Electric Arc Across Bird Poop

This is what happens when everything goes just right. A bird pooped right on our electric fence wire. Then it rained. I walked out of the house and could hear the popping from about 50 yards away. Despite the fact that the video doesn't show it, there's a spark every time you hear it pop.

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• fence
• electricity
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• spark
• arc
• bird

[jetstream550]

Why do you have an electric fence? o-o

Defence against the storm troopers?

[dperdue]

@jetstream550 No, we long ago defeated the storm troopers. This is just to keep our cows contained.

[stdavross666]

how mach voltage here? in AU the standards state 10000V at 1 HZ is this the same?

[dperdue]

@stdavross666 I can't tell you exactly, the goal is probably 10000v, but this fence was probably not getting there

[lonewolfintj]

Why do you have an electric fence? To keep people out? To keep animals in? (Looks like a rural environment, from what little I can see in this video, which is why the animals idea came to my mind.) An electric fence isn't exactly something you see in front of most homes, so I'm curious.

[dperdue]

Keeping cows in. They're actually very popular around here (Middle Georgia).

[Emjai75]

The bird probably landed on the fence and got the shit shocked out of it! lol

[cbailey78]

60 arcs-per-minute. sounds like a clock tick!

[StrawberrySmothies]

thats incredeably interesting

[awesomelightning]

XD. Birdy went bye bye. z :O must touch it! (no not the dead bird, the spark)

[BurtBartlow]

@dperdue Nice job. Storm Troopers are a formitable enemy.

[mquiroz90]

fences like that is like from the jurassic park to keep dinos put