Speedrite Digital Fault Finder

This is the first time I've ever felt compelled to write a product. We run a stocker cattle operation and secure our pastures with 6 strand high tensile fence. We energize 3 strands over multiple pastures. We had two loads of new feeder calves getting delivered and realized the fence wasn't charging properly. The fault finder quickly helped locate a short that was caused by a faulty post insulator near the far end of the pasture. The insulator was nearly 15 years old and looked fine to the naked eye. Without the fault finder, we would still be looking for the culprit. I highly recommend this handy tool.

Got this unit to work on my father's fences. I immediately realized the value this unit provides. Testing, locating and correcting even minor faults was very easy. Unfortunately, as I was bouncing around on the four-wheeler, I lost it in the tall grass and was unable to find it. That night I got back on line and ordered another one (I put an idiot string on the new one when it came in).While it's fairly expensive it's very easy to use and worth every cent. Just beware.. if your fencer/energizer is faulty you can get shocked through the unit. One of my father's fencers was faulty and I got nailed hard enough that I am fairly sure it would have killed any cattle that touched the fence. I probably wouldn't have noticed the faulty unit without this unit.

Works as advertised, but unfortunately the fault detection feature does not work on a chicken wire fence. I suspect this is because the current has multiple parallel paths making the current in any one strand of the fence too low for the tool to detect, however I have tested a workaround that will be better than nothing for my situation. I have a long electrified chicken wire fence to keep squirrels and other rodents out of my citrus trees. The fence poles are 8 to 10 feet apart. I will put a second pole about 4 inches away from an existing pole at every 10th pole. Then I will cut all but one strand of the chicken wire between the 4 inch spaced poles. The gap between the cut wires will be small enough to still keep the rodents out and the single strand of wire connecting the 100 foot sections of fence will carry all the current. I can use the tool at the single strand connections to determine the direction of the fault. It is not an ideal solution but will get me to the 100 foot section of fence with the problem. Putting double poles at each pole location would be ideal for finding faults, but is too costly and time consuming.

Saved me so much time trying to find an issue on my high tinsel.

Once you get the hang of it, this is a very easy to use and read tool. Really helped me to improve the power all along the fencing at two vineyards. using the readings, i found how important it was to water the ground rod area fairly frequently to keep the fence power up and the animals out.

I would have told people they were nuts buying a fence tester for over a C-note! This tool is worth every dime!

This fence tester has saved me a lot of time trying to find the "break" in my electric fence. It is easy to use and points to the direction of the problem! Although i hesitated for quite some time before spending $100+, I now wish I had done it sooner!

I love that I can measure my fence in strong day light and can see the read out. Improvements would be to make the area in the back where you place the wire wider. I can't fit my polyrope into it. The metal part on the top is okay to make measurements but hard to keep balanced on the polyrope to read.