Re: Switch-mode supply for bug zapper (fwd)

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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 07:56:13 +0930
From: Matthew Smith <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Switch-mode supply for bug zapper (fwd)

Peter Terren wrote:
<blockquote>
Do you have to rectify it to zap bugs?  If you need DC to charge a
capacitor, perhaps use a flyback diode or just use a standard TV flyback
with integral diode.
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Hmm, good point.

Possibly I do but will be advised by the radio-savvy.

The integrated switcher runs at 100kHz.  I was going to use parallel plates (as 
opposed to concentric grids) through which the flies would pass on their way to 
a small amount of meat (the UV only attracts them at night, along with fifty 
million moths, due to the fact that there's so much of it in the ambient during 
the day).

Would this constitute a transmitter?

Cheers

M

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Matthew Smith
Kadina Business Consultancy
South Australia