- Location
- Leicestershire
I've found them perfectly adequate. Does what it says on the tin.
Energizers and fencing
- Thread starter ImLost
- Start date
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I bought one last year, but didn’t get to use it that much. IIRC it was 5J and around £130. Seems very good value and perfectly adequate.
The electronics involved in producing a pulsed shock aren’t exactly complicated, so there’s no reason they should be expensive these days.
Johnny Whiteheads
Member
I have a Lacme (french) solar fencer from guy in Galway. Great shock off it for last 3 months but now battery is going dead every 7 days? I have charged battery 3 times but loses charge. Any ideas what problem might be?
Need a new battery
sounds to me like overcharging could've cooked the battery
If that's the case, its a charging regulator/controller problem
either way the battery should be under guarentee?
Johnny Whiteheads
Member
Will try that thanks, battery was new from Halfords 3 months ago(trickle charged as reccomended by seller)
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Could I recommend Tayna ( https://www.tayna.co.uk ) for batteries. I've used them several times now and the prices & service are exceptional.
I needed a new battery on my pick up a couple of months ago and Halfords quoted £165. A Bosch/Exide one delivered next day from Tayna, was about £70.- Location
- Wales
Sounds like a faulty solar charge regulator if fitted with one? its a common fault, could be as simple as the diode that prevents the battery back-feeding at night.
- Location
- East Sussex
Could I recommend Tayna ( https://www.tayna.co.uk ) for batteries. I've used them several times now and the prices & service are exceptional.
I'll recommend your local car scrappy. Think of those junkers that people go and buy a fresh battery for so they can drive it to the scrapper, all those batteries get put in a bin and sold for £10-20 a pop depending on size. That's cheap fencing!
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I took a half a dozen in to our local scrappy a couple of days ago, completely shot. They paid me just shy of £15 each for them. Why would they sell them out again at anything like the same money, unless they were diddy little ones?
- Location
- East Sussex
I took a half a dozen in to our local scrappy a couple of days ago, completely shot. They paid me just shy of £15 each for them. Why would they sell them out again at anything like the same money, unless they were diddy little ones?
Ones I get are van batteries maybe 20 quid. They drop test them and give a month guarantee, not that I've had to test it yet
Edit: some obv new by the way they look.
Johnny Whiteheads
Member
Yes fencer was 600 quid so presume it has, will check with seller Monday, thanks
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
View attachment 589834 View attachment 589836 I like Tanya too @neilo but she didn't seem to sell batteries
Checkout SuperTanya on face book, the weirdest wool garments ever seen, will charge up any Welsh farmers battery's in no time at all
I could see that second garment being a tad itchy round my nether regions when I’m out moving leccy fences. I’m not sure whether a pair of leggings over it would improve matters either, probably just be sweaty and itchy then....
Perhaps I should just ask Tanya to come and give me some assistance instead?
- Location
- Huntingdon
I took a half a dozen in to our local scrappy a couple of days ago, completely shot. They paid me just shy of £15 each for them. Why would they sell them out again at anything like the same money, unless they were diddy little ones?
Our one sells medium car batteries to us for £10 each, however now we have enough we just take the dead (no longer charge) ones back and swap for fresh ones for £5, happy days.
C B
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
yes we have done the same for years , part exhange £5 each , to be fair they get them all back at the end of the day , your just paying for the charge thats left in them , some last 3 weeks some 3 years