I use the fault finder to get me close and then I get quiet and listen. If there is anything over 1K voltage left, you will hear a pop even if it is a direct short. If you are able to disconnect portions of your wire it seems to make trouble shooting a lot easier. Seems like I heard some pops a couple of times during the video. Hope you find them all, they can be aggravating sometimes. BTW, that lightning damage was crazy. Makes you wonder if something goofy is going on with the charger or grounds.
Yeah, I'm wondering the same thing. I haven't gone through the whole ground system yet. I have a ground rod at the H brace I was at in the video, but everything looks good there. I need to find the time to run it all down before the animals figure out that I'm bluffing.
I've done it both ways, but I prefer to suspend an insulator on the inside. I've had much better luck doing that I have with an insul-tube wrap. I've had the insul-tube crack out on me over time. Of course, I generally use the cheap stuff, so quality could have been an issue in those cases.
@@PlaneViewFarm thank you. Do you terminate at one insulator, and begin a new line using two separate insulators for each corner? Or continue one line through one insulator? Seems like the fence line could end up in potentially three different places depending on how I wire my corner.
@davidpeightal4918 Usually, I continue through with the line and then terminate the run at the next corner. If it's a narrow corner, less than 90 degrees, I will just terminate the run and start a new one so that the wire will be able to move through the insulator more easily.
I use the fault finder to get me close and then I get quiet and listen. If there is anything over 1K voltage left, you will hear a pop even if it is a direct short. If you are able to disconnect portions of your wire it seems to make trouble shooting a lot easier. Seems like I heard some pops a couple of times during the video. Hope you find them all, they can be aggravating sometimes. BTW, that lightning damage was crazy. Makes you wonder if something goofy is going on with the charger or grounds.
Yeah, I'm wondering the same thing. I haven't gone through the whole ground system yet. I have a ground rod at the H brace I was at in the video, but everything looks good there. I need to find the time to run it all down before the animals figure out that I'm bluffing.
How do you do your high tensile corners ? Insul-tube on the outside of the post? Or suspended along the inside of the corner? Or?
I've done it both ways, but I prefer to suspend an insulator on the inside. I've had much better luck doing that I have with an insul-tube wrap. I've had the insul-tube crack out on me over time. Of course, I generally use the cheap stuff, so quality could have been an issue in those cases.
@@PlaneViewFarm thank you. Do you terminate at one insulator, and begin a new line using two separate insulators for each corner? Or continue one line through one insulator? Seems like the fence line could end up in potentially three different places depending on how I wire my corner.
@davidpeightal4918 Usually, I continue through with the line and then terminate the run at the next corner. If it's a narrow corner, less than 90 degrees, I will just terminate the run and start a new one so that the wire will be able to move through the insulator more easily.