electric fence issue

[gnfencer]

I have a customer I recently put up an electric fence for and when it rains the trip switch in he house goes,

Any ideas what could be causing this , and how would be the way to diagnose it.

 

I have one gateway where I ran a plain wire under, through an alkathene pipe instead of lead out as I ran out of lead out I'm wondering if water is gathering in this pipe causing a short.

 

The unit is the only other problem I can think of.

[bobh]

Earth?

[philcaegrug]

It's earthing somewhere. Either where you run it under the gateway or something is touching along the length of fence.

[gnfencer]

But all is fine when dry, I will replace the wire u der gate with lead out see if that solves it for starters.

[cornish wood burner]

If the trip has an RCD then the leakage current to earth will probably be the cause. Wet and more current to earth . 30 ma trip I expect?

[gnfencer]

And the remedy for this would be what, would running line out instead of the line wire be the solution also an additional earth stake knocked in I'm thinking.

[gnfencer]

If the trip has an RCD then the leakage current to earth will probably be the cause. Wet and more current to earth . 30 ma trip I expect?

 

Layman's terms please!

[cornish wood burner]

Layman's terms please!

 

Residual current device. It measures current out in the positive and current back in the negative. Any difference is going to earth. More than 0.03 Amp then it trips. A tiny leakage current to earth will trip it. A person should be safe taking a 30 ma 240 v shock which is why they are fitted to socket ringmains

[C.J]

I would investigate the mains side of the energiser not the high voltage output.

[gnfencer]

What is the best way to investigate that is it a sparky job?