Hello everyone, when I go to open the gate it shocks me. The shock is nothing crazy but enough to get your attention. When I use a voltage tester, I am reading 7,000 volts. I stuck a piece of 9 gauge galvanized wire about 18 inches into the ground at the base of the post and stapled it to each tied around line on the side of the post. When I did that, it cause the voltage to fall to 3,000 volts but it did not shock me when I would open the gate. Any ideas how to fix this issue.
by ConsiderationRich378
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I would assume that the hardware holding the gate onto the post is making contact with something hot inside the post, perhaps a staple or bolt. I suggest you remove the voltage from each row, adding it one at a time and test the gate, to figure out which strand is making contact. Then diagnose from there.
Definetly a jole nobybis this slow lol
Caused by the post being wet? Or is the other side of the fence attached to the metal building which is attached the other side of the gate.
Water in the post
Thats odd! Couple questions to clarify:
-Is the other side of the gate in contact with any metal?
-What kind of grounding rods do you have your fence power hooked into?
-Is the ground super wet/dry?
Wet wood, particularly treated wood (for which they use a copper solution), will conduct electricity, particularly when voltage is higher. If any part of a hot wire is touching any part of that H-brace, you’re going to get a current. Attaching a ground rod to the post is just giving the current a direction to go besides you, decreasing the amperage through you to a level you cannot feel it… but you’re “leaking” power through the ground rod. Or pouring it out, really. This will decrease the effectiveness of your fence and kill your battery if it’s operating on a solar/battery basis. It’s a waste of electricity if it’s a grid system.
Instead, make sure no part of the hot wire is touching the posts, brace, or binding wires. Your gate shouldn’t have a voltage on it. At all.
No insulator on the wire around the post. The ground and post are likely wet so the current is traveling through the moisture between your bolts and your wires. Put some insulators around the wire that touches the posts.
While it likely has something to do with the electric fence, there is also something called stray voltage, that can cause things not hooked up to power become energized. The source can be some distance away.
I would assume that you need insulators, but it has been a long time since I put up an electric fence.
Some of the diagonal strands appear to be touching the electric fence wire meaning you’re bypassing the insulators and transferring electricity to the wood post.
From there it could be the post is acting as a conductor especially because it probably soaks in water.
Induction. Run a ground wire from the center of the top your post down to the ground.
Thats definitely wild. It doesn’t appear to be connected at all to anything hot. Open the gate and see if the actual gate or the other side is energized . Going to have to isolate connections until you find the faulty connection lighting everything up.
If nothing is, might be a contact with wet ground. Grounding the gate could be putting it in series with the faulty point, dropping the voltage
Do you have powerlines overhead?
Whatever the wood was treated with is probably conductive/conductive when wet. Insulate the wires running around the post by running it through some rubber tubing or something along those lines.
What animal does this fence hold in? I ask because you may not need to have every wire hot to be effective. If you find the wire that is leaking into your post, just disconnect it from the current.
Just stop grabbing the gate
Piece of pond liner behind your tie off lines around the pole for the gate. There’s a bleed through somewhere. Have you tested the voltage to see if it full or just a bleed??
I need a picture that includes about 8 inches more to the tight.
I assume those are porcelain wire insulator, so that should keep your hot wire from charging your post. I’m guessing you grounded your hot wire to your angle stabilizer wire.
Yeah no fucking shit..
“I stuck a piece of 9 gauge galvanized wire about 18 inches into the ground at the base of the post and stapled it to each tied around line on the side of the post”
Why did you do that dumb shit? If you can’t understand this is why you’re getting shocked I don’t think you’re qualified to work around these types of things safely.