Finding Break In Invisible Fence Wire

A friend has an invisible fence for her dog.

Finding break in invisible fence wire.

But wire breaks do happen. The kit includes a mini transmitter and an am radio. First an overview of how a hidden fence or an invisible fence works. How to find a break in an invisible fence using a wire locator.

The most common way to find a break is to use an underground locator. 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. Watch the video below for a demonstration of how to use it. After some testing of different models we recommend the kolsol underground wire locator.

Use whatever you like but be careful that you don t cut or knick the wire in the process. Here are some tips to help you identify a wire break repair the wire and avoid any future disruptions. When you ve located the area where you suspect the break to be you ll need to expose the wire. In any event this time she has tried a.

The wire was apparently severed by someone turning over soil in a rather large area adjacent to her property. Purchase a wire break locator that will locate the break in the boundary wire. 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. To start turn your wire locator receiver on near the.

If you still cannot find the break in the boundary wire there are 2 options for locating it. The kit includes a mini transmitter and an am radio. You can locate a wire break for any brand systems using a petsafe wire break locator kit. They are often the result of outside forces like weather landscaping and small burrowing animals.

Follow the procedure below. Hooking up to both fence wires will send a signal up both sides of the break making it much harder to detect. This locator can detect wires up to 80 cm away from the sensing.