Hi I am hoping that someone can shed some light on an incident that happened to me last summer. I was taking down some electric fencing after having checked that the battery was disconnected and I got a shock from it. Several attempts (and shocks) later, my brain started working and I up-rooted a couple of fence posts and dropped the fencing onto the ground to earth it. I was a bit puzzled about how the fence continued to be live after it was disconnected from the power source until someone said that this was caused by the nearby electricity pylon (fence was only about 10 feet from the base of the pylon). So my questions are: Is this a credible explanation? If it is, how much difference can a pylon make to the current in an electric fence? Can anything else be effected by the proximity of a pylon? Jeni

Hi Bleve I can understand getting one shock from the fence after is was disconnected but on this occasion I got probably a dozen or so shocks (because the fence had to come down and I kept trying to get it down). I have had a fair bit of experience with electric fences and have never had this happen before or since. Can the capacitor hold enough of a charge to give repeated shocks? Jeni