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From: elson@otc.otca.oz (Elson Markwick)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: HELP!
Message-ID: <2185@otc.otca.oz>
Date: 21 Jan 91 22:42:14 GMT
References: <1991Jan19.052458.7449@wam.umd.edu> <1991Jan19.075940.26652@zoo.toronto.edu> <55124@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
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In article <55124@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> visjames@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>   Wrong-o.  If it's wired properly it should severly shock the person and
>throw them back from the window.  These are AC systems.  The onces that kill
>are DC systems.
Bullshit.  AC will kill just as dead as DC.  The difference is that you feel
the voltage changing with ac - i.e. you get a continual shock.  With DC, you
only feel a shock twice - once as you connect and once as you disconnect.

If you must wire the window, (and before you do, think of the pain of that much
voltage thru your dong), DO NOT wire it direct to the mains.
1. It is dangerous
2. It could fry the wiring in your house if it's not correctly fused.
3. I'm sure it's illegal.

Instead, use an electric fence generator.  These are sourced from a 12V car
battery, and as such are incapable of deliving dangerous amounts of power.
What they do produce is a very short pulse every couple of seconds, of (if
memory serves) around 2000V.  It should be noted that these are current
limited, and aren't dangerous physically (mentally however, shock could be a
problem ;^) 

Reminds of a story of a guy who used to run a cinema type thing way out in the
sticks here in Australia.  At interval, all the men would go out and piss on
the side of his corrugated iron shed.  He wired up a trembler coil from and old
model T Ford - they learnt the lesson pretty quick.


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