Use a lighter and try to melt the strands of the metal in question. If it melts, it's aluminum wire coated with copper. Commonly found in Chinese El Cheapo wires. If it doesn't melt and is not magnetic, it's copper. ~ End of tip ~
Diode, I have a humble request for a video! Chinese sellers sell something called Battery Desulfator, from what I've understood it feeds high voltage pulses to lead acid batteries and somehow that makes it work again, isn't this dangerous? Can't this make a battery overheat and explode?
If it's a short pulse it won't have the time to overheat, but better to check anyway. I remember building a battery restore circuit along a tutorial out of an old film camera flash, but that was for NiMH batteries. Probably a good shock made it come alive again.
The idea is the high voltage breaks through the lead sulfate crystals that build up and cause the cell or battery to fail. Hence possibility restoring the cell or battery enough that it can be used again. However, I’ve not actually tried this myself.
I remember similar devices described in Polish electronics magazine (Elektronika dla Wszystkich). So this must have been legit, the head editor is smart, wouldn't sign it off otherwise :> Edit: search for AVT-733.
Man, those mosquito killer boxes are a very easy and useful project even for beginners to DIY using an old plastic container from anything, some cheap LEDs and an old fan, but in this product they just made it the worst possible way in terms of efficiency, don't even mention the fact that it may not even do it's job at all
Yeah, it would be a great idea for a mosquito killer, but always those Chinese non-brand companies make the worst thing possible. (Sorry for my bad English)
I'm pretty sceptical about the idea of using blue lights to attract mosquitoes altogether... some flying insects are phototropic but the biting mosquitoes are afaik attracted by CO2 breathed out by people and animals.
i mean look, not trying to be that guy but i have had one of those blue light "mosquito killer" with electric wires that shock them to death and it worked pretty well, obligatory to say it didn't just kill mosquitoes obviously. have had a lot of sleepfull nights cuz of it. Now that i think about it, it probably worked cuz it was (excusing the potential damage) hanging right on top of my head. probably my CO2 attracted them to stay there until it is time to strike, but alas, they got shocked to death.
@@necrobynerton7384 LOL. In normal situations you might get one or two that are attracted to the charmed remains of other insects but it's been pretty well known that they don't care about light. Unless it's sunlight and then they try to stay out of it. The crane fly looks like a mosquito and I'm pretty sure they'll fly to the light. Many people make that mistake.
@@jeffm2787 I mean, possible that too, I don't pay too much attention to insects. Though to be honest, I still would prefer the tried and true method of hunting them down with a fly swatter, gets you some exercise and fulfills your anger towards those little scratch infusers.
then it should be open close (not onoff), and placed the label on another place of the device, but thats right at the power cable, which more tells there shold be a switch.
One of your more amusing videos! Warning before opening the mosquito prison! :-) I am afraid the smaller ones could even escape throught the vent holes, they seem to big for me. Sometimes there are really small mosquitos but they also bite... I prefere the HV-killers - you even have accustic feedback of success!
This device senses money in peoples pockets. Actually it's seems to be doing quite well on it. In the end it's more a pitty that some cheating rubbish like that is being produced and transported to millions of customers world wide on cost of the environment. The impact on the environment is probably worse than the rest involved with it. Even when used with Green Energy. And it's recyling 'after it's lifecycle' will make up for the next pest.
12:22 Eaten alive and sucked the blood out of you. That's how I felt after a night in a hotel in Austria where I left the windows open on a summer's night.
That copper cable is way too strangely silvery looking. I'm just trying to think of a metal that fits and I just can't. Can't think like a scammer I guess. I wonder if we're stretching by assuming it's metal inside, hahah. That kind of voltage drop is notable!
Well, the only thing that I can use to describe this is "cheap and nasty". The only thing you can do with this is salvage the fan, for cooling something else, and salvage the "ultraviolet" LEDs, for another purpose.
If you don't want to wait for mosquitoes to die before opening, you can accelerate the process by igniting 70+% alcohol spray into the fan, should instantaneously roast most of them :)
Those leds seem like not capable of producing and Ultra Violet light with such a small current draw and the actual led die inside the led epoxy is much too small to be a Ultra violet emmitter.I have many different types of Ultra Violet leds and some are 5 watt versions and they are the 365nm type and they produce a very intense Ultra violet emmision which causes one of my large Synthetic Ruby Rods to luminese very bright deep red even fron seversl inches away.The leds in this thing seem to be the very cheap straw hat leds that emit violet light only and not ultrs violet and also I have seen probably several hundred different types of ultra violet leds and they all had much larger dies.
If you suspect there are mosquitos in the trap, get a can of flyspray and spray some above the fan so it suck it into the trap. This will kill of any critters.
copper clad aluminum, it is not fun to solder to, especially if you dont have actual lead based solder!, im shocked no one has mentioned this...but im less than a few minutes after the video is posted and too poor to be a patreon, you'll find more and more products use this to save money
this doesn't look like copper clad aluminium. Aluminium is very soft and it's not suitable for very thin wires or strands or for thin cables that could be exposed to some pull forces. Only thicker ones are CCA. Those seem like some weird steel copper alloy or copper clad steel. The strands are weild, some look like more coppery color, some are more silvery. Their color is simply not uniform.
@@DiodeGoneWild odd, im sure you already know the feel of copper covered al wire, most cheap power cords for nearly everything uses it and many include nylon in the weave for strength, i am having a really hard time googling wire besides copper and aluminum, i know if it was silver or gold it'd be super soft and easy to solder to but if it feels fake and flexible, im still guessing aluminum with some copper either electroplated or alloyed or something, i have some identical usb cables hanging from my ceiling...dont ask... i'll check mine out and see what it feels like in person if its the same thing
now it draws 0.22A, which might seem like a small difference, but for the LEDs it's about 80% extra current. The fan didn't get that much extra current, but it also got more voltage, also contributing to more power.
Cheers 🍻 to your “Fire Extinguisher 🍺” 😉🧯 Interesting device to try and suck in mosquitoes 🦟 but as you say it’s junk out of the box 📦 with its own cable!!! The fan should be strong enough to keep the mosquitoes 🦟 pinned down against the end of the airflow path and dehydrate them, in the bottom of the grill it sits on. The collection bin has 4 tiny plastic feet to lift the grill like 1-2mm up off the flat surface. I barely noticed the feet.
Against all the presumptions about Mosquitos, what they see and what they don't, these 'dodgy' looking devices, indeed work if used the right way. You keep them in a place where there's little air activity, and relatively darker than the rest of the room, primarily, the safest place for mosquitos to hide. Run it though the night and you'll know. These devices come in different arrangements, not all are effective though. The mosquitos die gradually as they dehydrate due to continuous air draft, they're not killed by the fan.
