Comments on: Twisted Wire http://www.dogfencediy.com Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:09:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Joe http://www.dogfencediy.com/faqs/twisted-wire/comment-page-1/#comment-732 Joe Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:26:19 +0000 http://www.dogfencediy.com/?page_id=1387#comment-732 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. 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.

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