Bug Zapper
While you have fun outdoors, many insects get to enjoy a good meal. Either they’re eating your food or they’re eating you. To clear your yard of these insects, you can try a variety of devices, ranging from simple Citronella candles to elaborate traps to pesticides to electronic bug zappers. A bug zapper, more formally known as an electronic insect-control system or electrical-discharge insect-control system, lures bugs, mosquitos, flies and other flying into it and kills them with electricity.
1) Use a light bulb that produces ultraviolet light. These light bulbs typically use mercury or neon vapor to produce ultraviolet light that attracts insects. Insects frequently see ultraviolet light better than visible light because many flowering plants use ultraviolet coloration. However, some insects such as mosquitoes are more attracted to heat and carbon dioxide.
2) Make the transformer to provide the electricity for the bug zapper. This device increases the voltage that comes out of your electrical outlet from 120 volts to at least 2,000 volts. This voltage increase is needed to kill the insects.
3) Construct the wire mesh grids around the light. Each of the two terminals of the electrical circuit is connected to a wire mesh. The meshes are separated by a couple of millimeters, so when the insect attempts fly through them to get to the light, its body completes the circuit.
4) Hold the parts together with an exterior casing. The housing is typically made plastic and metal that’s electrically grounded. The housing may be shaped like a lantern or any other desired form. Commercial bug zappers typically have an exterior grid to prevent anyone from touching the electrified grids inside.
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