Mosquito Trap

prusaprinters

<p>It's a first trial of mosquito trap.</p><p>The aim is to attract the mosquitos with CO2 and UV light and then breath in them with a fan.</p><p>the CO2 is generate with a mix of baker's yeast and sugar.</p><p>I used a “bubble viewer” to “check” the “CO2 generator”: <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B09CQCWKR5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1">https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B09CQCWKR5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1</a></p><p>UV leds:</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B08FQVY47J/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1">https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B08FQVY47J/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1</a></p><p>noctua fan:</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B07C5VG64V/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1">https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B07C5VG64V/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1</a></p><p>as the lights are in 5V and the fan in 12V, I use also a small DCDC converter to get 5V.</p><p>I use an arduino nano to read a potentiometer to ajust the speed of the fan with PWM. (see attached arduino program)</p><p>Unfortunately the fan is noisy due to the vaccum duct( although I used a noctuafan), and we have not enough mosquito now to test it.</p><p>I have tested 2 forms of vaccum duct, the bigger one is more efficient, but make much more noise.</p><p>Please test it and improve it! I am sure we can get them all!!</p>