[Sangreaal]

Quote: Originally Posted by bekko Sangreaal, 20kva sounds like a lot of juice. Is that safe to have around the house? -stevehopk

Yessiree, Steve. Quite safe, but very alarming to those that get up close and personal with it. Though it is a lot of volts, there is only milliamps pushing it. That, and there's two different kinds of delivery--a constant current where the wire is hot all the time and a pulsating current, so the offender has about half a second of zapping at a time.


I have the pulsating type, good for 20 miles of fencing. That little 16 gauge aluminum wire my 10 year old stepdaughter can break if she ran through it keeps in 2500lb warhorses--even the stud colt. My neighbor raises brahma bucking bulls for rodeo (those monsters are mean and they'll run you out of their pasture as soon as you step off the tractor), and keeps them all in with hot-tape--thin wires woven through white or yellow polyethylene for visibility and added tensile strength.

You'd think that if such large and fearless animals can respect those boudaries, a scrawny stilt-legged bird would.

Marie