"Positive and Negative" Fence Wiring

One of the biggest issues with electric fencing is the conductivity of the earth. When it’s soaked and full of minerals, electicity will flow quite easily. When it’s dry, it loses conductivity.


There are a number of other insulators that impede the flow of the pulse such as the animal hooves being insulators.



You can encourage most people to touch an electric fence. However you will find it difficult to get even the craziest of husbands to hold both terminals of an energiser while you turn it on!!! Why?? You get the full pulse of the energiser.


When you run a multi wire fence, you run your positive tape just as normal. Then below it you run another wire which is connected to the earth (let’s call it the negative) terminal of the energiser and the earth stake.


When an animal touches the positive wire, they get the normal shock where the pulse flows from the tape, through the animal, along the ground, back up the earth stake and to the energiser.


But when they really lean on the fence, they end up touching both wires simultaneously which is the same as touching the two terminals on the energiser together. The earth, the stake, the water in the ground, the hooves are all taken out of consideration and you get the maximum output of the energiser applied at that moment to the animal.


Multi wire taping overcomes a number of issues with earthing and extends the capabilities of your fence significantly.