Hand-held Mosquito Zapper

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The indoor insect zapper is the best way of ridding the area around you of insects, especially the flying ones like mosquitoes. The electric bug zapper 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 hand held bug 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 electric insect zapper 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 killer: the battery operated bug killer and the rechargeable electric bug killer. Both are equally effective at zapping bugs and employ the same principle.

The hand held insect zapper resembles a ‘kids’ tennis racquet, but with three sets of ‘strings’, which are in fact wires. The central network of wires becomes live at the push of a button, while the other two networks, one on either side, are only earths.

When an insect is caught between the wires of the hand held bug zapper, it creates a short, which vaporizes it instantaneously with a loud crack. The electric insect killer will zap other bugs too, but they just fry rather than just disappear.

I have been using the rechargeable kind for five years and am extremely satisfied with the hand held bug killer. In fact, the electric bug zapper has come a long way over the last few years. A fully charged electric insect zapper is strong enough to last for several hundred swipes and will hold it’s charge, if unused, for weeks without any appreciable 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 slowly reduces after six or seven months.

The latest indoor bug killer I’ve had has a main on/off switch, a light that shines 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 for recharge.

The instructions on the wrapper suggest 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 zapper shows a marked increase in performance after only a couple of hours recharging.

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 indoor insect zapper for that reason too, but the beam uses a lot of battery power. All in all, the electric bug zapper is a huge asset at any outdoor event. The hand held bug killer is useful for ‘clearing’ your bedroom before retiring; it’s unequalled for killing evening mosquitoes and it will eradicate wasps at a lunch table too.

Have you ever used an indoor bug zapper? If you haven’t, or if you want to get an electronic insect killer, please click one of the hyperlinks to our website or blog.

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