Extreme Dog FenceMax Grade Electric Dog Fence - 1 Dog Kit - 1000 Feet of Heavy Duty -Plus Maximum Duty Wire for Ultimate Performance and Reliability

Just finished installing and using the Max Grade 1000 Ft. system. The system itself is nice, the cable is quality, and it is all made in the USA. I docked one star for the lack of directions in the box (Had to go to the website) and the crappy "power surge protector". Keep reading for my complete review.I purchased the Extreme Dog Fence Max Grade Ultimate, which is just fancy for saying it came with the 14 AWG fence wire with a 60 mil jacket, and 50 feet of 18 AWG twisted wire. All products shown in the picture came without any issues or defects. What the box was lacking was complete instructions on how to use the product. Thank goodness for Youtube in some cases. If you go to the manufacturer's website they have a nice "manual" with tons of info. Would of been great to have that in the box. The few pieces of paper that were in the box had spelling issues to, which I found funny. (That is how you know they are from the USA, too lazy to proof read) The collar I got was "Active" which was perfect. If you are buying, be sure you are getting the system with the correct collar; there are three different types with "Active" being the best for 88% of dogs.The 1000 ft of wire I got was on a spool and of great quality. The jacket (60 mil in my case) was free of any defects and tough. Great manufactured wire overall.The panel is nice and small and the cover is easily removed (no instructions, but easy to figure out). Again, no instructions on how to connect it up, but if you look online or at their silly drawing, you can figure it out. No ground wire, but not needed if you are using their surge protector that comes with the Ultimate system.This brings me to the surge protector, this is one of the biggest reasons I took away a gold star. Compared to the rest of the product, it is a joke. They could of spent a few more pennies to put much better wire connectors on this thing. Wires fall out if anyone breaths on them, including any gravity so be sure to use wire ties and other stuff to remove ALL pressure or you will find some of your wires out. I mean, these things are worse than bad, they want to come out rather than to stay in. The size of this unit is also way to big for its own good. Anyway, it is what it is.The collar is.. well a collar with an electronic shocker thingy. It is "OK" not great, not bad. It takes a 6v Lithium Ion battery that is not rechargeable. They were sure to include documentation about how they make special ones for it, so do not try to buy another brand, rather buy theirs so they can jack the price up. Again, it is what it is, just know this. They do not tell you which direction to install it in the collar (collar is not marked), but if you follow "normal" battery methods, the negative goes in first with the positive on the cap side. The battery comes in the box, not preinstalled. No directions on how to install, but hey, at least it isn't hard to figure out. It works or it does not. (Flat head screwdriver, undo the port, install battery negative side first).After you get everything hooked up, you will find they lose the other half of the gold star for again, no instructions on how to program the collar. The good part of his system is that you can program an unlimited amount of collars all with different settings for different pets. If the battery dies, I am not sure if it retains this info, because mine hasn't died yet, so I can not weigh in on that. To program a collar, you must have the collar in hand and be next to the panel, hold both buttons for ~4 seconds to get in collor program mode, choose your level (depending on your collar type, again mine is active, the levels mean something different), then hit set with the collar right next to the panel to set it. Know that your collar most likely ships with it on the highest shock level.. strange. I would of thought it would come on beep only, but who knows...Lastly, install time. I see other posts saying it takes half a day. I will say it greatly depends on how long your run is, the terrain you are going across, and just how good of job you want to do. It took me 3 days, 7 hours a day. I chose to burry ~750 feet with a shovel (going through mostly woods, so could not use a machine). I knocked a hole in my foundation to get the twisted wire to my basement where I installed the panel and power. It would of been a lot quicker though if I had just thrown the cable on the ground and came out my kitchen window, then again, I am OCD and things need to be right or not at all. You know what is best for you. This was hard work, and I am glad it is over, but it works very well.Would I recommend this to a friend? Yes, but I would like to see the manufacture correct their spelling errors on the few papers they give you and include the real manual rather than making people go online for it. At the VERY least, include a paper that says, go online here 'URL' to see the manual. Lastly, spend a few more pennies to give us a surge protector with real wire connectors... please. (Directed at the supplier, not the consumer).

Happy with this product in every way........ Except the cheap surge protector. I ordered one from another company as a substitute and am hoping to get a credit for the cost of the one that came with the fence. Basically was able to train my two dogs within a day to stay inside their fenced yard.Five star with a good surge protector.

I have a husky and my backyard is surrounded by wood. My husky has escaped multiple times into the wood and so I got this product. He hasn’t escaped since and he doesn’t get to close to the fence.

Product Installation was as simple as it gets. We fenced in 5 acres and it took about 3 times for our French Bulldogs to figure out the boundaries. Purchased system August 2022. We had a issue with the transmitter January 2023. Called tech support. Erin was on the phone after 10 seconds on hold. Within 5 minutes she had a new transmitter headed our way to swap out. Fantastic company and support. Definitely recommend.

We got the pro extreme so that we could lay the wire on the ground without trenching. Time will tell how it holds up. We ran it through a wooden area and the process was easy. The spool got lighter as we worked our way down from 2000 yards. I like not having any splices in the whole run, will hopefully help with line integrity.I did use hooks into a tree at the starting point to ensure that the starting splice stays out of water / snow. The supplied silicon splice kits are really nice and great bonus. I used electrical tape as well, but had to remove it as it made it to thick to get into the splice kit.The only negative I have is that the attachment points on the ground kit and main control board are flimsy. Great gauge and protection on the wire and everything included in the kit, but then flimsy attachment points.Once hooked up we were obviously nervous if it would work. Several hours laying it out in the middle of winter and chipping down one road crossing... It worked like a charm though. Our dog has used a shock collar in the past as we tried to fix him running off (no success), so he knew what the signal meant immediately. So far three days without picking the dog up in the neighborhood and we are very happy with the system.Will see how above ground holds up with time and nervous about that, but so far so good

After spending a great deal of time trying to increase the correction level we gave up and made the phone call. There are three correction levels listed in the book, timid, active and hyper for more aggressive dogs . What the book does not tell you is you need different collars for different levels. They no longer even sell the timid collar. The kit comes with the active category collar. If your dog is extremely stubborn or aggressive you need a different collar in order to program into the hyper setting. The active collar, although you can program up to 8, the highest correction level is actually number 5. Above 5 is called progressive, whatever that means. I still don’t know what that means. We also learned that sometimes you need to remove the cover to the unit in order to get the hold down buttons to engage. Although we received the kit a little over a month ago it’s only been in use for two weeks. When we learned there is an LED light on the collar we were unable to get it to light up following the customer service instructions.Fortunately we had already ordered replacement batteries and then the light lit. I think the battery may have been old when we received it. The manual is poorly written and really should be updated. Now that I’m through grumbling, I do want to tell you I think the system is a good system. My boyfriend had owned his own invisible fence company for quite a few years back in time and he feels it’s a good system. It’s just updatting the manual could improve the owners satisfaction with the system immensely.