Electric Fence help, please

[Foxglove]

I have two electric fences: one is plugged into a wall socket in the barn and electrifies the top strand of a high tinsel wire that surrounds all 20 acres of my property. The second fence is powered by a solar transformer and electrifies a string type wire inside the main fence of Bobs two acres. Question: what do these numbers mean? First photo is main fence charger and reading:

second charger and second reading:

[Amberley]

It’s the voltage in kV. There are videos on youtube to show you how to use it properly to get an accurate reading if you enter “allosun electric fence tester” into the search bar you can find them.

Also it is high tensile fence, not tinsel.

[Foxglove]

My question was more toward the meaning of those numbers --clearly the electric fence is working, but is it working at the level the transformers are supposed to?

@Amberley --thank you! I was typing from my phone and knew I had tinsel/tensile incorrect, but too much in a hurry to look it up.

I love words --most recently I’ve been struggling with the word “debris” --Bob cut his leg on the TENSILE fence. The vet suggested (his words) DE BREE ING the wound after it had partially healed. Ok, know how to do that and nurse DD gave me a specific tool for that purpose. The problem was the word DEBRIS —I tried to text the vet that I had “debris-ed” the wound only to realize that isn’t a word at all --it is debrided. But that sounds odd–even more odd sounding is debris-ing —from what I can gather --in the medical jargon, the word switches to debridement and continues all its verb forms from there, including debriding —I spent way too much time trying to sort that word so I could correctly caption the picture I took tot send the vet of before and after debridement

Bob’s leg is almost perfectly healed --due in large part to my daily effort at debridement!

[Amberley]

There is more to the performance than just the transformers- length of fence, type of wire or tape, soil moisture, humidity, maintenance etc. You will see variety. But those numbers look pretty high to me - we shoot for 4-5kv here with dry soil.

Here is a decent explanation of joules vs voltage: https://kencove.com/blog/detail/volts-vs-joules

Tinsel for fencing is becoming so common I had to say something

[Foxglove]

@Amberley thank you so much. That the numbers “look pretty high” is reassuring. I leaving for Canada Tuesday and wanted to make sure the fences were working appropriately. The man who installed them is Amish and doesn’t use electricity himself, but seemed very knowledgeable and comfortable with my electric transformers.

All four of my horses are well-versed in electric fences --I think everything will be fine.