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<br>Fourmilab is surrounded on three sides by farmland. Within the summer, bugs are in every single place. Faced with this example, defence in depth is the only choice: window screens, bats, Odonata on the pond, fly strips on the windows and swatters in every room, and as the last stage of terminal defence, high voltage bug zappers with ultraviolet fluorescent lures. These should not elegant units, but they get the job executed. The principle couldn't be less complicated-flying insects, whose compound eyes see long-wave ultraviolet light that mammalian eyes do not, [Zap Zone Defender Experience](http://pasarinko.zeroweb.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=notice&wr_id=7139788) are attracted by the lure tube, which seems to emit a dim blue mild to humans. To succeed in the light, they have to fly between wires electrified with between 4 and eight kilovolts which, when the insect completes the circuit, kill-a-bug. The one disadvantage (at the very least if you are not a flying insect) is that they do not appear to final very long. After a bit of a couple of summer, the bulb either begins to flash on and off like a strobe mild or simply refuses to gentle in any respect.<br>
<br>Replacement bulbs are readily available and simple to install, however in my expertise, a minimum of half the time changing the bulb would not fix the issue. With no light to draw the insects, a zapper is ineffective, so though its excessive voltage subsystem continues to work perfectly, most individuals junk it when changing the bulb would not make it light up. I'm approach too low-cost to be happy with such a state of affairs, so I decided to open up a failed bug zapper and see what was going on. The supply of the issue proved to be so simple as I expected and as simple to treatment, so within the hope of saving any person else the trouble of figuring it out, I've scribbled these notes on how you can repair your own bug zappers. These directions pertain to bug zappers made by the Windhager company of Salzburg, Austria, who've a dominant market share on this obscure industry right here in Central Europe.<br>
<br>Obviously, in case you have a bug zapper made by another company, [Zap Zone Defender](http://pasarinko.zeroweb.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=notice&wr_id=7139816) it is going to look totally different inside and should conceivably use a wholly completely different circuit for the fluorescent lamp. Unless you understand what you are doing and know enough electronics to be assured you are not going to do something silly, it's best to depart things properly enough alone and get a new bug zapper. Further, we'll be disassembling and modifying a machine which, when opened up, has exposed connections to probably lethal mains present and [Zap Zone Defender Experience](http://101.200.33.64:3000/kittys37143289/3219zap-zone-defender-device/wiki/How+does+Bug+Bulb+Mosquito+Killer+Work%253F) very unpleasant if not deadly high voltage. In case you are sufficiently silly or scatterbrained that you're prone to neglect to drag the mains plug before sticking your hand inside the guts of a bug zapper, it is best to stop reading immediately and select some safer challenge, like making microwave popcorn. Initially, before beginning this procedure, be sure you strive replacing the bulb and see if that fixes the problem.<br>
<br>If it does, you have saved a number of time and, if not, you are going to wish a alternative bulb eventually, so why not have one on hand when the time comes? If a new bulb doesn't do the trick, the problem is sort of actually a failed fluorescent starter contained in the box, so we'll must open it up. You probably did remember to unplug the zapper earlier than starting to disassemble it, didn't you? First, take away the bug catcher tray at the underside of the zapper, taking care not to spill useless bugs all over the floor or your work area. Depending on the model, the two halves of the physique of the bug zapper are fastened along with four or six screws. On "industrial" models, [Zap Zone Defender](https://championsleage.review/wiki/User:MoseThrossell18) these are 2 mm metric machine screws and nuts, but some "consumer" models use infernal "split slot" screws that are meant to keep you from opening up the device. You see, you are a client, so you are anticipated to eat-buy, buy, buy, not mend things which break.<br>