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Pinball shocked my dog.....I think

By fatality83

5 years ago


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    #1 5 years ago

    Over the weekend I was having a little get together at my house. You know the usual, beer, food and arcade games and of course pinball. Now my dog wears one of those invisible fence type collars but it is one of the ones that you set the transmitter somewhere and it makes a radius area where the dog can go. Think it uses 2.4 ghz radio waves like a cordless phone does. I have only been collecting for a month now so a month ago I had zero games. Now I got 4, two pinballs and two arcade games. I went to let my dog out the back door which I don't do all the time but never had any issues before. This back door is right where all the games are at as well. He was fine once he walked in the room, however once he started going out the door, his collar started beeping and going off like he was outside his boundaries. Now the poor guy is afraid to even go in that room. Since this never happened before, I can only assume the games were causing some type of interference. Anyone else have anything like this happen. I did have the arcade games on before when I let him out that way, so I can only it's the pinball machines causing it

    #4 5 years ago

    saw that coming a few miles away

    #17 5 years ago
    Quoted from vid1900:

    If you lived in a nice neighborhood that does not allow fences, it's the collar or getting run over by a car.
    Once the dog learns that the beep gets higher pitched before the zap comes, they avoid the beeps altogether.

    Exactly, I don't like to use it but I live in a rural area with too much land. To build a fence to go all around my property would be too expensive. Trust me he learned what the beep means and after one or two times of getting a little jolt, he knows where he can't go. Works great. I also don't leave them out unattended but the collar lets him run and explore as opposed to having him on a lead all the time. I would rather my dog have gotten a little jolt then dead from a car hitting him.

    BTW I tested the collar out when I got it. I have it set on the lowest setting, no worse then an static shock. Now back on topic, I turned the pinballs on and couldn't get it to do it again. Not sure what was causing it but don't think it was any of the games

    #33 5 years ago
    Quoted from Robotworkshop:

    The title is a bit misleading. Sounds like one of the pinball machines actually shocked the dog and thought about a missing (or cut off) ground plug or a machine with the hot and neutral reversed. I had a pin that was reversed and got a small shock when touching the game next to it. That was something I immediately fixed.
    In this case it wasn't any of the machines. It was the shock collar that shocked the dog. So it is more of a possible issue with RF interference near enough to what the perimeter wire would create.
    Does it happen when the games are off or just when they are on? As mentioned you can unplug them and try to isolate if a particular machine is the one simulating the perimeter fence.

    Only happened one time when they were one. I tried recreating it with the collar off but couldn't get it to happen again. Not sure it was any of the machines at all. Maybe it was one of those weird things like a garage door opener or something set it off

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