electric fence lights

[I Hate SPAM]

I've just finished putting electric fence line around my property. There
are 3 lines of fence, and I want to put lights on one post so I can see
at a glance if any of the lines are broken or shorted. All I know about
the fence charger is that it's low impedance, puts out 11000 volts at
500 ohm load, max joules of 9.11, and has an on-time of less than 100
micro-seconds.

I'm not an electronics buff, but I follow directions well and I'm good
with a soldering iron.

Any ideas?

tia!

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[John Miller]

I Hate SPAM wrote:

I've just finished putting electric fence line around my property. There
are 3 lines of fence, and I want to put lights on one post so I can see
at a glance if any of the lines are broken or shorted. All I know about
the fence charger is that it's low impedance, puts out 11000 volts at
500 ohm load, max joules of 9.11, and has an on-time of less than 100
micro-seconds.

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Any ideas?

If you happen to have any small fluorescent tubes around, try taping one
along a fence wire (no electrical contact whatsoever) and see if you get
any action with the pulses.

I'm just guessing here...
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John Miller
Email address: domain, n4vu.com; username, jsm

It's hard to be humble when you're perfect.

 

[Beau Schwabe]

On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 01:30:03 GMT, John Miller <me@privacy.net> wrote:

I Hate SPAM wrote:
I've just finished putting electric fence line around my property. There
are 3 lines of fence, and I want to put lights on one post so I can see
at a glance if any of the lines are broken or shorted. All I know about
the fence charger is that it's low impedance, puts out 11000 volts at
500 ohm load, max joules of 9.11, and has an on-time of less than 100
micro-seconds.

snip
Any ideas?

If you happen to have any small fluorescent tubes around, try taping one
along a fence wire (no electrical contact whatsoever) and see if you get
any action with the pulses.

I'm just guessing here...
--
John Miller
Email address: domain, n4vu.com; username, jsm

It's hard to be humble when you're perfect.

Instead of "taping one along a fence wire", in the past I have
connected just one terminal of a fluorescent tube to the fence and
left the other terminal dangling.

Try a small neon bulb also might work.

-Beau Schwabe

 

[Terry Pinnell]

John Miller <me@privacy.net> wrote:

If you happen to have any small fluorescent tubes around, try taping one
along a fence wire (no electrical contact whatsoever) and see if you get
any action with the pulses.

I'm just guessing here...

Would a flash of only 100 us be plainly visible?

Dave: What is the pulse period? (For example, if you tie a cow to the
fence, how long are the intervals between its jumps? <g&gt


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Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK