The electric insect killer is the best way of clearing the area around you of insects, especially the flying ones such as mosquitoes. The electric bug zapper vaporizes any insect from a mosquito to a gnat instantly on contact with a nice, loud, electrical ‘crack’!
However, this does not mean to say that the hand held insect killer cannot be operated outside, as long as it is not raining. It should be treated like any other high voltage electrical equipment. Keep the electric insect killer dry and please do not use it while you are standing in water!
Models vary greatly, but there are basically only two types of indoor bug killer: the battery operated bug zapper and the rechargeable electric bug zapper. Both are equally effective at killing bugs and work on the same principle.
The indoor insect killer looks like a ‘junior’ tennis racket, but with three layers of ’strings’, which are in fact wires. The innermost grid of wires becomes electrified at the push of a button, while the other two networks, one on either side, are only earths.
When a bug is trapped between the wires of the electric bug zapper, it creates a short, which evaporates it instantaneously with a loud crack. The hand held insect zapper will kill other insects too, but they tend to fry rather than explode.
I have been using the rechargeable kind for about five years and am extremely happy with the indoor bug zapper. In fact, the electric bug zapper has come a long way over the last few years. A fully charged indoor insect zapper is powerful enough to last for several hundred swipes and will hold it’s charge, when unused, for weeks without any significant discharge.
The battery recharge unit will take intensive use for the best part of a year, although its ability to hold a charge for a few weeks gradually reduces after six or seven months.
The most recent indoor insect zapper I’ve used has a main on/off switch, an LED that comes on when it is live (the brightness of this light also gives an indication of the battery’s strength) and an LED that comes on when it is plugged in on recharge.
The instructions suggest that it should be (re)charged for sixteen hours. I usually put it on charge over night once or twice every week or two, although the hand held bug zapper shows a marked increase in performance with only a couple of hours charging.
The latest version I’ve used also comes with a powerful light called a ‘headlamp’. I have found this very handy when out in the garden, but I’m unsure whether it’s meant to lure the flies in the dark so that you can zap them if you’re feeling bored or just vindictive, rather like an Anglerfish.
I’ve used the headlamp on my indoor insect killer for that reason too, but the headlamp uses a lot of battery power. All in all, the electric bug killer is a huge asset at any outdoor event. The hand held bug zapper is useful for ‘clearing’ your bedroom before retiring; it’s unequalled for killing evening mosquitoes and it will eradicate wasps at a lunch table as well.
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