| Author | Message | ||
     Robert k (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted From: 203.217.86.235 |
Do you think it would be possible to create a home made fly zapper out of say a 6 volt battery and a large capacator? | ||
| scifeli (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted From: 65.6.164.180 |
Well you’d need high voltage and a capacitor. There are several ways to do this, you could have a wire mesh connected to a capacitor charged via a high voltage transformer and a diode to rectify the output. To get the high voltage you could just continually short the transformer with a switch or use an oscillator. To attract the bugs you’d need a light source. If you are targeting mosquitoes a carbon dioxide emitter. | ||
| Nobody New member Username: Jared Post Number: 3 Registered: 4-2005 |
What is resin? Does it dry clear? I need info. | ||
| jar4 (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted From: 24.237.154.33 |
What is resin? Does it dry clear? I need info. | ||
| Zach Gerner (Zach_gern_curds) New member Username: Zach_gern_curds Post Number: 3 Registered: 10-2006 |
What does resin have to do with fly zappers? | ||
| Marcus Shaw (Schorhr) Member Username: Schorhr Post Number: 15 Registered: 9-2006 |
Only few bugs get zapped: http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/hortnews/1996/6-14-1996/bugzapper.html ;-) Dangerous to play with such a circuit, high voltage can be dangerous not only to bugs. | ||
| Simon Quellen Field (Sfield) Senior Member Username: Sfield Post Number: 1522 Registered: 12-2004 |
They are using the wrong bait. Try carbon dioxide instead of light. A box of baking soda on a heater should do it. A bit of nichrome wire should suffice to heat the bicarbonate so that it releases carbon dioxide. | ||
| scott (Ichyc) Senior Member Username: Ichyc Post Number: 126 Registered: 6-2006 |
Hey speaking of nichrome wire, is it reusable like can you use it several times or dose it just burn out after the first use? | ||
| Simon Quellen Field (Sfield) Senior Member Username: Sfield Post Number: 1525 Registered: 12-2004 |
If they burned out after the first use, toasters would have to be really cheap... The glowing wires in the toaster are made of nickel-chromium alloy, called nichrome for short. | ||
| scott (Ichyc) Senior Member Username: Ichyc Post Number: 127 Registered: 6-2006 |
O I didn't know that toasters used nichrome for a heating element cool I thought that the wire would burn out after one use cause I plan to use them for rocket igniters. If it wasn't reusable I was going to just use regular igniters but now I can save a lot of money thanks I should have Benn using nichrome wire all of the time. |
