I live in rural Arkansas. When I moved here everyone on my street had those and a police scanner on the porch. They got a 30 pack of beer and enjoyed the action every night. I used to drink whiskey and watch the people doing this.

That's so funny. That's the same thing I got my dad to do to his bug zapper like 30 years ago. The next morning there was a huge pile of dead bugs and a bird underneath it.

I can see this becoming awesome and funny as shit, especially after a case of beer

Alot easier to clean when the bugs explode. No bodies laying inside. The bigger the pop, the less parts land in the bottom.

Flowtron is the old time zapper. It cooks

I'm actually super excited to see what you got planned for this please make it epic

These bug zappers are the reason we have so many mosquitoes as the zappers mostly kill beneficial insects many of which are predators of mosquitoes.

"I want something that's going to increase my electric bill" - Mike's Tool Shed

I'm working on a SEARS bugwacker, 1acre I think, rated that is 5500V 9MA. I was changing to use a screw in bulb socket and accidentally drilled into the primary coil winding. Not rewinding anytime soon.

The new bug zappers use a voltage Tripler with diode's and capacitors, but the old bug zappers used a good old iron core transformer that fed a steady current and voltage to sustain that sizzling arc that we all crave to hear.

Ive got three of them old bug bbq trapezoidal death lamps. They will make a grasshopper nice n crispy

Love it I could drink beer with this guy.

A giant moth frying on one of these things is KZfaq material. I have one of the vintage zappers it's a flowtron from the late 70s and works well. If I had a similar modern unit I'd cut out all the grating and let the bugs fly in and FRY.

Hook up a arc welder to it and turn up the amps.

This is the best shit I’ve watched all day. Thank you for my entertainment

In my house there a lots of gecko, bird that protect with those grate. Its a good idea but it might be hazardous to human too if kid touch it ang got zap with 4Kv.

Bug zapper night. I love it. Its a new weekly event.

I just put up a bunch of bat houses.

Man I've got tons of those big ass files around here to

A higher voltage capacitor will still only charge to the output voltage of the charging circuit/transformer.... a higher capacity capacitor won't arc further, but it'll arc bigger.

smile . you can`t kill them all ! good vid.

A giant moth stuck in one? I can top that. My buddy had a possum fry in one. Not intentionally (so he says). I guess the thing tried climbing down it. But when it got zapped, one of its fingers got stuck in the wire mesh and kinda laid/hung across the rest of the unit until my pal wondered what was burning.

Excuse me, but it's called the MURDER CAGE

“The killing cage” 😂😂😂

little Tim Talor in all of us, "MORE POWER!!!!!!!😁

Yes, get them Bug Killer

My flowTron is about 14 inches tall, midsize I guess, within a week here in Pennsylvania, the light was almost blocked out because the dead mosquitoes were about half an inch thick.I have a small stream about 75 feet from my house running through my property. I had no idea there were that many’mosquitoes . I hang that light up down by the stream in March, I change the attractant in July with some fresh attractant, and I don’t bring it until the first frost in mid November. I don’t know what I like the sound of better, a sizzling steak, or a sizzling mosquito. Just in 2018 and new insect showed up here in Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh. I believe they’re called can’t see ems..Does anybody know of a bug zapper that would take care of them? They show up in May and they’re pretty much gone by the end of June. And they seem to only come out in the evening after 5 PM.

Perfect uber bug zapper incineration is the way lolololo

time for a MOT mod lol I was thinking maybe an old 80kv coil from a car

I had a raccoon problem and now I don’t...I’ll let you guys figure out the rest...

yeah boy the 80s i was a teenager / zappers was the bomb boy !!!! toast everything beetles moths everything big bugs was the loudest

Hello, My client saw your video 3 years ago and did your method and he got hurt a year ago.. and hes looking for compensation to the fullest and the legal amount must be paid in full Once the settlement has been finalized.. you will be hearing from my legal team in the mail.. thank you

where is the next video on this mod??

What state do u live in lot of big bugs or lots of small ones

Mine gave out and I can’t find parts for it 😢

Dude if u get it to do like old school one u need to let me know how to make one.

I was thinking the same thing, that small insects don't get zapped. A REAL mod would come up with a finer grid to close the gap.

If you want to test the voltage go get a electric fence tester from a farm store with voltage readout it has 6 or 7 neon lamps that each light up displaying the voltage

Save someone some real pain: Discharge capacitor before touching kill cage. Doesn’t matter if it’s been unplugged for some time. Great video: but maybe add warning text at start. I think you can add annotation from KZfaq without editing and reuploading. I connect my positive and negative prong on power cord with an insulated screwdriver to discharge, but not sure if this is theproper method or works universally.

You want something to increase your electric bill??? Hahaha

I would be surprised if it is not a step up transformer. Something like a furnace ignition coil? They're a lot of fun. Amaze your friends! But to measure the voltage in something like that you could feed it a lower input voltage, then measure that, and extrapolate the difference. Because transformers are linear. That's how I figure out unknown transformers. I also put a bulb in series to limit the current. If the bulb really lights up there's something wrong. I love a good visual indicator. But it might have some kind of a janky switch mode PSU in it? Lots of things do today. Then figuring out the output voltage may be more complicated. You need to check out flyback experiments. There's shitloads of nuts on KZfaq that do those. You could make that zapper zap even when no bugs are landing on it. Here's a spark playing music. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gdmTqMZ9tNzanY0.html

the normal is eleagle in my cuntry -.-

Bugs hit mine and they squrim a little then fly off

why didn't you use intro music as a Metallica song from kill em all

i've seen bugs that can eat that piece of junk and ask for seconds.....

You never done anything with it. Wtf?

Not much information

Dude please put the neon light transformer down , this can be very dangerous ! Gona increase my electric bill OMG . I bet with 15500v transformer you could blow the wings off a wasp with about a 3 inch plate spacing , but you might die trying 😢 people that work with that kind of stuff have special equipment and it gets certified cuz it can fail over time

A million times more unsafe for human and pets. This is why I go to KZfaq