Depending on where you are your grounding will differ. If I were out
west where the soil is dry a major part of the year, I'd run multiple
strans and ground a lower stran(s) so even if there is no absolute
ground contact with a live and ground strand would have the desired
effect.
To eliminate the potential of a ground wave from impacting your ground
you need three rods - at least 8 feet apart each. Better to have them
12 feet apart. The ground from the charger shoud be connected in series
to the three rods.
Most of the time in the East we can get away with two since by the time
you get to 8 feet down there is sufficient mosture. The code on the
power company delivering service is two 12 foot ground rods. Out west I
would not depend on that.
The one thing I would not do reccomend - particularly in FL, the
lightining capitol of the world, is to use anyting by a solar charger.
I kow more than one person that used a charger plugged into his
electrical serivce. Lightining hit his fence, came back trough his
charger into to the horse and took out his electronics - computer, TV,
etc. In the five years I have been living where I live I have had
lightining smoke a section of the electric stran I have on the top of
my fence. I have had the wire vaporized for 5 to 10 foot sections. I
have lost two solar chargers (even with two lightining supressors on
the fence) but it's stayed away from the expensive stuff.
Lightining will deliver a couple hundred million volts in a few
nanoseconds - nothing can stop that.
Truman
Ed & Wendy Hauser wrote:
That is probably the most neglected
part of the installation of an electric fence. Again Horseguard and
other fencer instructions have good diagrams and text on proper
grounding, you just have to read the instructions.
Ed
Ed & Wendy Hauser
2994 Mittower Road
Victor, MT 59875
