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Reassemble and Test the Fence Controller

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Farm Fencing: Electric fence controllers...Solar? DC or AC what's inside them!

What happens here

After installing the new circuit board, secure the green (ground) and red (fence) output terminals on the front of the unit. Place the small washers and nuts onto the leads, and tighten them down. The host suggests tightening them to about 10 foot-pounds of torque. Once secured, add the plastic caps (green for ground, red for fence). Next, slide the small protective plastic tab over the internal connections of the circuit board. Reinsert the batteries into their compartment and connect their terminals. Finally, reattach the back panels with the Torx screws. Turn on the fence controller and listen for the characteristic 'pop' sound to confirm it's working properly. The host recommends storing solar fence chargers near a window when not in use to maintain battery charge. If troubleshooting, always check the batteries first before assuming a circuit board issue. For remote locations without AC power, a DC-powered unit with a deep-cycle marine battery is a good option.

Goal: Completely reassemble the unit and confirm its functionality.

Tools and materials

  • Battery — Powering the fence controller
  • Output Terminal Caps — Protecting the output terminals
  • Output Terminal Nuts — Securing the output terminals on the front panel
  • Output Terminal Washers — Securing the output terminals on the front panel
  • Protective Plastic Tab — Covering the internal connections of the circuit board
  • T10 Torx Screwdriver Craftsman — Reattaching the back panels
  • Zareba 30-mile Solar Fence Charger — The unit being reassembled and tested

What they say

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in there now we're holding these in place and each one of these has this little locking kind of washer that goes on there very simple and then we'll start I believe it's a little quarter inch nut once we get that nut started on there we can go ahead and release the back side and we don't have to worry so much we will torque this nut down not too awfully tight probably about ten pounds something like that torque those two nuts down and then we'll slide on our washers these washers go just like this another washer like that and then this is ground so this will get the green and this other side will get the red so you don't ruin your circuit board you need to pull these and turn them and set them in place because the circuit board is set up with a little square area that will drop those guys back into place then we'll just tighten them down a little bit and we'll basically be done replacing the circuit board we'll go ahead and put our batteries back in and we need to set this thing out in the sunshine so these things need to get some sunshine if you're going to store them in your shop or your garage then you need the storm near a window so that they can keep a little bit of charge trickling on those batteries because if you leave them alone you're gonna be replacing lead acid batteries and that's no fun I think the battery replacement cost is somewhere around fifty to a hundred dollars for both batteries that's a bit expensive so there's a little plastic wing tab that slides right into place over top of these little connectors to protect them basically slides right in there and protects those two little tabs and I'll pull it out so you can see it there we go so those are the two little tabs we just tightened down and that's a protector that holds it in place now the screw that holds the cover over top of this holds that in place so the circuit board serves as a charging system and a discharging system in other words as a charging system to feed the batteries to make sure that they stay charged and a discharging system to send out pulses of electricity to your fence pretty cool now if you've got as a Reba brand fence controller like this and you're having troubles with it I'd say the first thing you need to check is your battery system so make sure that your batteries are good what we did is we took good batteries and put in here and we found that we still had the same problem so check the simplest thing first and then go to the more complicated thing contact…

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