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Hello,
I'm in the process of designing a mosquito zapper. I tried to gather as much details as I can about their theory of operation and popular circuits. I have also a bunch of them here and I have already opened some to take a look at their inner workings. Well, as an embedded designer, I do not get involved a lot in analog circuitry. However, I believe mixing the two distinct domains one can come up with a much better and improved design over what's offered out there.
From what I noticed so far, some of the cheaper designs had their circuits built around HV caps, diodes, etc. No transformers or ballasts used. A bigger device has more powerful circuitry, transformer-based design, and a ballast for the CFL.
Now the question is; what are the best practices available today to design such a device? What is the advantage of the transformer-based design over the other one? Is there any way to achieve same results (output power for the arc) without the transformer? How about miniature transformers?
If you can share some circuits, it would help a lot!
Thank you!
I'm in the process of designing a mosquito zapper. I tried to gather as much details as I can about their theory of operation and popular circuits. I have also a bunch of them here and I have already opened some to take a look at their inner workings. Well, as an embedded designer, I do not get involved a lot in analog circuitry. However, I believe mixing the two distinct domains one can come up with a much better and improved design over what's offered out there.
From what I noticed so far, some of the cheaper designs had their circuits built around HV caps, diodes, etc. No transformers or ballasts used. A bigger device has more powerful circuitry, transformer-based design, and a ballast for the CFL.
Now the question is; what are the best practices available today to design such a device? What is the advantage of the transformer-based design over the other one? Is there any way to achieve same results (output power for the arc) without the transformer? How about miniature transformers?
If you can share some circuits, it would help a lot!
Thank you!