This is a great idea but wonder if leaving the air conditioner unit switch in the ‘on’ position and turning the unit on/off via a relay connected to the 120vac line would work just as well.

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Besides the mosquito killer, which plugs into a wall socket, he used a real-time clock (or RTC module) to report the time, a relay shield for controlling the on/off state of the mosquito coil, the ...