[OT] Ambi Pur mechanism

[Simon]

At the discount shop here in the UK I bought an Ambi Pur "Light
Sensor". This is a dispenser for air fragrance with a light operated
switch so it operates only in daylight.

This is it: http://www.ibootsale.co.uk/shop/enlarge.php?i=i59554

The electrical part interests me.

Mine didn't come with a fragrance container to try, so does anyone know
if the brown-coloured collar inside the dispenser is simply an
electromagnet (which then presumably tugs open some part of the
fragrance container). It doesn't seem to have any moving parts.

What is the voltage of the two electrical leads which go to operate the
brown collar?

 

[Baron]

At the discount shop here in the UK I bought an Ambi Pur "Light
Sensor". This is a dispenser for air fragrance with a light operated
switch so it operates only in daylight.

This is it: http://www.ibootsale.co.uk/shop/enlarge.php?i=i59554

The electrical part interests me.

Mine didn't come with a fragrance container to try, so does anyone
know if the brown-coloured collar inside the dispenser is simply an
electromagnet (which then presumably tugs open some part of the
fragrance container). It doesn't seem to have any moving parts.

What is the voltage of the two electrical leads which go to operate
the brown collar?

That brown ring is a heating element ! I belive its a thermistor type
device that provides an air flow and evaporation mechanism.