stun gun not working, should I change the battery?

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mattyzip77 wrote:First change your underwear, than change the battery but do it in this order or the battery will not work!! :D
i just wear them inside out then
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hey my friend has a stun gun hand held one that has two prongs and the current goes thru both barbs like lightening ANYWAYS my roommate was popping in off while he was away and it stopped working even with a new battery change 9 volt..any suggestions welcome please ..i have checked the batterys
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Tue Nov 17, 2015 7:51 am

Not something you can really diagnose online, have you taken it apart to see if the board looks fried?
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Tue Nov 17, 2015 8:23 am

Probably the transistor. 'Dry firing' a gap that wide tends to burn them up.
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Tue Nov 17, 2015 12:44 pm

Or, another likely problem is that the internal gap is cooked. Hook a piece of wire to one of the electrodes and bring it near the other and try to fire it. If a spark jumps the smaller gap then the problem is probably the internal gap.

Most stun guns really are not designed to ever actually be fired.
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