Am 19.05.2010 15:18, schrieb Warp:

>> Read the sentence again then, as that's /not/ what I wrote. There's no
>> mentioning of the voltage in that sentence. I was writing about a
>> /probability/ there which I claimed to be very low.
>
>    The probability of what? The voltage being extremely high? Hence you
> make it sound like most of the time the voltage is far from its peak,
> and thus touching the fence is no different than touching eg. a battery.

No, the probability that you /start making/ contact with the wire /the 
very instant/ the pulse goes off (vs. the probability of you /already 
being/ in contact at that moment).

My primary point there being that the picture you draw about the 
operation of a cattle fence applies only to very rare cases, and is 
therefore pretty moot regarding assessment of why it is generally both 
painful but harmless (even though of course the odd scenario needs to be 
taken into account to make sure it is /always/ harmless).

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