[sci.electronics] bug killers

hobbit@topaz.rutgers.edu (*Hobbit*) (07/16/88)

Bug zappers use about 4KV AC transformers with an intergrid spacing of somewhat
less than 1cm.  Small bugs will form an arc path, get nailed, and fall out;
big ones tend to get caught in the grid for a while until they burn up [which
is why you occasionally get those *long* zappolas].  Try spitting into one
of them if you want to watch it work; you'll notice that the sound contains
plenty of its 60Hz drive..

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