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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That would make a lot of sense, but as we can see the stringers are connected together, meaning they'd just short out if they were alternate polarities. To me this indicates that it's like a standard livestock fence, with an electrode in the ground somewhere and the circuit completing through the animal.

However, considering my 16'x48' pig enclosure required a three-foot rod to be grounded, a system large enough for a sauropod would need a lot of grounding. Considering this, the fact that they used a circuit-through-animal design indicates it probably wasn't the best way to do it.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Maybe the stringer spacers are polymer though. Like those separation bars you see on residential power lines

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Maybe they’re polymer but they look pretty metallic and there’s an awful lot of them. Plus if the stringers are under enough tension for a full grown man to climb them they wouldn’t need separators.