On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:26:05 -0500, Karl Townsend
wrote:

Plugged in the electric fencer and the meter reads “short” but it
still shocks the **** out of you. Don’t ask me how I know this.

Not having a volt indication will be a real problem, no way to know if
grass etc. is knocking down the effectiveness. A fencer puts out a
high volt burst a small percent of the time. On the order of 7K volts
for 50 miliseconds once per second. Is there an easy way to add a volt
meter? Just a relative indication is all that’s needed. or time to buy
another unit? ($250)

Karl

If it is a DC pulse, like the device my father had many years ago,
than a multi-meter with a series resister will measure voltage with
the caveat that as you are measuring between the fence and ground your
ground connection will have a large effect on the voltage that the
meter reads.

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Cheers,

John B.