The hand held insect zapper is the best way of clearing the area around you of insects, especially the flying ones like mosquitoes. The electric bug zapper evaporates any insect from a mosquito to a gnat instantly on contact with a nice, loud, electrical ‘zap’!
However, this is not to say that the electric bug zapper cannot be used outdoors, 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 definitely do not use it while you are standing in water!
Models do vary greatly, but there are basically only two types of hand held bug zapper: the battery operated bug killer and the rechargeable electric bug zapper. Both are equally effective at zapping bugs and employ the same principle.
The hand held insect zapper looks like a ‘junior’ tennis racquet, but with three sets of ’strings’, which are in fact wires. The central network of wires becomes live at the touch of a button while the other two grids, one on either side, are earths.
When a bug is trapped between the wires of the hand held bug killer, it creates a short, which evaporates it instantly with a loud crack and a flash. The indoor bug killer will kill other bugs too, but they tend to fry instead of just disappear.
I have been using the rechargeable type for about five years and am extremely satisfied with the electric insect zapper. In fact, the electric bug killer has come a long way in the last few years. A fully charged electric bug zapper is strong enough to last for several hundred swipes and will hold it’s charge, when unused, for weeks without any noticeable discharge.
The battery recharge pack will take intensive use for the best part of a year, although its ability to hold a charge for a few weeks gradually diminishes after six or seven months.
The latest indoor bug zapper I’ve used has a main on/off switch, an LED 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 it is plugged in on recharge.
The instructions on the wrapper say 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 insect killer shows a marked increase in performance after only a couple of hours recharging.
The latest version I’ve seen also comes with a strong light called a ‘headlamp’. I have found this very useful when out in the garden, but I’m not sure whether it’s supposed to lure 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 insect killer for that too, but the headlamp uses a lot of battery power. All in all, the hand held bug killer is a big asset to any outdoor event. The hand held insect 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 as well.
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