Bug Zappers

[Kev]

Yeh I found this out not long ago went to fix one and there was just one shit circuit board inside that ran the tubes and delivered the HV the HF side for the tubes was dead.
The customer then got another the same and it munched the tubes within a matter of 2 weeks put some more tubes in and 2 weeks later also dead

[Beta 5]

It is disappointing really, the electronic one also has a much less powerful zap than the proper magnetic ones too. No doubt a bid to push people into using LED versions...
Could probably convert the housing to magnetic but finding a zapping transformer would probably be the hard bit.

Not really great for them to be munching through tubes either given the price of some of the BL368 tubes! I swapped the Philips tubes my electronic one came with for some cheapo ones for that reason too.

[Ash]

Dont the LED versions have the same weak zap ?

[Nick217]

More a zip now than a zap

[Ash]

Zip as in the sound of dripping burning plastic ?

[Beta 5]

Not sure if they are that bad yet, but they certainly don't seem to have anywhere near as much power as the transformer based one, in fact I'd say the one I got is even less violent than one of those battery powered tennis racket fly swatters!

I saw a modern LED tube one in a fish 7 chip show the other day, it looked absolutely awful, horrible cheap thin looking housing and LED "tubes" that didn't even look like they were UV and gave out hardly any light, more like just dim blue tubes!
Meanwhile I did see another place that still had one of these P+L Exocutors installed in the 2x15W version which looked a lot better and brighter!