The indoor insect zapper is the best way of clearing your immediate vicinity of insects, especially the flying ones like mosquitoes. The hand held bug killer vaporizes any insect from a mosquito to a gnat instantly on contact with a pleasingly loud, electrical ‘zap’!
However, this is not to say that the hand held insect killer cannot be used outside, 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 definitely do not use it while you are standing in water!
Models do vary a lot, but there are really only two kinds of indoor bug zapper: the battery operated bug zapper and the rechargeable electric bug killer. Both models are equally effective at zapping insects and employ the same principle.
The indoor insect zapper resembles a ‘junior’ tennis racquet, but with three layers of ’strings’, which are in fact wires. The central grid of wires becomes live at the push of a button, while the other two networks, one on either side, are harmless earths.
When a bug is trapped between the wires of the hand held insect zapper, it creates a short, which vaporizes it instantaneously with a loud crack. The indoor bug killer will zap other insects too, but they just burn rather than explode.
I have had the rechargeable sort for more than 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 indoor bug killer is powerful enough to last for a few hundred swipes and will hold it’s charge, when unused, for weeks without any noticeable discharge.
The battery recharge unit will take intensive use for the best part of a year, although its ability to hold a charge for several weeks gradually diminishes after six or seven months.
The most recent indoor insect zapper I’ve had has a main on/off switch, an LED that shines when it is live (the brightness of this light also indicates the battery’s strength) and an LED that comes on when it is plugged in for 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 electric insect zapper shows a marked increase in performance with only a couple of hours charging.
The latest model I’ve seen also comes with a powerful beam called a ‘headlamp’. I have found this very useful when out in the garden, but I’m not sure whether it’s meant to attract the flies in the dark so that you can zap them if you’re bored. You know, like an anglerfish.
I’ve used the headlamp on my electric bug killer for that too, but the light uses a lot of battery power. All in all, the hand held bug zapper is a big asset to any outdoor event. The hand held insect killer 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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