Whats your favorite fence charger

One that plugs into the wall, don't fool with any others...unless there's no electricity, obviously.

Depends what you’re doing with it. No need for a 60 joule charger on a half acre lot.

One with good grounding rods

I agree with above, a plug in fencer with a good grounding system. For large systems I like stafix brand fence chargers, for small to medium stafix or kencove branded are both good. Check out Kencove farm fence supplies its a great place to buy electric fence supplies. I often can get my order shipped to the house faster than I could find time to run to the store to pick it up myself. They also do free shipping on orders over 150 dollars, it used to be 75 I guess the shipping situation has caught up to that policy.

Also Kencove repairs fence chargers. We send about one a year to them for repair usually because they got hit by lightning.

I'm cross fencing 450 acres thats in 4 permanent lots with high tensile wire and fiberglass sucker rod post . Im currently running 3 ZAREBA 15 joule chargers .My end goal is to get to a strip grazing system . I'm dealing with alot of wire . Im contemplating the speed right 46000w with remote control and smart phone control .Its pricy but convenience often is .

Cyclops brand are amazing.I run 1 plug in and 2 battery 5 joule and they have out performed the zarebas that i had previously by a long ways. They make a 32 joule that would easily do 450 acres.

We have an old order Mennonite in Dayton,VA that rebuilds fencers. Get one with a remote.

Good idea.

I have not had a problem with my speed right. Its what was recomended by Joel Salitan. He said if you are going to spend money on anything spend it on a good fence charger.

It's only 2 jouls and im running it off a battery for my net goat fence. If i can ever afford to get the place fenced with new fence I will get a larger speed right and plug it in with a battery back up.

Depends on what environmental conditions and critter you are trying to contain or repel

Dry conditions require more energy

Like others have said, a good ground system is the foundation of a good electric fence

I have Gallagher chargers, not sure if they are still top of the list but when I was running them they were.

Even if you are buying some other brand, Gallagher has some good information on their website about building electric fences. Wire spacing, grounding, etc

I run a 6 joule Zareba on my High tensile side, on the other side of my property it's lighter wire so I'm using an older 1Joule box that is turned off in winter.

3 lightning ground rods near each box and A lightning diverted & 3 more lightning ground rods on the OFF side corners of each field.

The increase in ground rods & $15 diverters have allowed me to only replace 1 6 joule box in 23 years.

Parmak 30 sold at most MFA retail outlets. Light em up.

having touched several

the solar ones have only tingled for me I regularly just grab the wire with my gloved hand only get a little tickle I suspect it has more to do with inadequate grounding than the unit really being that under powered

like others have said how they are installed is very important


I have a small up to 15 mile it will light you up and seriously get your attention

the farm has a very nice setup but runs a lot of miles of fence and the biggest issue is ground and drain I touch the fence often enough and it really doesn't do all that much most of the time

my fence is chain link with a hot wire at the top , hot wire to the earth gets your attention with bare feet , it isn't bad with dry insulating shoes on still more than a tickle , but if you get any part of the chain link fence which I have all tied to ground and the ground wire of the charger connected too and the hot wire at the same time you get the full experience, that will hold 10,000% of your attention till you can get free.

the farm has miles and miles of wire around 250 acre in pasture fenced while they have a really nice charger , they don't often cut the grass around the fence till it becomes an issue , since early in the spring the new cattle learn to respect the wire it isn't much of an issue once the grass grows tall

all that little loss here little loss there adds up and racoons no longer respect the electro netting

when running wire make sure to run a ground then tie that ground to ground rods about every hundred feet it makes for less loss hot wire to earth ground

stagger wires so if anything tried to push through the fence it will have a ground and a hot and get the full effect

Don't know what kind it was but my buddy and I where trapping coyotes on farm and he had to go back to work so I was running the traps. One of his sets haad a dead coyote in it . It got down to about 18 degrees that night so I thought the strees and cold got to it until I kneeled down to take it out then I know what killed it that fence was very hot. LOL

As noted.....fencer is use specific. Makes a difference if you trying to keep coons out of a koi pond, or cattle and goats inside a section.

When our Red Snapp'r s in the big metal box finally died, we have gone through a few of the newer types. We have 2 15 mile chargers. Once we tried Gallagher, they seem to last and do a good job too.

The small internal fuses some chargers have don't protect from lightening. At least not often, it usually still fries it. There are inline lightening "arrestors" made for lightening protection, though I think it can still jump across and fry your charger some times. For that sort of acreage, stick with the better brands like Gallagher, Stafix/Speedright, Parmak, and some others. The cheaper ones at the farm box stores like Zareba typically aren't serviceable. You'll probably want 15+ joules for that much wire.