How To Clean The Stinger Bug Zapper
linuxman
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SatelliteGuys Pro
- #ane
This is totally unrelated to satellite, merely is related to electronics and learning how to prepare things.
If you call up the mosquito thread I started around the 4th of July, you will remember the Bug Zapper I bought to aid eliminate them.
Well it quit zapping. The light still comes on, and I meet nothing fried on the little switch board, and the transformer puts out plenty juice to turn on the light, but nothing on the zapper.
Here are some pics of the switch board, the transformer, and how information technology hooks into the back of the unit. I am suspecting one side of the transformer quit, only that's why I am asking here. I put electrical tape over the lite sensor so the ability would stay on for testing.
Whatever suggestions?
Anole
SatelliteGuys Master
- #2
dunno
Non knowing exactly how it works, I cannot recommend you stick the probes of your new DVM in and take readings. 
I think the nigh likely failure would be a cleaved wire from the transformer to the zap-wires, ...OR
. . . a dead bug shorting out the wires.
Requite the exterior a skillful cleaning with ... mayhap soap 'n water on a Q-tip, let it dry out, and try once again...?
Also, I've seen replacement bulbs for some sort of bug attractor at the 99¢ store.
Shoot a moving-picture show 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 show up over again.
And check your own local 99¢ chain for such bulbs.
linuxman
Thread Starter
SatelliteGuys Pro
- #three
Non knowing exactly how information technology works, I cannot recommend y'all stick the probes of your new DVM in and take readings.
I didn't really want to exercise 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 bulb works fine and comes on fine. It is on a different side of the transformer.
In thest pics, the current comes in on a black and a white wire. The blackness wire goes to the switch, and the white wire gets split with white going to switch and black going to transformer. Black out of transformer to lite associates combined with a red from the switch to the low-cal assembly.
No visible wires, but on the other end of the transformer, two red wires come out and become to the connectors on the filigree. One for the inside of the grid, and one for the outside.
I accept inspected it closely, and at that place are no shorts. The connectors are tight, so I would accept to say that the cherry-red side of the transformer has quit.
Here are some more pics:
linuxman
Thread Starter
SatelliteGuys Pro
- #4
Just to make sure there were no shorts, I unhooked the 2 red wires coming from the far side of the transformer and put the meter on them. It shows like .013 V DC. I can put them together and aught.
Usually that grid has sparks jumping on information technology all the time.
Peradventure I'll take the transformer to Gateway Electronics tomorrow and see if they have one similar it. If it isn't to expensive, I'll jut buy another 1. The thing only cost $45.00 retail, only information technology is by the 30 day return 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 Primary
- #5
Merely to make sure there were no shorts, I unhooked the two red wires coming from the far side of the transformer and put the meter on them. It shows like .013 V DC. I can put them together and zilch.
Usually that grid has sparks jumping on it all the fourth dimension.
Maybe I'll take the transformer to Gateway Electronics tomorrow and meet if they have 1 similar it. If it isn't to expensive, I'll jut buy another one. The thing merely price $45.00 retail, but information technology is past the xxx day render policy of Lowes, and to send it in would toll me at to the lowest degree $ten.00 in shipping and have to wait 3 weeks before it is back.
Inexpensive Junk!!!
Hey, attempt peeling dorsum the paper over the windings on the transformer a bit. Right where the wires go into information technology. There's probably a wired fuse or self-resetting circuit billow in in that location. If so, supervene upon the fuse, or leap the circuit breaker with a fuse! It'due south possible to zap then many bugs with this, that the "problems juice" shorts out the fuse or snaps the breaker and so hard, that information technology won't reset.
linuxman
Thread Starter
SatelliteGuys Pro
- #six
Thanks for the tip!
I'll accept a await at information technology in the morning.
linuxman
Thread Starter
SatelliteGuys Pro
- #7
I just took a quick look at the transformer.
At that place are two parts. The only part that has paper over the windings is the role where the power comes in and that also feeds the light. That part is working.
The other half of the transformer is encased in epoxy and too surrounded by plastic. I can see electronics inside the epoxy, but no way to get to them.
If there is a breaker or fuse for that function of the transformer, it is inside the epoxy.
Anole
SatelliteGuys Master
- #viii
Unhook power before proceeding!
Well, I see two lines of assail:
i. double bank check that there is zero shorting the innner and outer wire cages together.
Consider unsoldering one and then put your DVM on ohms range and check betwixt the two wire cages
NO POWER, of course.
You should get the aforementioned reading equally if the probes were continued to nothing.
2. hard to see in the pictures due to the blackness groundwork
That little drinking glass sheathing nigh one/four" bore and 3/4" long looks to be an neon lamp and information technology's been overworked.
See the black inside? Can you get pictures with a piece of paper nether/behind it?
Become to your local shop and get an NE2 Neon lamp.
Or, try the 99¢ store and wait for a night light with a pocket-size orange glow.
It'll accept 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 function of the excursion that fires the zap!
linuxman
Thread Starter
SatelliteGuys Pro
- #nine
Unhook power earlier proceeding!
Well, I see two lines of attack:
1. double cheque that there is aught shorting the innner and outer wire cages together.
Consider unsoldering one and then put your DVM on ohms range and check between the two wire cages
NO Ability, of form.
Yous should get the same reading as if the probes were connected to nil.2. hard to see in the pictures due to the black groundwork
That little glass capsule about 1/4" diameter and 3/4" long looks to be an neon lamp and it's been overworked.
See the black within? Can yous get pictures with a piece of paper under/behind it?
Go to your local shop and go an NE2 Neon lamp.
Or, try the 99¢ shop and look for a night light with a small-scale orangish glow.
Information technology'll accept an NE2 inside.
If it's got an LED, it sure as heck won't be a dim warm orange glow.! -The neon tube is probably function of the circuit that fires the zap!
That is a distinct possibility!
When you first plug it in, that little lamp lights up, and when the big light under the grid comes on, that niggling lamp goes out.
Don't know how that figures into the picture, but you may be correct, and I wondered virtually how black it looks.
linuxman
Thread Starter
SatelliteGuys Pro
- #ten
Well my wife drug out the receipt from Lowe'due south and asked why I was wasting time trying to fix it.
She says that on the back of the receipt that I have 90 days to return it for cash or exchange, so she has it at present and will return it for a new one.
linuxman
Thread Starter
SatelliteGuys Pro
- #11
My wife only got back from Lowes where the CSR told her that the "Stinger" bug zapper was a very popular return item this summer. She didn't know whether it was the brand or the model, simply that had a lot of them returned defective.
So don't buy the "Stinger" bug zapper from Lowes!
bhelms
Retired & lovin' it!
- #fifteen
Perhaps this replacement for your BF-sixty lamp would work ?? Matches-upwards with your Weber model no. 23521 according to the cross-reference list. A footling pricey, but your choice:
http://2getitnow.com/FL-RK-60.html
(I'1000 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 like yours truly!)
Welcome, BTW...
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