[Homestead] Solar and fencing(many questions and long)
EarthNSky
erthnsky at bellsouth.net
Wed Mar 11 21:06:08 EDT 2009
Lynda wrote:
> Hopefully they have improved the ability of solar/battery chargers. There
> was no way they put out anywhere near the "zap" the wired in chargers did.
> My horses could have cared less about the electric fence with the battery
> charged unit and it was supposed to be good enough to keep bulls in! I had
> to go back to the wired in units.
That is what I am afraid of, but I know that output varies from system
to system and it might not be as simple as make a generalization. I
know what that Cyclops can do powered AC, I will be able to compare what
it can do via DC, i.e. solar/battery
>
> The difference with the batteries is that regular batteries is that regular
> batteries are made to give you a whole bunch of juice for a short period of
> time and the deep cycle batteries are made to give you a surge when you need
> it but give you a steady current over a long period of time. They are also
> designed to "survive" repeated drawn downs and what is called "deep"
> recharging. That will kill a regular car type battery.
> If you take the two batteries apart, the marine batteries have
> bigger/thicker plates in them.
Thanks for that explanation and especially the terminology. That may
have answered my question about animals testing the fence(repeated draw
downs). I suppose a deep cycle marine battery would suit the purpose
better than a regular 12 volt.
And Lynn, I actually have a marine battery. It came with the boat my
boss gave me.
Bev, hoping to get more answers about the solar panels
--
I am having an out-of-money experience.
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