Wiring panel

If you have large agricultural fields and desperately need to protect the crops from uninvited guests like animals and possibly humans, then this electric fence charger device is just what you are looking for. Build and install it yourself.

An electric fence is an electrified high voltage barrier which produces painful shocks if physically touched or manipulated. Thus such fencing basically function as deterrents for animals as well as human intruders and stop them from crossing the restricted boundary.

The present circuit of an electric fence charger is designed and tested by me and has proved sufficiently powerful for the application. 

The circuit is able to produce voltage pulses up to 20,000 volts, needless to say about the fatality rate involved with it. However the pulses being intermittent, provides the subject with enough time to realize, recover and eject.

The generated pulse is so powerful that it can easily arc and fly-off between short distances of around a cm. so the fencing conductor needs to be separated adequately to avoid leakages through arcing and sparking. If not tackled, may drastically reduce the effectiveness of the unit.

Here the generation of high voltage is primarily carried out by an automobile ignition coil. 

The winding ratios of an ignition coil are specifically designed and intended for creating high voltage arc between a two closely spaced conductors inside the ignition chamber to initiate the ignition process in vehicles.

Basically it’s just a step-up transformer, which is able to step-up an input applied voltage at its primary winding to monstrous levels at its output or the secondary winding.

Let’s diagnose the whole thing more deeply.

In the CIRCUIT DIAGRAM we see that the entire circuit is basically comprised of four stages.

A DC oscillator stage,

An intermediate 12 to 230 volts step-up stage,

The voltage collector and firing stage and

The super high voltage-booster stage.

 TR1 and TR2 are two normal step-down transformers whose secondary windings are connected through SCR2. TR2’s input primary winding may be selected as per the country specification.

However, TR1’s primary should be rated at 230 volts.

IC1 along with the associated components forms a normal astable multivibrator stage. The supply voltage to the circuit is derived from the secondary of TR2 itself.

The output from the astable is used to trigger SCR2 and the whole system, at a particular fixed intermittent rate as per the settings of P1.

During the ON periods, SCR2 connects the 12 volt AC from TR2 to the secondary of TR1 so that a 230 volt potential instantly becomes available at the other end of TR1.

This voltage is fed to the voltage-firing stage consisting of the SCR1 as the main active component along with a few diodes, resistor and the capacitor C4.

The fired voltage from SCR1 is dumped into the primary winding of the ignition coil, where it is instantly pulled to a massive 20,000 volts at its secondary winding. This voltage may be suitably terminated into the fencing.

The high voltage generated by this electric fence charger will need to be carefully applied across the whole length of the fence. 

The two poles from the ignition coil connected to the fence wiring should be kept at least 2 inches apart. 

The pillars of the fence should be ideally made of plastic or similar non conducting material, never use metal and not even wood (wood tend to absorb moisture and may give path to leakages).

R4 = 1K, 1WATT,

R5 = 100 OHMS, 1WATT,

P1 = 27K PRESET

C4 = 105/400V PPC,

ALL DIODES ARE 1N4007,

IC = 555

TR1 = 0-12V/3Amp (120 or 230V)

TR2 = 0-12V/1Amp (120 or 230V)

BOTH THE SCRs ARE C106 OR PREFERABLY BT151,

TWO WHEELER IGNITION COIL IS SHOWN IN FLUORESCENT BLUE COLOR