Inside a Poundland electric fly swatter.
Added 2019-08-28 03:59:59 +0000 UTCI'm sure I've looked at one of these before, but it's worth checking if the design has changed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvXZM6kg_gI
This is one of three gloved videos made at the work-accommodation. As I type this I'm back in Glasgow and my hands are a lot better.
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The band Clan An Drumma (Scottish tribal band) have posted a video of one of their guys Alan licking one of these whilst pressing the button, I'm sure he's not doing it right coz at no point in the video does he piss his pants!
The Tinkering Shed
2019-09-04 20:02:22 +0000 UTCThe SloMo guys have a video on their youtube channel showing flies' heads being blown off by one of these eSwatters
Gordo
2019-09-03 20:53:20 +0000 UTCOh, fly-back, tres drole ;-)
Gordo
2019-09-03 20:51:46 +0000 UTCYay lets all ask Clive how to make a potentially lethal device more powerful!!! So, I would like to see a quick follow-up. Could you use a voltage divider on the output to allow a measurement? Say 2M and 220K getting a 10:1 ratio, measure across the lower value? Also, a methodology and ball-park guess at the current/discharge duration. Explain why an RCD would/wouldn't let you get that amount of energy? I've got an art degree, but I'm trying to get up to speed with electronics... This is a great channel. Like season 1 of Myth Busters, the thought process is the best bit.
MattBookAir
2019-08-29 08:00:11 +0000 UTCSo quick upgrade would be to go to a higher value output resistor first, then upgrade the capacitor?
N H
2019-08-29 01:35:57 +0000 UTCThese don't have quite have enough 'oomph' to kill yellow jacket wasps, just stuns them momentarily.
N H
2019-08-29 01:22:59 +0000 UTCI had one of those too! (I accidentally “modified” it to death🤦♂️) Selling this type of electric flyswatter in the US, would practically be asking for a lawsuit.. 🙄 It wouldn’t be enough to plaster “electric shock/burn hazard” warnings on the packaging, manual, and the swatter itself. There will ALWAYS be an American “helicopter” parent (we call them curling parents in Denmark) screaming their lungs out, because their 14 year old “poor baby” didn’t heed the warning. 😆
Bo Holbo Rasmussen
2019-08-28 12:11:21 +0000 UTCThink I need one of these for all the pesky wasps August has brought! Surprised at the lack of beefy capacitors, was expecting similar arrangement to disposable flash cameras, to this day the most painful shock I have ever had was from one of those cameras and I've tasted mains on several occasions.
The Tinkering Shed
2019-08-28 06:53:50 +0000 UTCLove it! Hope you get back home soon.
Lostngone
2019-08-28 06:14:17 +0000 UTC
