Static grass applicator

[monica]

this is the link that shows you what to remove to make them work better ,

the bigs i dont know what they called silly me

http://www.ruleslawyer.bellguard.com/?p=8

[Richi72]

Hi Moni,

you can run them of a DC Adapter just take the + and - of the battery's and put on some electric wire + a DC Adapter to connect it all.

hope this helps.

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remove the battery's

cheers Richi

[monica]

hi Richi ,thank you, oh that's the way i was thinking and that would also add more zap as i do have AC adepter from a cordless drill so will work fine

did you have a read over the last link, dose that add more zap by removing these 2 thing ?

[Guest]

hi Richi ,thank you, oh that's the way i was thinking and that would also add more zap as i do have AC adepter from a cordless drill so will work fine did you have a read over the last link, dose that add more zap by removing these 2 thing ?

The voltage of a cordless drill is likely to be much greater than the 3 Volts of the two batteries. Might damage the electronics.

[Richi72]

Yep Steve is wright, I think if you stay in the 3 to 6 V range you should be fine. And I would sugiest before you remove that second thingie (capacitor) you could try it first.

Hope this helps

Cheers Richi

[monica]

hi Steve/Richi, and thank you for that steve, i did kind of think it may, we have so meany AC adepter, about from things so find a lower one

that what i mean Richi and yes good advice ,if it works as good as yours and steve no need to mess with it, and thats what these little things are

I will have a look about in the shopping center in the pond shops and see if they have if not get this one

thanks for the advice

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/2-AA-Batteries-Electronic-Mosquito-Swatter-Bug-Insect-Electric-Fly-Zapper-Killer-/261398319289?clk_rvr_id=615060862923

if only I had off know about this 3 wks ago my son when home to the philippines for the weekend and could off got me one for a whole $ 2.00 oh booo

[aaron]

I built one of these 4 weeks ago and it works well...ive caught a few shocks of it.

[monica]

hi Aaron , oh ouch i did hear they do give a bit off a boot,maybe run some plastic tube around the top edge ?

you know what i will do unthinking tap the side of the shaker,

[monica]

well Im very disappointed in the one i made sill thing , the grass still lays down as it sleeping, ops:

you can hear it humming and dose spark, if you touch the ground pin ,

but just dose not seen to have the right amount off power, as it runs on 2 x AA, batters, I re-looked at the u tubes, and did notice

that theres ran off 2x D batters ,but also had a transformer in them,which this one dose not, so I hooked up a 9v to it , the same thing ,sleeping grass ,

so all I got was sore feet ,a headache , and some what off a bad mood oh booo, think i will try the other way, and what a wast of $ 9.00 , or take out the (capacitor ?

[Richi72]

hi Moni,

sorry to hear that, but not everything is lost, so can you take some pictures of the way you use it and what the underground is like and the distance from the bucket to the space the grass goes on.

maybe we find the reason

Cheers Richi

[monica]

hi Richi, thank you , for stopping by,

do you think it could have some thing to do with the glue, as i used a clear watered down pva, not the white,

I did it like how it shows wire to clip, onto a nail, and the other too the hopper used the bear wires, and hold it about 3 or 4 inch above and shaked it,

but will take some pic,s off it and show as you said,ops:

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[Richi72]

Hi Moni,

not sure if its the glue, but it could also be your distance, 3 or 4 inch is about 9 to 12 cm I use mine at about 2 cm and cover areas of about 10 cm around the wire with the clip. You can check this by putting some grass without glue on a piece of old pe or copper plate or something like that, important is that there can flow a current true the material you have put the grass on. then put the wire clip on the material you used and turn it on and slowly go with the hopper to the material to see wen it starts to pull the static grass of it onto the hopper.

Hope you know what i mean. as soon as the static grass gets pulled to the hopper that's the distance you will need.

Cheers Richi

[monica]

hi Richi, thank you , I will try that , but I real cannot see how the glue should real matter but maybe it dose and the white has some think in it witch helps

I will give it a try again soon, and do that hold it only about 20 or 30 ml above you could be right im to high above and i keep hitting the pin,

as in the picture the blue thing is the transformer ? is that right so it has one ?

[tanktrack]

hi Monica my 1 seems to work ok I was told to flatten the base of the sieve and keep it close to the base no more than a cm or 2 and it works, and I am using the 2aa battery type . as long as it is pva glue it should work

[monica]

hi Steve, thank you, mmmmm maybe its the glue is from the pound shop so who knows, ,as i said to Richi will get some more pva, and give that a try and hold it closer, ops:

maybe that will work,