There’s just something unsettling about clicking on a link and getting an article written in German and a close up of a guys crotch.
The zap only lasted a split second. The electric fence sends a pulse every 10 seconds or so one had to keep the stream of pee on the wire continuously, which is not easy to do when you are anticipating getting shocked.
I got shocked by the electric fence a number of times while carelessly climbing through the barbed wire. As stated above, the current on an electric fence is not continuous, it is a pulse that lasts for a split second and it pulses every 10 seconds or so. All the kids in the neighborhood were shocked at least once, most more often and none of us were killed.
Didn’t they also use a much larger tube? I seem to recall a horse whinney sound when the replaced the realistically sized tube with a half-inch inside diameter one…
Huh. The Mythbusters might have to visit this one yet again. They busted it the first time and then decided it was plausible, but unlikely, if you were peeing on an electric fence.
Yeah, I remember that. Maybe the electricity they used was household a/c, though, at 110v or 220v. I’ll bet power line electric is d/c and much higher voltage!
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So wrong!
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Electric fences are much lower voltage and less amp, which will give you a little jolt, but that’s it… unless you have a pacemaker or heart condition.
Powerlines are A/C, it travels a longer distance with less power lost than D/C.
Americans and their obsession with “The Hoff”… it’s just insane.
Words fail me.
Two-click rule! Two-click rule!
So that’s what dunkin donuts are dunked in.
The electric fence on our farm ran around 500,000 Volts. It had to be strong enough to go through a dumb cow’s hair and skull and get them to not walk through the fence. That is enough voltage to arc a little.
But you are correct, the amperage is much less.
Touching the tip of my finger would give a jolt up to the midpoint of my upper arm, but never killed me.
I’ve mentioned this elsewhere, but when I was a freshman in college, I was part of a group that talked a reasonably obnoxious drunk fratrat into peeing on the sparkplug of a running lawnmower. It was quite hilarious at the time (we were making jokes about how his eyes didn’t stop spinning in opposite directions for an hour, etc.), but with good old 20-20 hindsight and the wisdom of age, I realize that he could have been seriously hurt or killed by it.
My favorite response to “How do you know you won’t like it if you’ve never tried it?” Has always been: “I’ve never slid down a ten foot razor blade into a vat of alcohol, but I know I wouldn’t like it.”
That’s also on my list of ways I don’t want to go.
Maybe 50,000 volts, but never 500,000 volts!
The breakdown voltage of dry air is around 33 Kv/cm. So, 500,000 volts would make sparks = 500,000/33,000 = 15cm or 6" long!
Six inches does seem a little long. And I did trust that the labeling on the tester we had was accurate. Apparently not. Sparks were around half an inch.
It looks like it is urban legend still. An autopsy indicated he was electrocuted by touching the downed power line with his hand: MyNorthwest.com - MyNorthwest.com
And 50,000/33,000 = 1.51cm, which is about right.
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That would be ‘grounding rod’…
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