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 Re: Can I use a GFCI in reply to Not Ben Franklin, 02-15-2005 18:26:24  
I think it will (why not give it a try, at $7-$10 its not a lot)

Don't elect fence units use a transformer to make the current sent out the fence? In this case, the AC line current is powering the transformer all the time, and there is no current loss to ground. The current loss to ground (causing the shock) is the output of the transformer, which merely exerts a load on the incoming AC from the GFCI, but doesn't cause an imbalance that trips the GFCI.

Charles

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txblu

02-17-2005 04:54:45




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 Re: Can I use a GFCI in reply to Charles (in GA), 02-15-2005 19:25:24  
I agree with Charles. The GFCI is for ground currents in "primary" circuits. The fence windings are a "secondary" circuit totally isolated from the power line primary portion by the insulation of the transformer.....hence the name "isolation" transformer like a 120 - 120 isolation transformer would be no step up or step down, just isolation. Used these before the advent of GFCI for the same purpose. Course you could still get shocked, but you had to get between the two wires of the output, not one wire and earth ground..... unless you earth grounded the low side of the secondary.

I like to think of it as carrying around an AC battery...if there were such a thing.

Mark

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Pitch

02-16-2005 18:37:18




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 Re: Can I use a GFCI in reply to Charles (in GA), 02-15-2005 19:25:24  
I have a short fence around my fruit trees that I plug in to a GF outlet and I don't have a problem wiith it.



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