Finding Break In Invisible Fence With Am Radio

Don t have a wire locator.

Finding break in invisible fence with am radio.

Turn off your dog fence transmitter. Plug in the sending unit so that both lights on the transmitter are lit. If the instructions are unavailable turn on a portable am radio near the fence transmitter. With close to 2000 of wire i started on the end that seemed the most vulnerable i found the break about 150 from the opposite end where the kids buried a dead bird.

This product is not effective for finding partial or decaying breaks. Turn on the am radio turning the station to 530 khz. This usually is an am frequency on the lower end of the spectrum. Do the same thing using the other wire.

Fourth use an am radio most types of fence use an am signal including if brand not a fm signal and walk the wire listening for the tone. Ground the sending unit by attaching the enclosed wire to the center screw of an electrical outlet. Hooking up to both fence wires will send a signal up both sides of the break making it much harder to detect. Set a portable am radio to am 60 or am 600.

Search the am stations until you have found the correct one. Set the field width knob on the wall transmitter at the minimum level to obtain a signal on the portable radio. Connect your wire break locator to your twisted wire. Unplug your dog fence transmitter.

When the tone stops that may be the break. The wire breaks must be clean breaks. 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. Find the radio frequency that your invisible fence is using.

Check your fence instructions for the exact frequency. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. When standing over the twisted wire the signal should be absent. What you are doing here is making a diy wire locator using a lawnmower as a transmitter a wire to connect the transmitter to the underground cable and the am radio to find where the wire is located.

Hold the radio chest high and swing the radio over the wire while walking around the boundary. Based upon our extensive tests we have determined that this device only works well for fence systems with less than 500 feet of wire. Save the 70 and make your own diy locator using an am radio. The hard part was finding an am fm radio got stuck walking around with a hulking desktop radio from target.