This is not really a blog about repair, but rather the “Do It Yourself” method of keeping old Mosquito Magnets alive and catching Mosquitoes. By “yourself” I mean someone with a technical or engineering background. This does not contain the standard consumer oriented information, but rather information gained from sometimes hot and sweaty reverse engineering in the field, while constantly on guard for or attacked by uncaught mosquitoes.
By the way, we are spelling the plural of mosquito interchangeably as mosquitoes and mosquitos (which I prefer, but others do not). Reminds me of George Bush’s Sr’s VP and the “potato” incident.
Since 2016, I have been maintaining a wiki on the MM Defender and Liberty. This wiki has contained dated sections that should have been in a blog. But it would have been too much work for a hobby project.
In July, 2018, a new project has started emerged to replace the existing controller in the Defender and Liberty with an inexpensive wireless development board. This has resulted in lots of entries into the project wiki that should be blog entries. This blog is created to hold these entries as separate posts.
There may seem like a lot of moaning and groaning in this blog. Sorry, but that is just the way it is. I really cannot afford to spend the time I do on this project, it is a bit of an embarrassment, given that I could buy a new trap for $300 or so. But it irks me to throw these machines away. I need about 3 of them, even though each one is supposed to cover about an acre more or less. I hate those mosquitos.