12v battery fencer.

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My old battery fencer died (20 odd years old) last Spring during the cold weather. My brother who is knowledgeable about electronic things had a look at it and couldn't fix it.

Any recommendations for an affordable 12v battery fencer to cover 22 acres on the out farm. A solar fencer is of no use as the outfarm is a North facing hill and we only put cattle on it during the Autumn/Winter.

We will have to add a second wire to the fence as the next door neighbour planted trees on some of his land during the Summer and I'm fearful of the weanlings breaking out into it.
Edit - we use either a lorry or tractor battery to power the fence so the source of power isn't a problem.

orm0nd

http://irishsales.ie/?product=lacme-dual-d4-fencer-battery-mains (about 2 weeks back order)

http://cheetah.ie/product/hv12-battery-fencer/

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Are Cheetah the same company as Cheta. I think they were based in Wexford. Only reason that I'm asking is cause I bought a Cheta mains fencer in 1986 and it is still working to this day in my place in NCD.

A picture that I took of it a few minutes ago -

tellmeabit

Have the green cheat fencer last few year. Only problem I has was when I put it in a manure bag to protect it. They fixed it and told me it has to hang straight off a pole. No problem since. Old car battery powering it. Only charge it couple times a year. Until winter.

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tellmeabit wrote: »

Have the green cheat fencer last few year. Only problem I has was when I put it in a manure bag to protect it. They fixed it and told me it has to hang straight off a pole. No problem since. Old car battery powering it. Only charge it couple times a year. Until winter.

The manure bag probably trapped moisture into the unit and that caused it to fail.

orm0nd

Base price wrote: »

Are Cheetah the same company as Cheta. I think they were based in Wexford. Only reason that I'm asking is cause I bought a Cheta mains fencer in 1986 and it is still working to this day in my place in NCD.

A picture that I took of it a few minutes ago -

In carlow afaik, they do repairs to all brands , might be worth asking about your own one


there is an awful wallop off that 1 listed above it's a different sort of pulse and would put manners on most stock , only problem it'ds very severe on batteries
and would need to checked very often

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orm0nd wrote: »

In carlow afaik, they do repairs to all brands , might be worth asking about your own one

Yep thats the same company. I remember posting them the innards of another larger fencer that got burned out by an lighting strike during a storm in the late 80's. They returned it and only charged for the postage

satstheway

Got 2 Cheetah b1 11 here. Need to check but i think they are b1 11.
Got them running on car battries with 35w solar panels and charge controller.

1 was out all last winter and i forgot to turn it off and its still battering away. A big enough solar panel and it wont matter if its not pointing at sun.

Great shock of them

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satstheway wrote: »

Got 2 Cheetah b1 11 here. Need to check but i think they are b1 11.
Got them running on car battries with 35w solar panels and charge controller.

1 was out all last winter and i forgot to turn it off and its still battering away. A big enough solar panel and it wont matter if its not pointing at sun.

Great shock of them

Ah don't start me on solar panels, charge controllers and all that stuff. I'm trying to get my head around it after watching on from Patsy's post of this fella
https://youtu.be/SuskBpOiTtI

satstheway

Base price wrote: »

Ah don't start me on solar panels, charge controllers and all that stuff. I'm trying to get my head around it after watching on from Patsy's post of this fella
https://youtu.be/SuskBpOiTtI

LOL you may go back to barbed wire if you cant get it. Its this simple.

tellmeabit

Base price wrote:

The manure bag probably trapped moisture into the unit and that caused it to fail.

Yep that's what they said. If it's hanging the moisture won't get in. Nearly cost me price of new one to fix

TL17

Base price wrote:

Any recommendations for an affordable 12v battery fencer to cover 22 acres on the out farm. A solar fencer is of no use as the outfarm is a North facing hill and we only put cattle on it during the Autumn/Winter.

Hi Base Price
Just wondering how you got on with the fencer. What did you buy in the end. Did you get the solar panel. Need some thing similar my self and I not a bit technical

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TL17 wrote: »

Hi Base Price
Just wondering how you got on with the fencer. What did you buy in the end. Did you get the solar panel. Need some thing similar my self and I not a bit technical

I didn't buy one yet we're using one belonging to my brother.