Have talked about electric fences a bit before. See the following:
I have an anti-donkey electric fence. It is some distance from the house, maybe a 100-200 metres away.
The two drop cables are on the opposite side of the house going into the south east corner at upper floor level. They runs roughly ESE or SE from the top of a pole horizontally into Janet’s upstairs den.
The donkey fence runs say north-south and is to the west of the house. I wouldn’t say that the house
shields the drop cable, from a viewpoint looking towards the house standing at the southern end of the donkey fence. The fence confines the donkeys to the western half of their patch when they are getting too lively and boisterous. I’ve just learned something while writing this: Janet tells me that the fence is never even turned
on these days. The donkeys simply believe in its powers and won’t go near it, so it doesn’t even need to be on to be effective.
One very good thing is that the angle between the fence and the drop cable is probably something like 60 - 80° - anyway absolutely not even remotely parallel. So I’m hoping that that angle and the distance, which I am hopeless at estimating, should mean that I have no worries. Does that sound reasonable?
If I do a donkey fence-on vs off test and look at stats, is there any chance at all that I might see something? And what would I be looking at
in particular ? I’m aware of the usual suspects, ES, CRC and FEC. Also I have the PhyR counters to see how hard that is working. But anything in particular that relates to
that type of possible interference (if it exists)?
Noddy has neighbouring cows and an electric fence. User aesmith has had fun with electric fences. I’m sure there are other users with experience.
[Moderator edited to fix the numbered list and to correct a typo.]