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THE GROUND ROD #2GR5

In traditional electric fence tape, if your horse is not respecting the fence, 8 out 10 times the cause is Poor grounding. The electricty must complete a full circle back to the charger through the ground. Poor grounding gives weak shocks and makes your fence ineffective.

The #GR5 is a 5ft galvanized ground rod with a clamp. It has a bayonet shape to improve penetration in hard soil.
Connect the negative terminal (Earth) of the charger with one continuous wire to the ground rod using the special wire clamp. In a moist ground: drive a minimum of 2 ground rods into the earth.

In a less conductive ground: one option is to drive 2 to 5 ground rods, into the soil spaced at 7 feet apart, connected in series with thick wire. This will greatly improve the performance of the system and the shock intensity. How do you know if your grounding is efficient?
Simply touch the ground rod. If you feel a tingle this means you need to increase the number of ground rods.

Normally without a ground rod an electric fence won’t work, but remember that with the new Horseguard Bi-Polar system you will not need a ground rod for your fence to work properly.

2GR5

Ground Rod 5ft long

44.25

Lightning diverter #DIV53A

Horseguard offers a Lightning diverter and its own ground rod