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Apr 07
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The electric insect killer is the best way of ridding your immediate vicinity of insects, especially the flying ones such as mosquitoes. The hand held insect killer vaporizes 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 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 bug 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 types of electric insect killer: the battery operated bug zapper and the rechargeable electric bug killer. Both models are equally effective at zapping bugs and work on the same principle.
The electric bug killer resembles a ‘kids’ tennis racket, but with three layers of ‘strings’, which are in fact wires. The central grid of wires becomes electrified at the touch of a button, while the other two grids, one on either side, are only earths.
When an insect is caught between the wires of the electric insect zapper, it creates a short, which vaporizes it instantaneously with a loud crack. The electric insect killer will kill other bugs too, but they just burn rather than just disappear.
I have been using the rechargeable kind for about five years and am extremely happy with the hand held insect killer. In fact, the electric insect killer has come a long way in the last few years. A fully charged electric bug zapper is strong 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 a few weeks gradually reduces after six or seven months.
The most recent indoor bug zapper I’ve used has a main on/off switch, a light that comes on when it is activated (the brightness of this light also indicates the battery’s strength) and an LED that comes on when the zapper is on recharge.
The instructions on the wrapper say that it should be (re)charged for about sixteen hours. I usually put it on charge over night once or twice every week or two, although the indoor insect killer shows a marked increase in performance after only a couple of hours recharging.
The latest model I’ve had 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 supposed to attract the flies in the dark so that you can kill them if you’re feeling bored or just vindictive, rather like an Anglerfish.
I’ve used the headlamp on my electric insect zapper for that too, but the headlamp uses a lot of battery power. All in all, the indoor bug killer is a big asset to any outdoor event. The hand held bug 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 as well.
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