Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
> >> Warp wrote:
> >>> clipka <ano### [at] anonymous org> 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.
I didn't say he said 1.5 volts. I said that "you make it sound like it was
like 1.5 volts or something" (instead of a huge shock).
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- Warp
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