I dont know what to make of this. I have had horses for years andnever run into this. On top of that, I work with electricalequipment. This makes no sense at all.....This is a hobby farm.I have several horses and they are in different parts of the farm (dueto size, and gender, and who they get along with). Each section isfences with an electric fence, except the pony has a woven fence (hecrawls under electric fences). Each section has a water trough, all but one are plastic. Each has a250 or 500 watt livestock tank heater which is plugged in when thetemperature is below freezing, to keep the water from freezing. Onegroup of two horses is in the same place they were last winter, havethe same water trough, same electric fence, same everything. A fewweeks ago, I spotted one of the horses kicking the water trough andhim stareing at it like it's going to bite him. The next day theweather warmed up so I unplugged the heater, and he did not kick itagain. One night it got cold so I plugged it in again, and thatnight he was kicking the tank all night again, and doing the wholeroutine as before. The next morning I went out there and found thewater level was low, and the water was warm to touch. I figured hedidnt like the warm water. I unplugged the heater and filled histank. Everything was fine. Last night it got cold again, so Iplugged the heater back in, and all night the OTHER horse was bangingon the tank. I thought maybe the heater got unplugged and there was askin of ice on top. WHen I woke up, both of them were banging on thetank and I went to check. The heater was working, the tank was almostfull, the water was neither freezing or warm. WHAT THE FU#K?OK, normally, I would suspect AC leakage except for one thing. It'splugged into a GFCI. That should have tripped. I stuck my hand inthe water, wearing only some damp tennis shoes and standing in lightsnow. I felt not even the slightest tingle. I waited until they cameback over and started banging...

Can you try switching the heaters? I don't think it is wise to doanything that might cause any animal to shy from their water. I wouldconsider it a very importing issue.

Horses Getting FAKE shocks ?

Jan 05, 2004 25 Replies

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Doug Miller 22 years ago

Made in Communist China. What a shock.

-- Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?

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zxcvbob 22 years ago

I like the way it has counterfeit UL and ULC marks.

Best regards, Bob

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Doug Miller 22 years ago

That should not be a surprise to anyone either, given where it came from.

-- Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?

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Chris Lewis 22 years ago

Too bad it wasn't counterfeit CSA marks. Anybody involved with that within reach of Canadian law would end up in prison.

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Chris Lewis 22 years ago

According to RB :

Unlikely. That was about non-tripping. The issue at hand wasn't to do with tripping per-se.

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irishsf 22 years ago

No, not one of those listed on that site, but yes, it was made in China.

The person who said about the capacitance in the long cord hit the nail on the head. That makes lots of sense. Thanks I sort of lost track of who said what in this thread, but everyone was very helpful.

Thanks to all

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