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Central ND | If in doubt, check to see how the fence snaps to a grounded surface or grounding wire against the hot wire. Sometimes going old school checking helps solve real world problems with us using those meters.
>>3 amps shows the amps drawn on the load. The arrow shows which direction the short is drawn from. When you are going along the fence and the arrow switches the other way, you have passed the shorted area its indicating. I doubt at 3 amps you even have a shorted fence. Insulators and grass all draw some load of amperage. 3 amps really isnt a big deal on a long fence. There is always going to be some amp draw unless you fence is only 130 foot long. The 5 amps show draw as well. If you are showing amps on the ground, you need more grounding capability (that shows the leakage between the fence charger and the ground earth.
Now those meters will pick up stray voltage on near by wires as well. If you have a doughnut insulator on a corner, the wife holding it to the wood post is induced with voltage and it will show voltage on those meters often too. | |
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Fault finding electric fence?
