Finding Break In Invisible Fence With Am Radio

Turn off your dog fence transmitter.

Finding break in invisible fence with am radio. When the tone stops that may be the break. Turn on the am radio turning the station to 530 khz. Set the field width knob on the wall transmitter at the minimum level to obtain a signal on the portable radio. Set a portable am radio to am 60 or am 600.

Do the same thing using the other wire. Search the am stations until you have found the correct one. 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. Find the radio frequency that your invisible fence is using.

Hold the radio chest high and swing the radio over the wire while walking around the boundary. If the instructions are unavailable turn on a portable am radio near the fence transmitter. Unplug your dog fence transmitter. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube.

The wire breaks must be clean breaks. This product is not effective for finding partial or decaying breaks. Save the 70 and make your own diy locator using an am radio. 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.

The hard part was finding an am fm radio got stuck walking around with a hulking desktop radio from target. Hopefully the break will be in the same spot unless you have multiple breaks. Don t have a wire locator. Ground the sending unit by attaching the enclosed wire to the center screw of an electrical outlet.

This usually is an am frequency on the lower end of the spectrum. Plug in the sending unit so that both lights on the transmitter are lit. The kit includes a mini transmitter and an am radio. Check your fence instructions for the exact frequency.

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. Connect your wire break locator to your twisted 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. Hooking up to both fence wires will send a signal up both sides of the break making it much harder to detect.