Actually MythBusters did a piece on that.
Seems that there was a myth that one could pee on the third rail of an electric
railway (600 VDC in NYC subways) and get away with it unharmed.
So they did their thing and discovered with the high speed camera that after a
certain distance from the source the stream of pee breaks up into individual
drops so it does not conduct electricity.
I have considered making an electric fence around our herb garden on board to
keep the cats out by hooking up the fence wire to my 120 vac line through a
several one megohm resistor.
Anyone think that would be both effective and safe?
Let's see: 120 volts divided by a meg is about a tenth of a milliamp....
While there were two good ideas on how to turn a latching relay on or off using
one wire, nobody came up with a way to use one wire (plus ground and 12 VDC at
each end) to transmit both high temp and low oil alarm signals. I am
surprised. I know we have lots of clever engineers on the List.
Norm
S/V Bandersnatch
Lying Julington Creek
30 07.695N 081 38.484W
----- Original Message -----
From: JohnB
To: [email protected]
Sent: 8/26/2008 12:53:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] recent info about Venezuela
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
anyone tried an electric fence charger?
Puts a whole new light on peeing over the rail at night.
John
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