What happens if I pee on the electric fence?
If the fence is live at the moment of contact with your urine stream you will wish that you had not done the experiment. I have not ever even considered trying it because I have enough normal pains as it is without deliberately causing any more. I have repaired a few of electric fence chargers in the past and the voltages are several thousand volts which are pulsed about once every second or two. The discharge pulse is extremely rapid and will cause extreme pain. Although I have never done the experiment myself, while I was teaching basic electronics in evening classes in the 1970’s we were discussing the difference between conductors and insulators and I asked the question whether water was a conductor or an insulator of electricity. Most people would automatically say that it was a conductor, which is fair enough since all water that most people will ever come into contact with should be treated as such. I stated that in actuality, pure water (H2O) was actually a poor conductor of el
