Finding Break In Invisible Fence Wire

To start turn your wire locator receiver on near the.

Finding break in invisible fence wire.

First an overview of how a hidden fence or an invisible fence works. You can locate a wire break for any brand systems using a petsafe wire break locator kit. Follow the procedure below. The kit includes a mini transmitter and an am radio.

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. The most common way to find a break is to use an underground locator. In any event this time she has tried a. This locator can detect wires up to 80 cm away from the sensing.

A friend has an invisible fence for her dog. I used a 3 pronged hand tiller and dragged it perpendicular to the wire the invisible fence guys used a pick axe. Use whatever you like but be careful that you don t cut or knick the wire in the process. If you still cannot find the break in the boundary wire there are 2 options for locating it.

How to find a break in an invisible fence using a wire locator. Purchase a wire break locator that will locate the break in the boundary wire. The kit includes a mini transmitter and an am radio. She claims to have used a portable radio to find the break in this system before but she can t remember whether she was using the am or the fm band.

When you ve located the area where you suspect the break to be you ll need to expose the wire. Hooking up to both fence wires will send a signal up both sides of the break making it much harder to detect. But wire breaks do happen. After some testing of different models we recommend the kolsol underground wire locator.

Watch this video for instructions on using the wire break locator. They are often the result of outside forces like weather landscaping and small burrowing animals. Based upon our extensive tests we have determined that this device only works well for fence systems with less than 500 feet of wire.