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Meanwhile, until such time as these
regulations are generally adopted and enforced, it will pay you
well to make sure that any fence controller that you buy carries
upon it a label that states:--
- Approved by the Industrial Commission of the State of Wisconsin
...or
- Complies with the National Electrical Safety Code.
No other approval is generally recognized
and unless the individual fencer that you buy and use carries one
of these labels you are taking two chances:
- The fencer may be dangerous.
- It may quickly become illegal.
Inasmuch as some publicity has been given
to the Electric Fence Code of the Underwriter's Laboratories, Inc.,
which is commonly call the Underwriter's Code, it seems well to
quote verbatim from a Cornel University Bulletin which says:
"The writer feels strongly that controllers should
not be built to give shocks as heavy as those permitted
in the Underwriter's Code."
We enclose this entire Cornell bulletin
believing that you will find it of interest and value and that it
will go far to set you straight on the laws and regulations
governing electric fencers.
Unfortunately, the very laws that helped
to make some electric fencers safe has also tended to make them
ineffective and of little value especially in dry weather. A
fencer that was giving an illegal shock had to reduce the shock
in order to meet the new requirements with the result that too
many fencers are now being built that are weak enough to be legal
but TOO WEAK to be effective.
This situation also is discussed in the
Cornell Bulletin which says:--
Manufacturers lacking the equipment, knowledge and
skill requisite for
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