Electric Bug Killer
The hand held bug zapper is the best way of clearing your immediate vicinity of insects, especially the flying ones such as mosquitoes. The indoor insect killer vaporizes any insect from a mosquito to a gnat instantly on contact with a pleasingly loud, electrical ‘zap’!
However, this does not mean to say that the hand held bug killer cannot be used outdoors, as long as it is not raining. It should be treated like any other high voltage electrical equipment. Keep the indoor insect killer dry and please do not use it while you are standing in the pool!
Models vary greatly, but there are basically only two types of electric bug killer: the battery operated bug zapper and the rechargeable electric bug zapper. Both are equally effective at zapping insects and employ the same principle.
The hand held bug killer resembles a ‘kids’ tennis racket, but with three sets of ‘strings’, which are in fact wires. The innermost network of wires becomes electrified at the touch of a button, while the other two grids, one on either side, are harmless earths.
When an insect is trapped between the wires of the indoor bug killer, it creates a short, which vaporizes it instantaneously with a loud crack. The indoor insect zapper will zap other insects too, but they tend to fry rather than just disappear.
I have been using the rechargeable kind for five years and am extremely satisfied with the hand held insect killer. In fact, the electric bug zapper has come a long way over the last few years. A fully charged electric bug killer is strong enough to last for several hundred swipes and will hold it’s charge, if unused, for weeks without any significant discharge.
The rechargeable battery unit will put up with intensive use for the best part of a year, although its ability to hold a charge for several weeks slowly diminishes after six or seven months.
The latest indoor insect killer I’ve had has a main on/off switch, a light that comes on when it is activated (the brightness of this light also gives an indication of the battery’s strength) and a light that comes on when the zapper is on recharge.
The instructions on the wrapper suggest that it should be (re)charged for about sixteen hours. I usually put mine on charge over night once or twice every week or two, although the electric bug killer shows a marked increase in performance with only a couple of hours recharging.
The latest version I’ve seen also comes with a powerful light called a ‘headlamp’. I have found this very useful when walking in the garden, but I’m not sure whether it’s meant to attract the mosquitoes in the dark so that you can zap them if you’re feeling bored or just vindictive. You know, a bit like an Anglerfish.
I’ve used the headlamp on my electric bug zapper for that too, but the beam uses a lot of battery power. All in all, the electric bug zapper is a big asset to any outdoor event. The hand held bug zapper is useful to ‘clean out’ your bedroom before retiring; it’s unbeatable for evening mosquitoes and it will clear a lunch table of wasps too.
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