Gallagher Announces New 3 Year Energizer Warranty to Celebrate 80 Years of Powering Ranchers & Farmers
To commemorate Gallagher’s 80th Anniversary, on January 1, 2018 Gallagher North America will begin offering to consumers a three-year warranty on all Gallagher Energizers purchased on or after the January 1, 2018 date.
“We’re proud to offer this new warranty coverage on Gallagher Energizers, honoring the durability and legendary reliability that’s kept our Energizers on the front lines of electric fencing innovation for eight decades,” said Scott Rooney, Technical Support Manager.
Gallagher was founded in 1938 in New Zealand by Bill Gallagher Senior. Originally, the core business was the development and manufacturing of electric fence applications, but today Gallagher also offers weighing, data collection and watering system solutions.
Believing that a company must look forward to innovation, represent only the best products and view every customer as a long-term partner, Bill created the foundation of what Gallagher is today - the leading provider of Animal Management solutions.
Warranty notes:
Consumers must provide a receipt with all warranty claims.
Three-year warranty on all Gallagher Energizers purchased on or after the January 1, 2018 date applies regardless of any warranty stated on the product package.
For additional information, please contact customer support at 1-800-531-5908.
The history of Gallagher electric fence started back in 1938 with a classic entrepreneurial beginning in electric fencing. Since that time, we’ve continued to add quality animal management products to our line like automatic livestock waterers, weighing and electronic identification systems.
Quality at Gallagher North America is a longstanding tradition. Everything we do revolves around quality.
Its cold out there! Don't worry your electric fence should be working fine. Here are a few things to remember:
1. If you have deep snow, it will short out the fence.
2. If you have ice build up on the wire, that can short out your fence too if its around the insulators.
Sometimes, there is not much you can do for your fence in the cold with deep snow, but remember to keep your livestock fed and they should be happy to stay where they are...
Your battery or solar fence chargers can be turned off, to keep them from discharging.. wait till the snow is down and clear before turning them back on.
I have a M150 that I ordered end of April 2013 so it's now 4 years old. Have 40 acres of grass so that's about 1.5 miles of single strand fence with a cross fence also so no more than 2 miles of wire. Without fence connected, the unit shows about 5.1 kV. When I hook fence line up to it, goes down to about 3.4 kV and at the end of the wire it's 1.1 , so barely even a shock. We have sand, buy it just snowed and rained 2 inches. 4 galv ground rods in a straight line 10 feet apart apiece. Insulators are on top of wood posts. Is my fencer bad or do I have another issue. Been working on this for several weeks. Calves walk right through the cross fence.
sounds like a grounding issue or a short in the line... fencer should be above 60000 v unhooked. call Gallagher 800-531-5908 for tech service
I am looking through your website for a suitable unit to keep my labrador out of my trash can, I love my dog but it is becoming very frustrating having to pick up all my trash all the time and of course she NEVER does it when we are home and watching her and I cannot really relocate my trashcan due to my yards layout I do not want to give her a huge shock that will really really hurt her but definitely something unpleasant . It should only take one or two zaps to train her not to touch the can any more and after that I plan to use the unit to fence my chickens out of my veggies . I was looking at your .11 joule b11 portafence unit I am guessing the higher the joules the unit outputs the stronger the zap the animal experiences?? Is that correct ? 12v and battery is fine as I have solar panels already do you think that unit is the most suitable in terms of a low but still unpleasant shock ?
We finally decided to treat ourselves and splurge on the big boy #gallagher fencer. Because we use #electricnetfencing to keep our birds confined (or more realistically, to keep coyotes and dogs OUT), we upgraded our electric fence charger from an S22 to a B700. The jump in voltage is shocking, if you will 😏#farmpuns
I am going to make several comments regarding your question because this topic comes up all the time to me. I think this is a good time to explain what is needed in putting in a good hot fencer system whether solar or AC. A solar fencer properly sized for the acres covered or miles of total fence line will equal any AC mains fencer. The main problem with solar fencers that come in a carry out box size, is they lack the joules of output to handle the larger size of field or pasture needed to energize. Small solar panels, and a small battery also contribute to a lot of issues keeping the fencer going on cloudy days as well as colder weather when the battery becomes less efficient. Grounding is the number one issue I have seen in at least 97% of every fix I have done for farmers/ranchers. You need to have at least 3'-4' of ground rod for every joule of output on a fencer. If you have a 5 joule fencer in output joules then you need 15'-20' of total ground rod length in the ground spaced at least 8' apart. Formula is: depth of rod in feet x 1.13 for distance between each ground rod. Use copper ground rods always if possible too along with copper no. 12 or no. 8 bare copper wire. Do not mix galvanized with copper or corrosion will occur on the two being mated. Galvanized does not work well long term in moist soil. It will rust and rust does not conduct well so your resistance of the ground systems goes up, and the efficiency goes down, which decreases joule output of the fencer, and wastes it by putting it back down into the ground system instead of going out on the HOT side of the fencer. Only if it is encapsulated in concrete will it last longer. Copper if properly installed will last up to 40 years with a good quality ground rod. If you are wanting a good rule of thumb for a fencer to operate well, do a 1:1 ratio instead of a 10:1 ratio for miles of fence to be charged. 1 mile to 1 joule output will get you a good hot fence heavily loaded with a good quality fencer. 10 miles to 1 joule, best wishes, won't cut it. Also, a good fence should never have less than 4k volts minimum on it. I like to see 7k or above at all times. A good test to do if you doubt grounding. Take an area where deer are abundant. Put out a small powered fencer with an average ground system and see what happens. Count the days the deer knock off the insulators. Then go buy a good quality fencer with a heavy transformer in it, install a proper ground rod system, and the deer won't touch it. So, with that said, most solar fencers out of the box will not cover much over 2 miles of heavy fencing, because most are under the 3 joule output range. But around say a corn stalk field using 14 ga. wire, with a good hot fencer may work satisfactory up to as much as 120 acres with good wire, but no vegetation. If you see low voltage with a clean fence you normally have 1 of 3 issues, a poorly installed ground rod system, an undersized jouled fencer, or a cheap made fencer with no horsepower, small transformer inside. Some fencer companies such as Gallagher advertise their units in stored joules, so that is not the output rating. Figure about 65-75% stored joule efficiency to get a good feel for actual output joules. So lets take a B300 Gallagher for example, it states 2.6 joules stored energy, so then 1.70-1.95 joule output would be closer to actual range when figuring true net output of energy. In summary, I would not recommend using anything over a 5:1 ratio maximum or you will be disappointed in results, especially in single wire configuration.
