electric fence energizer

JJT

Member
BASE UK Member
Location
Cumbria
Needing a new electric fence energizer, quite fancy one with a remote that you can turn the fence off with when your away down the field fixing etc. Narrowed it down to a Gallagher M1800i and a Speedrite/PEL 415i both similar money. Anyone any comments on which one to go for or not go for? Or any other make worth looking at?

Cheers Joe

Edit to say, just a mains one needed not a battery powered one.
 

serf

Member
Location
warwickshire
Needing a new electric fence energizer, quite fancy one with a remote that you can turn the fence off with when your away down the field fixing etc. Narrowed it down to a Gallagher M1800i and a Speedrite/PEL 415i both similar money. Anyone any comments on which one to go for or not go for? Or any other make worth looking at?

Cheers Joe

Edit to say, just a mains one needed not a battery powered one.
Don't know ins and out of the remote on /off and price built in , didn't even know they made them but a while ago I was going to get a wifi plug for same purpose (not got round to it yet) depends if you have WiFi near they quite cheap I think .
 

Al R

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Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
A farm I rent some land off in the winter have single strand cattle fence on the whole farm, we were around 1 mile from the farm, they put the speedrite ( I think) device against it to check the voltage and pressed a button and the fence went off. I connected my triple strand to it and then they turned it back on, sheep broke out a week later as they turned it off to move strip grazing wires by the farm and sheep went through at the land a mile away. Neat system though 👍🏻
 

Jerry

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
If it’s an option….

I have a mains energiser running hot wires from the yard to sections of the farm.

That is plugged into a wifi plug linked to Wi-Fi in the yard.

The plug came with a app that you down load to your phone. Thus enables you to turn the plug on and off remotely.

Great to turn the mains energiser off from where ever you happen to be.

Added bonus being you can zap the person sent out to move a fence from a distance too…⚡️⚡️⚡️
 

Al R

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
If it’s an option….

I have a mains energiser running hot wires from the yard to sections of the farm.

That is plugged into a wifi plug linked to Wi-Fi in the yard.

The plug came with a app that you down load to your phone. Thus enables you to turn the plug on and off remotely.

Great to turn the mains energiser off from where ever you happen to be.

Added bonus being you can zap the person sent out to move a fence from a distance too…⚡️⚡️⚡️
If someone intentionally put a fencer on when I was handling it I’d walk. If they worked for me and did it they’d be gone.

I know someone who sacked a seriously good worker as he purposely connected the bungee cord on a seriously powerful mains fencer while the boss was retensioning HT wire.
 

yellowbelly

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
N.Lincs
I didn’t even know you could get remote operated ones!!
£955.55 :eek: :eek: I hope it comes with a pallet full of Yorkies for that price :hungry:
It says in the blurb........
energiser-guide 2.jpg

So you, as a professional finisher will qualify (y)

:playful::playful:
 

Anymulewilldo

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
£955.55 :eek: :eek: I hope it comes with a pallet full of Yorkies for that price :hungry:
It says in the blurb........
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So you, as a professional finisher will qualify (y)

:playful::playful:
Hmmm, no thanks 😂 thank how many blackie lambs I could buy instead…
 

Anymulewilldo

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
If someone intentionally put a fencer on when I was handling it I’d walk. If they worked for me and did it they’d be gone.

I know someone who sacked a seriously good worker as he purposely connected the bungee cord on a seriously powerful mains fencer while the boss was retensioning HT wire.
Now we only use battery units 99% of the time. But it’s a sport between me and our kid who can zap the other the most in a season. There is one rule and that’s no mains.
You have too pick the right day though, pick the wrong one and I could meet a corner post coming my way at speed…
 

Al R

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
Now we only use battery units 99% of the time. But it’s a sport between me and our kid who can zap the other the most in a season. There is one rule and that’s no mains.
You have too pick the right day though, pick the wrong one and I could meet a corner post coming my way at speed…
I’ve had bigger kicks off battery than mains except for 1 elephant mains which I touched with a metal fork and I flew backwards 😮 most of my batteries are 5.8J, on 100m runs it throws out serious power!
 

Anymulewilldo

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
I’ve had bigger kicks off battery than mains except for 1 elephant mains which I touched with a metal fork and I flew backwards 😮 most of my batteries are 5.8J, on 100m runs it throws out serious power!
How many 100m runs do you do?! It’s rare we do less than 600m in a run?
 

sheepdogtrail

Member
Livestock Farmer
Don't know ins and out of the remote on /off and price built in , didn't even know they made them but a while ago I was going to get a wifi plug for same purpose (not got round to it yet) depends if you have WiFi near they quite cheap I think .
WiFi plugs work very well for cycling the energizer on and off. However, they will not help you find a fault in the fence or tell you the voltage output at any point on the line.
 

sheepdogtrail

Member
Livestock Farmer
I’ve had bigger kicks off battery than mains except for 1 elephant mains which I touched with a metal fork and I flew backwards 😮 most of my batteries are 5.8J, on 100m runs it throws out serious power!
Yes 5.8J is a nice punch. At least 4.5J is recommended to prevent depredation. I have some that put out 13J. The difference between a 2J and 5.8J i can describe as the following. If you punch me in the nose, it will sting. That is a 2J unit. If Mike Tyson punches me in the nose, it will be lights out for me. That would be like getting punched by a 5.8J. Now if Tyson Fury punches me in nose I will need a new nose when I wake up. If I wake up. That will be a 13J punch.
 

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