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Kill a fly in mid-air?

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BrokenYugo:

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--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on August 30, 2023, 07:40:11 am ---Fruit flies and the smaller bloodsucking varieties are too small for the electric swatter to zap them.  They just pass through. >:(

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Try adding a doubler? The crappy 630V film cap they usually use on the output tends to degrade fast anyway.

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The problem with that is the stink larger zapped flies will make: burned chitin smells awful.  Making a swatter with smaller spacing would work, though.


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That's the thing though, once most of the metallization is burned out of that crappy underspecified cap you have to "fry" them and make them smell even more to get the kill. To work right they need two things, enough static voltage across the grids that any insect passing through will start an arc, and a capacitor to finish the job, sized to vaporize a mosquito and instantly kill flies, wasps, etc. Obviously the output capacitor would be reduced to keep the energy reasonable and keep it reasonably safe to fingers.

iMo:
We - all the contributors here - are actually the invasive species for all the flies you have mentioned above  :)

Nominal Animal:

--- Quote from: iMo on August 31, 2023, 02:49:19 pm ---We - all the contributors here - are actually the invasive species for all the flies you have mentioned above  :)

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So is everything that uses oxygen respiration for Clostridium botulinum.

iMo:
All the flies were here, say, 300.000.000 years before the eevblog era..  >:D

Nominal Animal:

--- Quote from: iMo on August 31, 2023, 03:08:15 pm ---All the flies were here, say, 300.000.000 years before the eevblog era..  >:D

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And anaerobic bacteria like Clostridium botulinum precedes all multicellular oxygen-using life by half a billion years.

Are you implying we should respect their 'dibs' and die of botulism?  You go first.

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