Chinese Insect Zapper (Mosquito Killer) - crazy circuit and burning resistors.
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This is a teardown of a Chinese insect zapper (or mosquito killer). It has a completely mad circuit that makes no sense - probably a totally botched up conversion from a fluorescent tube to a UV LED). After a few seconds, two resistors started to burn inside. It also has no discharge resistors, so the grid and the plug can give you a shock after it's unplugged. The picture in the listing says it also kills rats, although I really can't imagine how the rodents could get through the grid into the machine (which, at the top of it, is meant to hang from a ceiling). Warning - dangerous voltages. There's a high voltage in the grid with no mains isolation. Capacitors do stay charged after turned off / unplugged.
UPDATE: I've got a full refund for this rubbish.
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cant stop laughing when I saw the sketch for the mouse. 😂😂😂
@ACOnetwork
2 жыл бұрын
Similar here 🤣🤣😂😂. Drawing was perfect 😁
@BICIeCOMPUTERconGabriele
Жыл бұрын
me too!!!!
@JonathanGameHD
Жыл бұрын
Hello, Little reminder for you to come check this mouse 😁
It is not insect killer, it killed itself before killing anything else.
@KasparOnTube
5 жыл бұрын
maybe its vegan
@oniruddhoalam2039
5 жыл бұрын
It is a suicider.
@redpheonix1000
4 жыл бұрын
It's an insect killer killer
Chinese mouse fly.
@pokemon3742
6 жыл бұрын
LOL
@theshankman8682
6 жыл бұрын
from the amount of chemicals they produce the eventually will
@yourcreed104
6 жыл бұрын
Władca Niczego They eventually will fly due to chemicals ?....can these devices produce spells that transforms mouses to fly and than later kill them ?
@bob-ii8oe
5 жыл бұрын
it only kills communist flys
@BillAnt
5 жыл бұрын
@@bob-ii8oe < Kill a commie for mommy! ;)
It kills mice by burning your house down! :-D
@livelove2030
5 жыл бұрын
KilroyNBC year you cook and eat.
@brandonspicer2482
4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅 Good one bro.
@zakiahmad4024
4 жыл бұрын
😂
@hexagonist23
3 жыл бұрын
It also kills you and everyone in your house, and possibly, everyone in your neighbourhood!
@davesbusstuffandmore
3 жыл бұрын
LOL 😅
The review was conducted in a hilarious manner. I was laughing away at it was funny. Yes, the Chinese from China have very poor Command of English, so there's a lot of information that get lost in translation. At times, I do not understand what the product description and instruction is trying to put across. This reviewer made my day. The picture illustration was funny with the mouse part.
I like the way of showing problems. They will always criticize you. This is an invaluable help because you yourself will not notice the mistakes you make. Do not be angry with critics. Correct what you can. You have a big talent.
It's a greater risk to the user than a mosquito. Great video, keep em coming.
That was a funiest reverse engenering ive seen. Thanks a lot. Rotfl!!! You make very interesting electronic videos! Keep going. God bless your family
Man...you are too good.. I just kept on laughing watching how you are calculating staffs... I subscribed only for the way u presented the things and did the calculation and made the video in another level. Keep on...
Love a product tear review/teardown that goes into the actual operation. The mouse diagram was a laugh bonus.
I hope you got a refund for these.
@DiodeGoneWild
7 жыл бұрын
Yes I've got :)
I recently repaired one of my mosquito lamps and it had a very similar circuit. It had a real UV fluorescent tube though, not an LED. It seems like just what you said - they had a lamp designed for a tube and they put a low voltage LED 'tube' instead of the real high voltage tube. The LED tube is probably meant to run off a 12V AC transformer like used for low voltage halogen fixtures.
@maverickalvaro3706
Жыл бұрын
That 1.5 v ~ 3 vdc uv led
0:35 I ask every viewer to pause and read. It's hilarious! "No smelly cleanliness and HEATH!" 😂
@andymouse
4 жыл бұрын
I did..your right !
@Purple431
3 жыл бұрын
Also says: "make use of special lisht frow special light tube to lure the Insent, sueh as mosuito" :'D
You are the best! Thanks for your explanations.
i just cant get the image of a mouse/rat flying through the sky to get to the zapper, is it possible they ment a bat LOL :-D :-D. Nice drawing he he :-D. And still they never use anyone that slightly understands english to write the box discription. How can they be so utterly bad in this day and age?
Hej man your videos are the best!
Flying mouse omg... You made me laugh, thanks :DDD love the painting
Haha.. I cant stop laugh.. you are funny.. Rat Can Fly..??
@mrmoon7484
6 жыл бұрын
indeed he is very funny
@atiqit7318
6 жыл бұрын
Sabahan KZreadr me too brother
One way: The mice eat the live wires and get grilled. The other way: The mice eat the live wires and get poisoned to death by cheap chinese plastic even faster than the mains voltage would kill them.
I can't even believe my eyes!
@packingten
4 жыл бұрын
Thats "Be reive"
I think the smaller caps give about 1.5kV in total. When it gets loaded, small caps are discharged and 390nF caps are effectively in series ie. only 600V or so for the larger current zap from the large caps. That may have to do with not overloading the circuit with large current pulse like you'd get if all caps were large.
"The corners of the box are slightly compressed." - the most polite accusation of a delivery company.
Thanks fella for showing the deadly garbage sold on the internet 👍
I have one of these which is physically identical but with different construction. If I recall correctly the light is in series with a dropper capacitor across the power input and the grid is a single stage multiplier. And this is for 120v. I might need to check it again because I don't think 340v is enough to zap insects.
I thought I got it cheap on eBay because they had an error in their production and many units were made with a 1/4 Watt resistor when really it should have been at least a 2 Watt. But as you are saying, it was probably meant for a florescent tube! I wanted to map out my schematic but didn't so far. Interesting that it works fine now when I replace the resistor with a 5 Watt. However it's still a mediocre unit because I also found out that the "kill power" of this thing is very low. While you do get a nice big spark if you short the grid, it hardly kills bugs that land on it. It's most effective in killing what looks like little moths, they are attracted to the light and just stick to the grid and don't burn up in any way. But I tried to kill some fruit flies, and had to trick them by putting the unit on top of a little container with fruit peels. So I found two on the grid. One of them was dead, and the other was alive basically jumping between the two wires, like saying hahaha, it can't kill me. So I took a matchstick and moved the fly so its body, not just wing, made contact with the two wires and then it started burning it with smoke emanating and it STUNK! I understand that the more "legit" bug zappers are strong enough to pretty much blow the bug apart as it hits the grid, and the bug gets partially burned and falls right off the grid to the bottom. Somehow this unit's HV circuit produces a few thousand volts but very little current, so it's not enough to really travel effectively through the bugs that end up on it. Either way I understand that in order to attract mosquitoes you need a source of carbon dioxide, and some movement. They are not attracted to UV light...
If you just unsolder these two diodes and simply short circuit the 2 burned resistors, the ultraviolet LED may work. Then you can start zapping a few flying rats.
"Can use for long-term without break" Suuuure.
Dude I love you so much.
I've never heared funnier english accent
@simontay4851
6 жыл бұрын
His accent sounds like a cross between welsh, French, polish, Iranian.
@Volvex007
6 жыл бұрын
He's from Czech Republic
@userPrehistoricman
6 жыл бұрын
the* Czech Republic
@Capt_Killingfield
6 жыл бұрын
I've never heard a "funny" English accent. What's funny is people that only speak one language that laugh at someone who probably speaks four.
@Fareke2
6 жыл бұрын
Kam1kadze Official but he was scammed :D
Very nice vid.
I like how you explained the circuitry, I understood them and made me intrested even though I know nothing about electronics.
Interesting video, thank you
These zappers are a fire hazard. The resistors burn within 1 hour. It is a voltage amplifier circuit that barely works. The LED circuit is being fed about 40 volts off the R2 resistor and that is why it gets so hot. I initially replaced the R2 resistors with 10 watt resistors and they still get super hot. I bought 2 of these and both burned R2 resistor almost immediately. I replaced the LED circuit with a 120v to 3.5 volt buck converter from ebay and the led's work great now. The grid side has never failed.
@jeeplvr2000
7 жыл бұрын
The voltage to the led is supplied by a 7.5k ohm resistor (R2) off the main board. The 5k resistor is for the grid only.
@jeeplvr2000
7 жыл бұрын
The burnt resistor R2 is the resistor for the LED power supply. And you burned the two LED resistors when you plugged it into the mains with a light socket which bypassed the resistor R2 on the main board.
@jeeplvr2000
7 жыл бұрын
You will never achieve the 600 volts with the components on the board because of the voltage drop. The most I got out of the main board was 460 volts which is only slightly over the rating of the caps. The reason they did this is to save money. It's the same reason there are two different values for the capacitors. The lower value capacitors are just adequate at the position they are in and are cheaper than the higher value caps.
@DiodeGoneWild
7 жыл бұрын
There should have been a proper capacitive dropper for the LED. Not a resistor as the only thing that drops the voltage. Seems like the circuit originally was a doubler for CCFL. With a proper capacitive dropper for LED, well rated capacitors in the multiplier and with a fuse, it would be a good device.
Miluju ty hodiny v pozadí :D/ I love clocks in background :D
By looking at the circuit before the 'Tube', I can't quite work out how that would power the tube without blowing. Apart from the burned resister (which I assume is an inrush current limiter), there's nothing limiting the current flowing through the two diodes for half the AC cycle through the tube. Even the 220nf capacity doesn't make sense. I reckon if this 220nf capacitor was inline like the top-left 47nf capacitor, the current would be limited enough to drive the UV 'Tube'. But if that was a real tube, the DC current would result in a very short life, like some battery operated fluorescent lights that ran the tube on DC.
@DiodeGoneWild
7 жыл бұрын
I think it originally worked with some UV CCFL tube. It's voltage drop was higher than the mains peak voltage, so it didn't blow up. It worked as a current limited multiplier. As long as the tube's voltage drop was less than 1x mains peak, it limited the current thanks to the 220nF capacitor reactance. And yes, it is DC current that shortens the life of tubes, but chinese never care about this.
@theirisheditor
7 жыл бұрын
I didn't realise how high the voltage drop is on CCFL's. Indeed the reliability of the non LED version is poor, I found it on Amazon UK and about half the reviews mention that it failed within days of purchase. I love your diagram of the mouse 🐭 I'd also like to see a mouse trap that catches mosquitoes... 😊
@DiodeGoneWild
7 жыл бұрын
A proper UV fluorescent tube can last about 5000 - 10 000 hours with a proper magnetic ballast (AC) or a high frequency electronic ballast. LED's could do even better, but they have to have a proper power supply and they shouldn't run at 4x their maximum current (as Chinese designs usually do). The light output also has to be enough to replace the fluorescent tube (one 5mm LED is not enough). And the wavelenght has to be suitable - 365nm or even better 350nm. The cheap 395 or 405nm LED's suck in those zappers. I still stick to my old fluorescent zapper with a heavy iron ballast.
@jeeplvr2000
7 жыл бұрын
The R2 resistor that burns on the main board supplies about 40 volts to the LED board, which then reduces it down even further and rectifies it so the LED doesn't burn out. The R2 resistor is a 1/4 or 1/2 watt resistor and needs to be at least a 10 watt resistor. Like he said in the video, there are two completely separate circuits.
@squish200
6 жыл бұрын
if u can make it china will fake it
Is there any rated voltage mentioned on the box? They put an adapter to box bot i dont think they thought about voltage values.
Mouse are you kidding me?! Lmao at his reactions
Well, Mr you won the Nobel prize in physics
1:29 sírijúsly
Love the mouse drawing, Brilliant ! 110 Volt plug put on 220/240V supply with the Chinesium adaptor. You Popped it. Great reverse engineering. Piece of dangerous plastic rubbish.
@puckcat22679
4 жыл бұрын
Actually, that's a Chinese ungrounded plug, not a US one. They're similar, and will physically interchange, but not identical, and the Chinese plug doesn't comply with US code. China uses 240v. The quickest way to distinguish the two is that the Chinese plug lacks the holes in the blades. Also, most of them have a much smaller grip, too small to comply with our electrical code.
I also guess the circuit was designed to use custom fluorescent tube, not LED.
Czenglish ! :D ok bratu , subscribed :D
I like the way you speek..,
OMG the bug zapper died just out of the BOX! Priceless! hahaha
Love engrish on packaging
the burned resistor is 5.1k.
@TekWhizz
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, and that was the only one that burned at 120V. I replaced it with a 5W ceramic resistor and it works perfectly, just a bit warm.
@TechHowden
3 жыл бұрын
@@TekWhizz I just realize this is one of my first ever comments
I am slightly puzzled... How do you even turn the thing on when it is suspended from the ceiling?... Are you supposed to climb on a chair each time you want it on or off, since the switch is located on the top?... Nice touch! How clever! BTW, I think it shows everything it CANNOT kill on the package. You'll notice human beings are not represented... mmh. ;)
Can someone advice what is the part number for the light tube used in this bug zapper ? thanks
If we neglect the 220nF capacitor and the two diodes in the lamp circuitry, the burned Non-47Ω resistor would have dissipated around 15 Watts. The value could be something like 3.3kΩ.
My first instinct when it failed was "designed for 120V or less"... which may be true, but I don't see how it would work properly at lower voltages either.
@DiodeGoneWild
7 жыл бұрын
Maybe, but those resistors would burn even at 110V~. The capacitors are rated for 400V, this is usual for 220V~ products. In 110V~ products there are usualy 250V capacitors. The desing seems to be originally for some fluorescent tube or CCFL, that had a higher operating or ignition voltage. The LED tube was put into it without even testing it. Or they tested it for like 1s, so that the resistor didn't have time to overheat.
@akaishi1583
7 жыл бұрын
markiangooley It might be 230v, the Chinese use the N American plug for that voltage.
@jeeplvr2000
7 жыл бұрын
The circuit is made exactly the same for 110 or 220, they just change the plug. It is a fire hazard at best. The values on the components in this video are exactly the same as the zappers I bought here in the states for 110 volts.
The capacitors actually only charge to the peak of mains voltage each. 400 volt capacitors will allow operation up to 283 volts AC safely. The capacitors closer to the mains handle more current, therefore, need to be larger values. All in all, the series capacitance needs to be appropriate for the desired discharge energy. It's nicely designed. The 5.1K resistor is too low a value. In a fault condition, like the grid wires shorting, or a bug bridging the grid wires, that resistor could dissipate as much as 11.3 watts!! it won't take much to smoke that! one can only hope that the capacitor values are low enough, to reduce the dissipation of that resistor in a fault condition. It almost looks like the voltage multiplier was designed for 240 V AC, and the light was designed for 120 V AC. Anyway, it looks like a passable design, but with the wrong resistor values.
The mouse dies because of the ozone made by the UV lamp.
You are really smart
After this video the product even gained new features: Child Killer, Fog machine and House burner.
that mouse part killed me !! lol , I am laughing like stupid at 2:50am in the morning lol!!! hahahha thumbs up for that!
0:34 2. "Lure the insent"
4. Can use for long-term without break
On the picture its on and looks better :D u think they can hold it on power for photo ?
Lmao at the box instructions full of typos and lmao at the accent haha
From where did we get the tubes
Did it state the voltage on the package, instructions or sale listing? I think that Chinese plug is actually North American! Same plug but 100V difference! Instead of that plug adapter, they should have sent a plug converter! I bet the math works better at 120V!
can this be charge with cellphone charger? is there portal?
thank you for testing these products from countries with low safety standards.
Looks like that bug zapper the changed to an LED lamp from a flourescent lamp last minute without testing it perhaps
Its not made for 240 volt i think
@thgrofficial
6 жыл бұрын
If it's not made for 240V then why did they include a European adapter in the package?
@Okkie26
6 жыл бұрын
If it was made for 240 volt, why wasn't there a european plug in the first place?
@puckcat22679
4 жыл бұрын
Oscar Hartman it has a Chinese plug. And China uses 240v as well. No, it's not a US plug. China uses a plug design for ungrounded equipment that is very similar to the US 2- prong plug, but not exactly the same. Note the absence of the holes in the blades. Also, the part you grip tends to be smaller than what is legally allowed in the US. They will fit a US outlet, but they're not compliant.
@joecuevas6368
3 жыл бұрын
yeap math makes more sense with 120V...
u sure this was meant to run on 220 and not 120? that may bring some of these components back into specs.
@DiodeGoneWild - They might retrofitted this thing from tube (voltage doubler) to LED the extra chep way (even for Chinese junk) , because they might had much of this boards catching dust ^^
Mosquito Killer gone wild and killed itself.
Lol, the "kill" and "zap" part in the Ad was referring to the resistors. By the way, the 1500v will still be too low for most insects at that electrodes separation of the grid. The one I have uses 3600v (from a switching inverter) and that one works just fine. Unfortunately, does not kill mice either... Oh, and you are right about the doubler going to the light bulb. Originally, those units had a fluorescent UV-A bulb with a screw base just like that, but I guess that other Chinese seller scammed this Chinese seller into buying LED lamps that work "exactly" the same as replacements, lol
Best channel this or big Clive
You know, I never thought about putting a bug zapper in my home. Might be useful during those times of years flying insects like to try to invade my castle. Seems to happen every spring. Been using fly paper, but a zapper might be more fun.
@guavamax420
Жыл бұрын
and rats LOL
ty vole, to je strašný... O_o
@oliverlipka799
6 жыл бұрын
ten prízvuk ? :D
@silnicnivozraloteka5639
6 жыл бұрын
zní jak čech :D
@silnicnivozraloteka5639
6 жыл бұрын
fajf handrt watts :D
U should keep a MCB or ELCB besides u to protect.
FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIAH
excellent video from a technical perspective. plus your accent is awesome, you could be a great singer... i wonder what your mother tongue would be...
@mmb-memyrapzandbeatz6603
2 жыл бұрын
Lol. You are wicked
can it kill a humanized mouse ??
Oh my god thank you 😂😂😂😂 I was having a terrible day and now I can't stop laughing and the mouse schematic OMG
3:37 they made it for the mice. 😂😂🤣
that desing of the mouse flying ... man i just pissed my self from laughing.... good one :)
Haha, is it gonna crawl on the ceiling?
I like that that blub...😂😂😂
I like how the latest one is better and worse at the same time
If the 2 diodes before the light were cathode to cathode or were anode to anode you would get a significant voltage and current drop. So much of a drop it wouldn't matter if it was used in a 230v or 120v source. I can't tell by the video if the drawing and or silkscreen on the board was wrong, or if a diode was just put in backwards. This unit has none of the safety features required to be UL Approved and is probably available in the USA via the internet only. As with any product bought direct from the country of origin, buyer beware.
Is it rated for 120 volts only maybe... Ain't it 240 volts where you're from?
But did it die?
It kills the mouse by burning down the house!!!!!!!
I subscribed so i'm updated to some electronic comedy show haha
Cool video as always. However, the best one so far is...Even more salt... Even more salt 😂
High voltage power network intensive can escape in a small mosquito. + kills flying rats and mouses super interesting
TOP quality product :D And i thik they have wireless option :D
Mine is same but a lot dif, 3 big capacitors 2 small 5 diodes 2 resistors the bulb glass runs on 243 volts dc the wires put off 436.6 volt dc
I think the schematic makes sense if only the polarity is respected, if not it is a gamble!
It simply combusted xD
Favorite words : cocorrocheeees,seareislieeee
They didnt lie about LED
Component crematorium. The components get zapped before any insect gets near it. Je je.
Maybe the guy in your electric chair drawing could hold the mouse kill two birds with one stone.
Also it's funny, it has the red switch in the photo, and in this video, the switch is there, but the one I got, the box and everything is the same and the red button is pictured, but is not on the unit! I got 2 of them at the same time, unfortunately.
So many strange circuit in chinese products. I had an emergency lamp that burned when it was charging. The resistor to red LED indicator was burned and the elco from bridge rectifier was blowed into pieces. The elco only 50v, and the resistor power clasification is only 1/4 watt with a mysterious value too. It's clearly a 800mA current is running on the circuit. The main light contains 40pcs smd LED 3.2v in a paralel. And because of two component were blowed, the rotary resistancy switch and the transistor are become broken. I analyzed that they use negative path to controlling the transistor. The other emergency lamp has a solar panel which using negative path through the switch. And amazingly the solar panel is directly connected to 3pcs paralel 3.7v li-on battery. The circuit board was burned included all component on it. I tested the solar panel's voltage output and it could reach 15volt under the light of lamp. Buahaha...
Seriouslaaaaay? Are you kiding miii?