clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 17.05.2010 21:46, schrieb Warp:

> >> 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.

> Well, with a proper circuit you /can/ power the whole thing with a 1.5 V 
> battery, if only for limited time.

  The point was that something like 1.5 volts between the wire and the
ground isn't going to do anything. You need something like 40 kilovolts
between them. Only then will you get that huge shock when you touch it.
(How you get it charged and with what, is an irrelevant question.)

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                                                          - Warp

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