They are often the result of outside forces like weather landscaping and small burrowing animals.
How to find a break in invisible fence wire.
Dogwatch is a brand of hidden pet fence systems.
You can locate a wire break for any brand systems using a petsafe wire break locator kit.
Watch the video below for a demonstration of how to use it.
The kit includes a mini transmitter and an am radio.
To start turn your wire locator receiver on near the.
Hooking up to both fence wires will send a signal up both sides of the break making it much harder to detect.
How to find a break in an invisible fence using a wire locator.
Use whatever you like but be careful that you don t cut or knick the wire in the process.
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.
Here are some tips to help you identify a wire break repair the wire and avoid any future disruptions.
But wire breaks do happen.
An invisible fence is both a type and a brand of fence that keeps your pet inside a confined area.
Ways to check for broken wire on a dogwatch fence.
After some testing of different models we recommend the kolsol underground wire locator.
This locator can detect wires up to 80 cm away from the sensing.
The kit includes a mini transmitter and an am radio.
This means the new owners already have the wiring for an invisible fence.
Watch this video for instructions on using the wire break locator.
If you still cannot find the break in the boundary wire there are 2 options for locating it.
When you ve located the area where you suspect the break to be you ll need to expose the wire.
Based upon our extensive tests we have determined that this device only works well for fence systems with less than 500 feet of wire.
Follow the procedure below.
I used a 3 pronged hand tiller and dragged it perpendicular to the wire the invisible fence guys used a pick axe.
Hidden pet fences use an electronic signal that is transmitted via an underground wire that runs.
Purchase a wire break locator that will locate the break in the boundary wire.