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Outdoor Configurations
There are unlimited ways to configure an underground pet fence and the following images will give you some general layout options. The first image, at the left, illustrates a basic, single loop fence which is laid out to give your pet the run of your entire property with no "off limits" areas. You will notice that there is a twisted pair of wires in the illustration that runs from the transmitter to the perimiter of the yard. Once the wire reaches the perimiter, it becomes a single wire that runs around the yard. The twisted wire carries the signal to the single wire, but the twisted wire does not emit a signal. Therefore your pet can cross the twisted wires at will. The single wire however emits the signal that is detected by your pet's receiver collar and he can not cross the single wire.
The image at the right is a simple back yard loop. What many people find difficult to comprehend is that the dog fence wire must originate and terminate at the transmitter, thus completing a loop or circuit. Therefore, if you wish to keep your pet in the back yard and do not want to run any wire in the front yard you must in essence, run the wire around the back yard twice in a horseshoe shaped configuration. The drawback to this sort of installation is that there must be a significant distance between the two wires or you may create a cancellation effect similar to the twisted pair of wires in the illustration above. This means that your pet will have less yard because the second pass that is made with the wire is a significant distance inside of your property line. But there are other options to achieve this effect:
The illustration at the left shows a "zoned" configuration that can be acheived with an underground pet fence. Two zones are depicted in this image, a front yard zone, and a back yard zone, but an infinate number of zones are possible depending on your property. The advantages of this type of a configuration are: 1) You have the capability of restricting your pet only to the back yard as you do in the previous illustration but you can acheive this with a single wire. Therefore you have not given up any extra space by running around the back yard twice. 2) You have the option of having your pet use the front yard if you wish. 3) If your pet sneeks out the front door there is something there to stop him before he reaches the street. 4) You can leave the service door to your garage and your overhead garage door open, and now your dog has the run of the entire yard by passing through the garage.
In the illustration at the right we have tapped into the perimiter wire and run a twisted pair of wires over to the pond and then we have a single wire running around the pond. This creates an "off limits" area and your pet can not get into the pond. This type of installation is also often used to keep pets out of swimming pools, gardens, kids play areas, garden sheds that contain chemicals, etc.
You can also protect that expensive landscaping from digging and chewing. You can see in the image at the left, that we have hooked a second set of twisted wires to the transmitter and run it to a single wire loop around the landscaping and then we tapped into the main wire at the top of the image and ran a twisted pair of wires to the landscaping in that area. Our landscaping is now pet free and everybody is happy! For more information on how a Dog Guard outdoor fence operates click here.
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