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Check your installation to ensure that it complies
with all local safety regulations.
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Do not connect simultaneously to a fence and to
any other device such as a cattle trainer or a
poultry trainer. Otherwise, lightning striking your
fence will be conducted to all other devices.
Safe electric fence construction
Warning!
Read before use.
An electric fence can be hazardous when there is a risk
of entrapment or entanglement, or other hazards exist.
Serious injury or death may result. Take all steps to
avoid the risk of entrapment or entanglement.
Hazards
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Do not climb through or under an electric fence. If it
is necessary to cross an electric fence use a gate or
specially designed crossing point.
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Do not allow young or infirm persons to use this unit
without supervision. Do not allow young children to
play with this unit or near an electric fence or
electrified wires.
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Do not electrify barbed wire.
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Do not support off-set electrified wires less than 6”
(150 mm) from a barbed wire fence.
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Do not electrify any fence construction which could
lead to entanglement of persons or animals. We
recommend for instance, that no more than one
electrified off-set wire be supported on either side of
a barbed wire or mesh fence.
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Do not supply an electric fence from two units.
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Do not allow electrified wires from two units on the
same or adjacent properties to be less than 6’6”
(2 m) apart.
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Do not place the unti’s ground electrode within 33’
(10 m) of any part of a power supply ground system
or telecommunications ground system.
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Do not run electric fence wires above or close to
overhead power or communication lines.
Duty to the public
A warning sign shall be fitted to every point where
persons may gain ready access to the conductors.
Where an electric animal fence crosses a public
pathway, a non-electrified gate shall be incorporated
in the electric animal fence at that point or a crossing
by means of stiles shall be provided. At any such
crossing, the adjacent electrified wires shall carry
warning signs.
Any part of an electric animal fence that is installed
along a public road or pathway shall be identified at
frequent intervals by warning signs securely fastened
to the fence posts or firmly clamped to the fence wires.
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The size of the warning sign shall be at least
4x8” (100x200 mm).
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The background colour of both sides of the
warning sign shall be yellow. The inscription on
the sign shall be black and shall be either:
or the substance of “CAUTION: Electric fence”.
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The inscription shall be indelible, inscribed on
both sides of the warning sign and have a height
of at least 1” (25 mm).
Definition of special terms
Unit/Charger/Energizer
– An appliance that is intended
to periodically deliver voltage impulses to a fence
connected to it.
Fence
– A barrier for animals or for the purpose of
security, comprising one or more conductors such as
metal wires, rods or rails.
Electric fence
– A barrier which includes one or more
electric conductors, insulated from ground, to which
electric pulses are applied by a unit.
Ground electrode
– Metal structure that is driven into
the soil near a unit and connected electrically to the
Fence ground terminal of the unit, and that is
independent of other grounding arrangements.
Connecting lead
– An electric conductor, used to
connect the unit to the electric fence or the ground
electrode.