Finding Break In Underground Fence

To start turn your wire locator receiver on near the.

Finding break in underground fence.

An invisible fence is both a type and a brand of fence that keeps your pet inside a confined area. Recently i went into my garage to find the invisible dog fence transmitter beeping. Locate the halfway point of your boundary and cut the boundary wire. The wire breaks must be clean breaks.

First an overview of how a hidden fence or an invisible fence works. The most common way to find a break is to use an underground locator. This means the new owners already have the wiring for an invisible fence. You can locate a wire break for any brand systems using a petsafe wire break locator kit.

The wire is connected to a transmitter usually mounted in your basement or your garage. This locator can detect wires up to 80 cm away from the sensing. Now that the wire locator transmitter is hooked up and sending a signal with our fence unit we can use the wire locator receiver to find the break in your underground fence. How to find a break in an invisible fence using a wire locator.

Hooking up to both fence wires will send a signal up both sides of the break making it much harder to detect. After calling the company i was informed that this alarm meant there was a break in the fence and that i should have them come out as soon as possible because my dog would surely figure this out in a few days. Watch the video below for a demonstration of how to use it. If the loop indicator light is on you can assume the break is in the other half of the boundary wire.

After some testing of different models we recommend the kolsol underground wire locator. Based upon our extensive tests we have determined that this device only works well for fence systems with less than 500 feet of wire. The underground boundary wire is a key component of a dogwatch hidden fence or any other pet containment system for pets including invisible fence brand. Plug in the fence transmitter and check the loop indicator light.

The kit includes a mini transmitter and an am radio.