Inside a LIDL insect zapper - with schematic

Not completely what I was expecting. I thought there might be a traditional electronic ballast for the tube, and while there is, it is somewhat simpler than I thought it would be. The zappy bit lacks the zest normally found in the eBay versions, and the manual is basically just warnings not to open the unit or let children play with it, so they may have tamed it down for that reason.

Interesting ballast though, and while the zapper section took longer than expected to reverse engineer, it is fairly conventional.



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