Hi Jewel, If this is the usual electric fence then that cable is a single conductor right?
What you want then is to keep the bare copper from contacting the ground, particularly wet ground. Simply wrapping it tightly with that self sticking tape would easily be sufficient however your jar would be fine except that water could get into the jar and make the short to ground. I would be tempted in that case to pour wax or silicone calking into the jar using the jar as a form to contain the mess and filling deep enough to cover the connecting clamp so that all exposed metal is covered. You could leave the jar on or cut it off it wouldn't matter, of importance is that the conductor is insulated from the wet soil. You could just seal around the holes you have made and the thread of the lid to the jar but you risk that seal would fail and once water gets into the jar or if it cracks you lose the insulation properties. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jewel" <[email protected]> To: "bhm" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 8:34 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Underground electricity cable >I have widened a gateway under which runs the cable carrying the >electricity to my hot wire fence. > Consequently, I have had to extend the cable. > Preventing the joint from coming in contact with water and soil: both > implacable enemies of > electricity: is the essential component to making the extension work. > What I have done is to drill a hole in the lid and bottom of a plastic > jar: fed the cable through > the holes so that one cable has the lid threaded on to it, and the other, > the jar itself. I then > clamped the two cables together and pulled the cable back so that the > clamp is enclosed within the > jar and screwed the lid on. > I haven't reburied the cable yet, as I wanted to know if you think that > what I have done, to date, > is sufficient protection. > When I do dig the cable back in, I plan to put a brick on either side of > the jar so that, if a > vehicle should pass over top of it, it will be the bricks that will take > the weight, leaving the jar > unhurt! > I would have preferred to use a glass jar, but I did not know how to drill > a hole through glass: > hence the ubiquitous plastic jar. > If I had used a glass jar, its life within the ground would be very long, > but what about the > plastic. > It is not too late to change the jars if anyone can tell me a good, safe > way to drill through glass! > Any better ideas will be studied and evaluated for their betterness! > > Jewel > > > ------------------------------------ > > Send any questions regarding list management to: > [email protected] > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 > Or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various > List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ > > Visit the archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following > address for more information: > http://www.jaws-users.com/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [email protected]! Groups Links > > > > >
