Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>>> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>>>> Note that the probability that you're making contact with the cattle 
>>>> wire at the very moment that a pulse has just started is /very/ low.
>>>   You make it sound like touching the fence is about the same as touching
>>> a 1.5-volt battery poles. Wouldn't that kind of defeat the whole purpose?
> 
>> The farmer doesn't want to kill the cow. He wants to tingle the cow enough 
>> that the cow learns not to lean against the fence.
> 
>   Hence 1.5 volts isn't going to do it.

Yes, but a very brief high spike, which is what you were responding to, 
*will* do it if the cow is pressing against the fence for several seconds.

He didn't say 1.5 volts. *You* said 1. volts. He said very short pulses.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
    you literally shooting yourself in the foot.

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