Yes Mat, that is a giant stainless salad bowl I got from my wife's kitchen. I will get some pictures from all angles so you can kind of see how it is made. The light is a standard kitchen light fixture from Home Depot that has two circular flourescent bulbs. The bowl has to be large enough for the light to fit inside. It's held in by the two carriage bolts and wing nuts you see at sticking out of the top. The motor and arbor on the motor shaft were purchased from Grainger as was the fan blade that you cannot see inside the galvanized shroud. I wanted a weatherproof motor so I used an enclosed unit that requires some cooling air flow around it, hence the fan shroud with a fan blade on the motor shaft. The fan shroud is 6 inch round heat duct attached to the motor mounting studs with a bracket. The thing that does the "slugging" is heavy weed trimmer line. I had to experiment with fan size and length of trimmer line that would work with this motor allowing it to stay cool but maximize the diameter of the spinning line to get as many bugs as possible. I think I have all the Grainger part numbers if anyone is interested who would like to duplicate these. When I get some more picturs I'll include more info. I have a swinging boom that fits over the pipe used for the legs of my dock. I can swing it in for maintenance. The only maintenance required so far is once a week to clean the trimmer line because it gets a buildup of bug guts on it. This unit has enough power to take down anything as big as a June bug yet will only injure most bugs so they still wiggle when in the water. I've found that mostly the small fish will feed at night under these. It's actually quite enjoyable to sit out at night and watch the bugs fly and the fish scoop them up. It will throw a pattern of bugs in about a 10 foot circle.
