I am looking for fence charger recommendations. The first charger I had was the biggest solar charger that tractor supply sold. The goats only respected it for about a day. About a year and a half ago I purchased a parmak super energizer 5. This charger worked well but was taken out by lightening.

I was looking for a 12 volt charger but I didn't think they are going to put out enough joules. I looked up some chargers that were in a video Greg Judy did and am suffering from sticker shock. I didn't want to spend $1000 to lose it to lightning again.

I have 6 acres that I am trying to fence. I am splitting it up into sections and am looking to further divide it so it will be a lot of wire. A 4 wire system with wires at 8, 16 , 24 and 40 inches has been working well.

Any recommendations for a charger that could be provided would be appreciated. If anyone has successfully built a charger I would be interested in that as well. I can't imagine that there are $1000 worth of parts in those things.

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What are the alternatives to electric fences? Is it only higher and/or barbed?

For goats, I only know of a few options:

5-7 strand barbed

Electric

Woven wire (but our goats destroyed the woven wire that was in their “housing” area by putting their front feet up on it like dogs)

Or if you really want to spend a lot of $$$, check out the new gps collars that allow you to draw new paddocks on your phone.

Plug in but there’s not much that will mess with this one a second time.

https://parmakusa.com/product/mark-8/