4 TO START THE FENCE MINDER™ OPERATION

If an alarm is triggered when you power up the Fence Minder™, press and hold the Reset Button until you hear the Minder™ reset, then release the button.

The Fence Minder™ will go through a 60 second evaluation cycle while it checks the status of the fence. The green light should show solid green, which means the power is on. The yellow light will start solid yellow until it begins to flash in rhythm with the pulse from the energizer. The red light will remain off.

NOTE: The cover of the Fence Minder™ must be in place or it will not function.

5. TESTING YOUR FENCE MINDER™ INSTALLATION

5.1 Good Grounding is of Critical Importance

A horse respects an electric fence because he gets a painful shock when he touches it. If the shock is not sufficient, the horse may not respect the fence.

Electricity flows from the energizer through the fence to any animal touching the fence. The electric circuit is completed when the current goes through the animal into the soil (the "ground"), and through the soil back to the ground rods which are connected to the energizer. If the soil conducts electricity poorly, the animal may get very little shock, even though your voltmeter may read over 5,000 volts between the "hot" and "cold" strands.

Sandy soil, dry soil and/or frozen soil are notably poor conductors.

Once your Fence Minder™ is operating, you need to test for consistent good grounding along the length of your fence.