In-Ground Fence Wiring Overview
Find out the basics of In-Ground Fence Wiring with this video presentation from MuttFence.com.
In-Ground Fence Transmitter
The first past is the fence transmitter. This plugs into an outlet and is responsible for transmitting the signal along the wires. Two terminals on the box connect the wire to take the signal to the fence.
Wiring From The In-Ground Fence Transmitter
Firstly we connect the twisted pair wire. Twisted pair is a type of wire in which two separate strands of insulated wire are twisted together. This is very important because twisted pair wire carries the fence signal from place-to-place, but does not transmit the signal from the fence to your dog's collar. Your dog can cross the twisted pair without getting a correction from the collar. Twisted pair wire carries the signal from one part of the fence to another without sending the signal to your dog.
Splices - Connecting The Wire
At the end of the twisted pair wire, connect a splice. Because it is a pair of wires, you'll need a splice for each wire. Splices connect one wire to another and are weatherproof, waterproof, and burial-grade, which means you can put them under the soil.
Splices are T-shaped. The horizontal part of the "T" is where the wires are connected, the vertical part can be pushed into the ground to keep the splice in place, if you are laying your wire above ground, or the entire thing can be buried for an In-Ground installation.
Joining The In-Ground Fence Signal Wire
Signal wire is connected to the other side of the splice. The signal wire is one strand of wire. When joining the twisted pair wire to the signal wire, you are joining two wires to one, so you connect the signal wire to one of the splices, run it around the enclosure and connect the other end to the other splice.
The In-Ground Fence wire MUST form a loop for the E-Fence to work at all. In the of out example, the wire runs from one side of the transmitter, through one side of the twisted pair wire, connects to the signal wire, which runs in a loop back to the other side of the twisted pair wire and into the other side of the transmitter.
The wire must run from one terminal of the transmitter, around the fence wiring and back to the other terminal of the transmitter in a continuous loop.
The Signal Boundary Encloses Your Dog
Ollie (our example dog) can go anywhere within the signal boundary, but cannot cross the boundary, or get too close without the collar making a correction. Ollie can cross the twisted pair wire without receiving the correction.
Splicing The In-Ground Fence Signal Wire
Splices can be used to join signal wire, just the same as it did for one side of the twisted pair wire to the signal wire in the earlier example.
Because the signal wire is one piece of wire, you only need one splice, not a pair, to join together the two signal wires. You can do this any number of times as long as you've got enough signal wire and splices, and as long as your E-Fence supports that much wire.
