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#481 – An Interview with Paul Thompson
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Welcome, Paul Thompson, CEO of Pakton Technology
- Pakton make electric fence controllers
- Dave found a Pakton controller in the dumpster
- Paul thinks it was sent out for EMC testing and never came back
- Transformer
- SCR
- MOV
- Follow @JVAtechnologies on Twitter (the brand behind Pakton)