Blog Posts — Bi-polar Electric Fencing

Be careful when handling your electric fence energiser, it can hurt you. The danger level is low, but this danger increases for small children and pets. Barbed wire should not be electrified. For long, permanent electric fences use 2.5mm plain galvanised wire. For temporary fences, strip grazing and small garden fence set-ups we recommend using electric fencing poliwire or politape instead (see here).  If your fence is likely to be touched by children consider using a lower-powered energiser or using the low power terminal on your energiser. Another alternative is to add an energy limiting device such as the JVA Flood...

With summer's storm season we often find an increased number of lightning-damaged energisers coming back for repair. Can these be repaired? Our answer: yes!

A Bi-Polar Electric Fence is a fence with two sets of live wires, Positive and Negative. As it is a more complicated system, we do not recommend Bi-Polar fences unless you currently have one of the problems that it helps with, such as farms with dry soils and/or suffering from desert-like conditions, animals/livestock that are difficult to contain (e.g. goats) or electrical interference with wireless signals.