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Help and tips for common electric fence questions

Electric fence

Tips for earthing (grounding) an electric fence system

Earthing (grounding) an electric fence system

Increase the flow of the energy through your electric fence by installing parallel wires

Installing parallel electric fence wires

Use joint clamps to transfer energy from your electric fence to multiple fence wires or to the underground cable.

Installing joint clamps

A cut-out switch allows you to isolate areas of your electric fence

Installing a cut-out switch

Setup an effective termination of your electric fence with end strain insulators

Installing end strain insulators

Pair your new or existing remote with an energizer

Pairing a remote with an energizer

Stop steel gates from conducting energy off your electric fence

Eliminating induction on steel gates

Electric fence fault finders isolate issues that may be affecting your electric fence's performance

Using an electric fence fault finder

Building an electric fence

Understand the basic electric fence terms in a quick explainer video

Electric fence technical terms to know

Watch a video to learn how to install your PE2, PE5 or PE10 series energizer (charger)

Installing a Patriot PE series energizer

If you are having problems with your Patriot electric fence or energizer, use the information below to help diagnose the issue

Troubleshooting your Patriot electric fence and energizer

Set up a proper ground system for your electric fence to work

Grounding and testing an electric fence

Commonly asked questions relating to electric fence installation and troubleshooting

Frequently asked questions

Building an electric fence (North America)

Using connected energizers with the Datamars Livestock mobile app

If you have a 31000W, 46000W or 86000W connected energizer, you should migrate to the Datamars Livestock platform

Overview - migrating from the Farm Management app to Datamars Livestock

You need to set up Datamars Livestock for use with connected energizers

Setting up Datamars Livestock for use with connected energizers

You need to register connected energizers to your Datamars Livestock farm.

Adding connected energizers to your farm

If you are using an optional remote control with your connected energizer, you need to programme them so that they can communicate.

Programming a connected energizer to communicate with a remote control

Before you start using connected energizers with Datamars Livestock mobile app

We recommend naming a connected energizer in Datamars Livestock so that you can easily identify each energizer on the farm.

Changing the name of a connected energizer

You can change the energizer's target output voltage, warning voltage and critical voltage thresholds.

Setting energizer voltage thresholds

You can switch notifications on or off for a particular energizer.

Turning notifications on/off for a particular energizer

You can change the Wi-Fi network your energizer is connected to.

Changing the Wi-Fi network an energizer is connected to

You can remove a connected energizer from the Datamars Livestock farm if it is no longer required.

Removing a connected energizer from the farm

Configuring connected energizers with the Datamars Livestock mobile app

You can view the status of your energizers at a glance.

Viewing the status of energizers

Use the Datamars Livestock mobile app to turn a connected energizer ON/OFF (Standby)

Turning an energizer ON/OFF (Standby)

If you are having problems with your electric fence or energizer, diagnose the issue using the information below.

Troubleshooting - Electric fence/Energizer

There are some things to consider when setting up a Wi-Fi network for use with connected energizers.

Considerations when setting up a Wi-Fi network for use with connected energizers

FAQ/Troubleshooting - Connected energizers with the Datamars Livestock mobile app

Find out which parts are included with your 31000W, 46000W or 86000W mains energizer.

Unboxing a 31000W, 46000W or 86000W mains energizer

Learn how to mount a 31000W, 46000W or 86000W mains energizer

Mounting a 31000W, 46000W or 86000W mains energizer

Energizers

Fence monitoring

You can monitor different points of the fence in real time, giving you peace of mind knowing that your livestock or crops are secure.

What is a fence monitoring solution?

This is how the fence monitoring system works in practice.

How does fence monitoring work?

Before you start

Learn how to to set up a fence monitoring gateway

Setting up the gateway

After you have installed the gateway, you need to pair it with the fence nodes

Pairing nodes to the gateway

Learn how to physically install fence nodes on the electric fence

Installing nodes on the electric fence

Setting up a fence monitoring system

Learn how to use the Datamars Livestock apps with your fence monitoring solution

Using the Datamars Livestock apps

You can change the way you receive notifications and the types of notifications you receive.

Changing notifications

Using the fence monitoring solution

You can modify the default voltage thresholds for nodes on your farm.

Changing the default voltage thresholds for notifications (administrators only)

You can override the default voltage thresholds and notifications for a particular fence node.

Changing the voltage thresholds and notifications for a particular node (administrators only)

The farm owner or manager needs to send an invitation to all staff using the fence monitoring solution.

Inviting users to your farm in Datamars Livestock (administrators only)

Configuring the system (administrators only)

Try these solutions if you have a problem with your fence monitoring system.

Troubleshooting - fence monitoring

Find out what the LED lights on the Fence Monitoring gateway and nodes mean

Troubleshooting - fence monitoring LED lights

If animals are interfering with a fence node, a piece of electrified wire can be added to the node to act as a deterrent.

Creating an animal deterrent wire for a fence node

You may want to reset a fence node or gateway to default settings and remove them from your farm.

Resetting a fence node or gateway and removing them from a farm

FAQ/Troubleshooting

If you are using an optional remote control with your energizer, you need to programme them so that they can communicate.

Programming an energizer to use with a remote control

Try these solutions if you are having trouble with your Remote Control Fault Finder

Troubleshooting - Remote Control

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