FOUND A BETTER WAY TO DISASSEMBLE THIS UNIT! Attaching the top to the unit are Phillip screws barely visible when turning the unit upside down and looking along the cage to the top. These screws secure AND lock the top to the cage when the unit is initially assembled. Could not get to the screws with a screw driver along the side (must be a design to keep people from fixing these). Soooo I pulled out my soldering iron and used it to melt a column in the plastic cage to allow my screw driver access to the screws while making the column big enough to retrieve the screw when it came out as well as to put the unit back together! Worked like a charm. My unit was not charging the cages due to the wire connections being just clamped onto the cages and mine were loose. Understand from other videos newer units have the connections welded to the cages. Soooo I cleaned up my soldering iron, fluxed up the connections and soldered the connectors to the cages. Result has been a charged cage ready to zap. To test use a multi volt meter set at AC for your highest reading. With the unit on and bulb lite up, my meter showed 300 Volts with one probe on the outer cage and one on the inner. Had done this test before soldering the connections and found the connection(s) was intermittent. Steady voltage after i soldered the connections to the cages. BTW.. I did not find any fuse which some sites said i "might" find . Good luck all!
Reminds me of my neighbor that tried working on his 2017 jeep Rubicon and couldn't put it back together after months of sitting I had to go over and slide a coolant line on in 20 seconds that he just couldn't comprehend how to attach lmao. I'd slap your hand like a little kid reaching for the cookie jar. No no no. So alone with the 2 you removed there are 8 yes 8 more to remove that are up and down the plastic cage heman
Thanks for the video. I was considering attempting to repair mine which was 4 years old but it also had a loose metal screen inside. They must just rust out. So I removed the bulb and threw the zapper out. I guess I should only expect about 4 years out of one if it's outside all the time. Not bad for the amount of bugs it kills every night. I blow the dead bugs out with a leaf blower.
black flags bug zappers are HORRIBLE!! Seeing you tear this thing down felt so great! You know it's bad, when it's so quiet you won't be able to hear it unless you're standing right under it! PLEASE stay away from black flags! If it's black flags, then RUN, don't walk! RUN AWAY! Get stinger, or Flowtron! I prefer the Stinger BK510!
I almost bought this exact item recently. Until I noticed how cheap it was made! I went with the black and decker that's the same size and has a 100% better quality!
Piece of junk zapper get a flowtron. I've had one for 35 years and it died a year ago. Curious if I could buy one of these for the high voltage parts. I have the as seen on TV monster zapper that lights but doesn't zap good like my flowtron. I could take the high voltage generator out of the black flag zapper and put it into my monster zapper. Otherwise it's just a plug in fluorescent light that's shaped like a bug zapper.
I'm sure there are better types and models. This one worked great for a long time and killed probably thousands of bugs. In fact, now that I think about it, I feel sad for the thousands of bug orphans created by this mass bug-murder device.
There's no gas or smoke other than burning insects. Just remember, insects will be attracted to the light, so having it indoors might cause them to try to get inside the house if it can be seen through a window.
Now THAT'S what I was looking for, to see the spacing between electrodes. That looks easy enough to mod by reducing the diameter of the outside grid (cutting out a section), so that smaller bugs get zapped. Will probably need spacers to prevent short circuits.
Thank you for sharing. If it lasted 2 years till it got to this point, I might take a chance with it. With all the mosquitos, this was the only one I could find in my area and I would take a chance. Your dismantle shows that it might come loose if windy or drop so I will take precautions.