Below are the instructions for installing your DogWatch System. The battery life on the RG1200 & R7
receiver collars = 6 months and on the R1200 & R8 = 2 years. Battery plans can be purchased from
DogFence, either on our web site or direct and a list of approved alternative batteries is listed in your
handbook.
DogWatch systems operate on a digitally encoded FM signal and are safe to use with any electrical or
radio equipment installed on your property.
Tips for Installation
:
Please read and then follow the installation instructions in conjunction with
the DVD supplied
.
Type of installations: There are many variations on the type of installation that your System can
achieve.
Single Cable – Entire Boundary
: The most popular installation is a single boundary cable
around the entire perimeter. This is the most secure system in terms of containment and usually
the easiest type of installation.
Banana Loop
– This type of installation is for a rear or front garden only or semi or terraced
property – remember when installing a banana loop the cables must be placed
at least 2ft apart
in areas where you require signal. Closing the cable together will deaden or greatly reduce the
signal.
Up and Over installation –
this is a 2
nd
option for customers with a semi or terraced property –
you can run the cable up the walls of your house, along the gutter and around the roof or up and
over the roof if you wish to achieve an entire boundary installation without using the banana loop
option. Do take into account though that where the cable runs up the wall you will receive a small
amount of signal internally and this may well affect your dog or cat if it a sleeping area of
passage way that they need to use.
Front or Single Boundary only –
similar to the banana loop, we often refer to this installation
as a “there and back system”. Again you must keep the cable a min of 2ft apart in areas where
you require signal. Closing the cables together will deaden or greatly reduce the signal.
The table below gives some illustrations.
Remember installing the cable in tubing or burying the cable DOES
NOT
REDUCE THE
SIGNAL.
The only way to deaden the signal is the twist the two cables together.
