Installed an electric fence with (3) x 6' ground rods and not getting a good enough ground. The soil is sandy and dry. If I touch the chain link fence the insulators are attached to and grab the wire I get a big jolt. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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Try a sprinkler? Or moooooorrrrreeee voltage.
Sent from my new phone. Autocorrect may have changed stuff.
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Did you drive them straight down or at a 45 degree angle?
How do you know?
Unless you stand on the ground with bare feet (or wet footwear) and touch the energized wire, you cannot tell what a farm animal would experience.
Which could form an insulator, for your feet and the feet of any farm animal.
This shows that the chain link fence is effectively connected to the return path (Ground.)
Did you directly connect the fence to the Ground terminal or to the Ground Rods?
If not, it indicates that the metal chain link fence is effectively connected to the return path, via those Ground Rods.
Since you have a metal fence (presumably, with metal pole supports), you might as well use it as a part of your Ground/return path, since those metal poles will act as numerous Ground Rods.
One winders why you need an electric fence on a metal chain link fence.
It is quite disappointing, as so often happens, that the original poster does not come back in any reasonable time with any comment or result after others have given the best advice that they could (under the circumstances) for a possible answer to the question posed by the OP.
To quote Yoda, "Noticeable it is that such OP's very few posts have."
To quote Yoda, "Noticeable it is that such OP's very few posts have."
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@mcconnell, use your chain link posts as a grounding means. Tell us what charger you are using and post a picture of how you connected the insulators to the chain link fence. How did you handle any openings in the fence for continuity?
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