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Use a low powered tesla coil that zapps bugs but won't kill you. Make for great entertainment, too.
Fly electrocution
http://www.martleye...ric-fly-killers.htm
Not really that new but a bun for any new tesla ideas. [PainOCommonSense, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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Zapping bugs with electricity is an unyygenic way of doing it (they tend to explode, flinging germs everywhere) but this is just awesome. |
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By the way, DesertFox, I've been getting the impression your ideas are getting better. Keep up the good work! |
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Dayngeh! Dayngeh! Hi veaultidge! Wen
we tertch...wen we key-yuss! |
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//Alternatively you could just up the power enough to vaporize the bug/germs entirely.// |
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...and knock whole city electrical grids out? |
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I think the bug would have to land on
something in order to provide the
appropriate path to ground in order to
attract the fatal bolt |
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My misinterpretation of the title gave my an idea. I like the original idea. But I thought it was going to be a small EMP device that fried electronic listening devices in a room. |
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Personally, I'm with the vaporizing bit. I'd buy this for
sure. + |
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Is there a link? I don't see one. |
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[macrumpton], as long as the bug is more conductive that air (they are), they will attract an arc. |
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A high voltage spark allowed to travel through a bug due to it getting between two charged surfaces. Sounds excatly the same as a bug zapper to me.! :p Just a tesla coil (tuned transformer) rather than a HV flyback type generator (hey...not AS tuned, but tuned transformer!). |
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Also, I doubt their little hearts could handle any current required to get an arc across the air. And, tesla coils aren't exactly low current (comparitively). |
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I've always had fun with high voltage electrical fields and bugs. If you got something like a Van de Graff generator and put two plates. When they flew by one, they'd be attracted, then they'd get charged, then repel away from the plate to the other plate down below or to the side of, then back to the other plate. Boing boing boing boing. if they were metal, they'd even make "boing" sounds! You can watch this happen with any charged surface and small object. |
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Although, if the field is too strong they get stuck and little corona discharges start comming off their legs! :O That seems to kill them :( or at least make them crawl real slow after that. |
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