Hilltop
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Who makes the most powerful electric fencers?? Who makes the best fencer? We have a Gallager M1800 but sure does not seem to be able to keep pumping out the juice when it gets wet grass touching it.
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SWMO
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Call Tru-Test and have them get you in touch with one of their field Reps. It is possible that your grounding set up is not sufficient for your charger. www.tru-test.com
hamburgman
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Our fencer burns growing grass that touches it, nice brown valley of grass where the hot wire runs.
OH Breeder
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SWMO said:
I met with them at one of our Expo's. I have the Speed Rite charger. IT is good when it is working. But it is very sensitive to the ground. I gave 275 for it. I miss the old chargers you could ground to a fence post and they would light you up if you got near them.
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JTM
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What is your M1800 reading when the grass is wet? If it is still about 3.0 Khv then you should still be o.k. If it is below that you may have another problem somewhere. I have the same problem with my M1000 when the grass gets high because we have 6 hot strands going around at about 13,000 ft. The M1000 is still powerful enough to work well even with several shorts and wet grass. You should have a minimum of three 6 ft. grounding rods for that charger, that may be your problem if the ground wire isn't well grounded.
Hilltop
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I put 3 10ft ground rods in when we built all our fence and we are only getting about 2 or 2.1 now. We have a lot of connections but all of them are clamped and we have wire buried under all gates. Tomorrow I am going to check all connections and see what I can find. Must be something I am missing!JTM said:
