The U shaped bulb in my bug zapper is a blacklight bulb. I cant findreplacement bulbs locally. To mail order one will cost me around $34.I'm not willing to pay that much, particularly since the zapper onlyseems to kill moths and night bugs which are not a real problem anyhow.I hung it to hopefully kill flies. I'm not saying it's worthless, butit's not worth $34 for a bulb which will probably only last a year.However, I have not yet ripped the thing apart, but I'm assuming it'smade with some sort of transformer to create the high voltage in thescreening around the bulb. Then there's this florescent blacklight bulbwith associated ballast. If this is the case, why must the bulb be blacklight anyhow? Why cant Ijust wire a common lightbulb socket in the fixture and put a small CFLbulb inside the unit? After all, my white porch light brings in bugslike crazy. Why not use a plain CFL to attract the bugs?And, if there is some important reason that it must be blacklight,Walmart sells a blacklight CFL bulb for $7 or $8. That much I'll pay.My question is why they use blacklight bulbs when a plain white bulbdraws bugs?

UV seems to be the part of the light spectrum that flying insects are attracted to. If you have a Light Bulb Depot close to you, you may be able to get a replacement bulb there. ^_^

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Why are Bug Zapper bulbs blacklights?

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fred.flintstone 13 years ago

Correct. I watch where the flys tend to "sit". That's where I put it. Lately I noticed that using a small pail seems to attract them. I put the zapper over the pail and get more of them. I'm not sure why?

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fred.flintstone 13 years ago

I've been planning to do this. I need a 3 volt DC supply. Most of those transformer wall warts are 5, 6, 9, 12, or higher voltage. I have a whole box of them and none are 3v.

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Jim Elbrecht 13 years ago

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It would if those beetles were attracted to a black light-- I don't think they are.

Those lights attract more skeeters than they kill. Get one for all your neighbors.

Jim

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Atila Iskander 13 years ago

Try your local Goodwill store Many have a whole slew of smaller transformers Surely one of them would be a 3Vdc

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chaniarts 13 years ago

good idea. you can also get multi-tap transformers @ radio shack or similar places.

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kuwismovies 8 years ago

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