Electronic Fly / Mosquito Trap | Can I Fix It?

My Daughter asked if I could have a look at this electronic fly / Mosquito trap as my Son-in-law plugged the wrong power supply into it and zapped it!
It is just totally dead and shows no signs of life. Let's take it apart, see if we can diagnose the problem and hopefully get it working again.

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[dorsetallsorts]

Bloomin' heck those were small components that you removed and replaced. I was very impressed!

[Dutch_off_grid_homesteading]

Heya, wel it works maybe use the button on top as the make contact button for the power

[coondogtheman]

Nice MacGyver bypass. If I had this trap I'd add a mechanical on off switch to those two points that you shorted and the light and fan came on. But a blob of solder works just as good.

[frozerinosrepairs]

Happy fathers day . Great video again ❤❤

[dianeramakers]

Impressed how fast you soldered the two resistors back.
By the way, for measuring smd resistors I have measuring tweezers which are very handy. You just hook up the wires of these tweezers to your meter and grab both ends of the smd resistor with the tweezers.

[BeezyKing]

3:55... that's exactly what it does, just sucks bugs into the bottom and traps them (effectively alive until dead).... I have one exactly like this one, but molded differently for the 'inlet' part of it... it uses a 5v "PC" style fan

[wisheruk]

Great fix nice work around, I was cringing as I saw the big choke and cap for the ccfl tube, I was thinking he’s gonna get a bolt up his arm in a minute poke his fingers about 😊lol

[inothome]

Good work around, only thing you could have checked was the cheap momentary button. They get crap in them and can not fully open, but it did make a good connection when pressed. But still, on all the time isn't an issue anyway.

[chrissavage]

That looks like a fix for a lot of Milwaukee faults too…. ;)

[bones]

Nice one. Skills. A simple switch on the power lead would have made it even better.

[MostlyPosative-njex]

Some of those smd components are too small for me to work with and it seems like you can handle them with ease. Anything smaller than 1806 (I believe that might be 4516 for Metric Land) and I quit. Great job on the workaround.

[elsaarmstrong-zpng]

My wife has a thing like a tennis racket which generates about 2 Kvolt at micro amps ! When she hits a bluebottle there is a blue spark and zaps the fly! Sometimes it only stuns them but they’re easy prey to kill then! It only needs a pp3 9 volt battery and lasts for ages! Fraser

[dashbrj]

Things like this shouldn't need a micro controller. Some descrete components would suffice to make the LDR turn it on at night, If you have a problem with flies, why wouldn't you want this thing running 24/7?

[MrEwool]

Could always place it in a smart outlet or a outlet with a timer. Was it possible to short the on/off switch and still have the light sensor in?

[Exciteonium]

Great video as usual, do you think the chip could be a simple timer to limit the run time to say 4 hours?

[pintokitkat]

If it worked by shorting the LDR, why didn't you test the LDR to see if it was always open circuit? If it had been and you replaced it with one that did create a voltage divider when the dark hit it, it might have fixed the thing in the way it was intended.

[Hellhound]

But the most important question is, does it even attrack mosquitoes? Living in a rural area with lots of mosquitoes, I tried many gadgets claiming to kill only mosquitoes… turned out the killed everything, except mosquitoes…. And I love having those other little creatures around…

[bojidarandrov]

Hello just wondering what microscope are you using and any good recommendations .
Nice videos man love it.

[elsaarmstrong-zpng]

I thought these fly traps had a grid array in them with 1-2Kvolt in micro amps to kill these insects? What is the high voltage in this one then? Interesting videos though! Fraser

[ibrahimkocaalioglu]

you could have placed an on off switch. instead of push pull button and controller. you had space.