Twisted Wire
What is the deal with the twisted wire? How does twisted wire work? What is it for?
Nothing confuses people more than the twisted wire!
Twisted wire is really two regular single wires twisted together. The twisted wire is primarily used to connect the control box to the boundary loop. The great thing about twisted wire is that the dog can walk over this wire without getting the correction.
Note that you cannot use the twisted pair of wires as part of the boundary loop to create a section of the boundary loop that has no correction. The boundary loop can only be made using the regular single wire.
You can make the twisted wire yourself by getting two regular boundary wires and twisting them around each other. You can use an electric drill to speed this up. This is a great way to save a little if you only need a small amount of the twisted wire. However, if you are going to need more than say 20 feet, we advise you buy it pre-twisted. (Twisting more than 20 feet of the wire using an electric drill usually turns into a big mess!)
For more details on using and making twisted wire, take a look at this tutorial video:
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We put in a section of twisted wire hoping to create a pathway for the dog to access the back door but continue to get a signal. Can we slide the wire through a steel pipe to achieve the result we are looking for? We tried using a 1/4″ dia. section of copper but still received the signal. Any help you can suggest would be great.
Thanks in advance
ADMIN – Hi Joe,
Can you describe your layout (or even better, email a diagram)? I am guessing that you want to do a backyard only layout and have the twisted wire as part of the main loop.
The twisted wire cannot be part of the boundary loop. It is only used to connect the boundary loop to the control box. The main loop can only be single wire. If you use the twisted wire as part of the main loop, it will act like single wire and you still get the correction
Putting the wire through a steel pipe will not create a non-correction area.
A good way to do the backyard only, is to run the length of wire that is along the side of the house up through a downspout, along the gutter and then down the downspout on the other side. This will create enough vertical separation that the dog can go in and out of the house without getting the correction.