How To Clean A Stinger Bug Zapper
linuxman
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SatelliteGuys Pro
- #one
This is totally unrelated to satellite, but is related to electronics and learning how to fix things.
If you call back the mosquito thread I started effectually the 4th of July, you will remember the Bug Zapper I bought to help eliminate them.
Well it quit zapping. The calorie-free still comes on, and I come across null fried on the little switch lath, and the transformer puts out plenty juice to turn on the calorie-free, but goose egg on the zapper.
Hither are some pics of the switch board, the transformer, and how information technology hooks into the back of the unit of measurement. I am suspecting one side of the transformer quit, but that'southward why I am asking here. I put electrical record over the light sensor so the power would stay on for testing.
Any suggestions?
Anole
SatelliteGuys Primary
- #two
dunno
Not knowing exactly how information technology works, I cannot recommend you stick the probes of your new DVM in and take readings. 
I call up the most probable failure would be a broken wire from the transformer to the zap-wires, ...OR
. . . a expressionless bug shorting out the wires.
Give the outside a good cleaning with ... maybe soap 'northward water on a Q-tip, allow it dry, and endeavour again...?
Too, I've seen replacement bulbs for some sort of problems attractor at the 99¢ shop.
Shoot a picture of the whole unit, one of the seedling, and mail any markings on the seedling.
I'll keep an eye out for the fluorescent tubes... if they ever prove up again.
And check your ain local 99¢ chain for such bulbs.
linuxman
Thread Starter
SatelliteGuys Pro
- #3
Not knowing exactly how it works, I cannot recommend you stick the probes of your new DVM in and take readings.
I didn't really want to practise that either. :yikes:
The wires coming out of the transformer are encased in some kind of gel, silicone, or epoxy. They are not exposed for checking.
The seedling works fine and comes on fine. It is on a unlike side of the transformer.
In thest pics, the electric current comes in on a black and a white wire. The blackness wire goes to the switch, and the white wire gets split up with white going to switch and black going to transformer. Black out of transformer to light associates combined with a red from the switch to the calorie-free associates.
No visible wires, simply on the other stop of the transformer, two red wires come up out and go to the connectors on the grid. I for the inside of the filigree, and one for the outside.
I take inspected it closely, and there are no shorts. The connectors are tight, so I would have to say that the red side of the transformer has quit.
Here are some more pics:
linuxman
Thread Starter
SatelliteGuys Pro
- #4
But to make certain at that place were no shorts, I unhooked the 2 cherry wires coming from the far side of the transformer and put the meter on them. It shows like .013 V DC. I tin can put them together and nothing.
Normally that grid has sparks jumping on it all the time.
Maybe I'll take the transformer to Gateway Electronics tomorrow and see if they have one like it. If it isn't to expensive, I'll jut purchase some other one. The thing but toll $45.00 retail, just it is past the xxx day render policy of Lowes, and to ship it in would cost me at least $10.00 in shipping and take to wait 3 weeks before it is back.
Cheap Junk!!!
primestar31
SatelliteGuys Master
- #v
Only to make sure there were no shorts, I unhooked the ii crimson wires coming from the far side of the transformer and put the meter on them. It shows like .013 V DC. I tin put them together and zip.
Ordinarily that filigree has sparks jumping on it all the time.
Maybe I'll take the transformer to Gateway Electronics tomorrow and see if they have 1 like information technology. If information technology isn't to expensive, I'll jut buy another one. The thing merely cost $45.00 retail, but it is past the 30 twenty-four hour period return policy of Lowes, and to send information technology in would price me at to the lowest degree $10.00 in shipping and take to look 3 weeks before information technology is back.
Cheap Junk!!!
Hey, endeavor peeling back the paper over the windings on the transformer a chip. Right where the wires go into it. In that location's probably a wired fuse or cocky-resetting excursion breaker in there. If so, replace the fuse, or jump the circuit breaker with a fuse! It'south possible to zap so many bugs with this, that the "bug juice" shorts out the fuse or snaps the breaker so hard, that information technology won't reset.
linuxman
Thread Starter
SatelliteGuys Pro
- #half dozen
Cheers for the tip!
I'll accept a wait at information technology in the forenoon.
linuxman
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SatelliteGuys Pro
- #7
I but took a quick look at the transformer.
There are 2 parts. The just part that has paper over the windings is the part where the power comes in and that also feeds the calorie-free. That role is working.
The other half of the transformer is encased in epoxy and besides surrounded by plastic. I can see electronics inside the epoxy, but no manner to get to them.
If there is a breaker or fuse for that part of the transformer, it is inside the epoxy.
Anole
SatelliteGuys Primary
- #8
Unhook power before proceeding!
Well, I run across ii lines of attack:
1. double check that there is zippo shorting the innner and outer wire cages together.
Consider unsoldering 1 and so put your DVM on ohms range and bank check between the two wire cages
NO POWER, of course.
You should get the aforementioned reading as if the probes were connected to nil.
2. hard to see in the pictures due to the black background
That footling drinking glass capsule well-nigh 1/4" diameter and three/4" long looks to be an neon lamp and it's been overworked.
Run across the black inside? Can y'all get pictures with a slice of paper nether/behind information technology?
Go to your local store and get an NE2 Neon lamp.
Or, endeavour the 99¢ shop and expect for a night calorie-free with a small-scale orangish glow.
It'll take an NE2 inside.
If it'southward got an LED, it sure as heck won't exist a dim warm orange glow.! -
The neon tube is probably role of the circuit that fires the zap!
linuxman
Thread Starter
SatelliteGuys Pro
- #9
Unhook power before proceeding!
Well, I see two lines of set on:
ane. double check that there is zip shorting the innner and outer wire cages together.
Consider unsoldering one and so put your DVM on ohms range and check betwixt the two wire cages
NO Ability, of grade.
Yous should become the same reading as if the probes were connected to nothing.2. hard to meet in the pictures due to the blackness background
That piddling drinking glass capsule about ane/4" diameter and 3/4" long looks to exist an neon lamp and it's been overworked.
See the black within? Can you get pictures with a piece of paper under/behind it?
Become to your local store and get an NE2 Neon lamp.
Or, attempt the 99¢ store and expect for a night low-cal with a modest orange glow.
It'll take an NE2 inside.
If it'south got an LED, it sure as heck won't be a dim warm orange glow.! -The neon tube is probably part of the circuit that fires the zap!
That is a distinct possibility!
When you start plug information technology in, that piffling lamp lights upwardly, and when the big light under the grid comes on, that little lamp goes out.
Don't know how that figures into the picture, only you may be right, and I wondered about how blackness information technology looks.
linuxman
Thread Starter
SatelliteGuys Pro
- #10
Well my wife drug out the receipt from Lowe'southward and asked why I was wasting fourth dimension trying to ready it.
She says that on the back of the receipt that I have xc days to render it for cash or substitution, so she has it at present and will return it for a new 1.
linuxman
Thread Starter
SatelliteGuys Pro
- #11
My wife merely got back from Lowes where the CSR told her that the "Stinger" problems zapper was a very popular return item this summer. She didn't know whether it was the make or the model, just that had a lot of them returned defective.
So don't purchase the "Stinger" bug zapper from Lowes!
bhelms
Retired & lovin' it!
- #fifteen
Maybe this replacement for your BF-60 lamp would work ?? Matches-up with your Weber model no. 23521 according to the cross-reference list. A lilliputian pricey, just your choice:
http://2getitnow.com/FL-RK-60.html
(I'm big on repairing older equipment that has served me well, fifty-fifty when a new "replacement" might cost less. I might spend that corporeality myself. "They don't make 'em like they used to!" Sorta similar yours truly!)
Welcome, BTW...
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