Electronic Bug Zapper

The hand held bug killer is the best way of ridding your immediate vicinity of insects, especially the flying ones like mosquitoes. The indoor bug zapper vaporizes any insect from a mosquito to a gnat instantly on contact with a pleasingly loud, electrical 'zap'!

However, this does not mean to say that the indoor bug zapper cannot be operated outdoors, as long as it is not raining. It should be treated like any other high voltage electrical equipment. Keep the indoor bug zapper dry and please do not use it while you are standing in the pool!

Models do vary a lot, but there are really only two types of indoor bug killer: the battery operated bug killer and the rechargeable electric insect killer. Both models are equally effective at killing insects and employ the same methods.

The electric 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 only earths.

When a bug is trapped between the wires of the indoor insect killer, it creates a short, which vaporizes it instantly with a loud crack and a flash. The electric insect zapper will zap other bugs too, but they tend to burn instead of explode.

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

The rechargeable battery unit will put up with intensive use for the best part of a year, although its ability to hold a charge for several weeks slowly reduces after six or seven months.

The most recent indoor bug killer I've had 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 it is plugged in for recharge.

The instructions say that it should be (re)charged for 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 with only a couple of hours charging.

The latest model I've had also comes with a strong beam called a 'headlamp'. I have found this very handy when walking in the garden, but I'm unsure whether it's meant to attract 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 zapper for that too, but the light uses a lot of battery power. All in all, the indoor insect killer is a big asset to any outdoor event. The hand held insect killer is useful to 'clean out' your bedroom before retiring; it's unequalled for evening mosquitoes and it will clear a lunch table of wasps as well.

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Hand Held Bug Zapper

If you aren't already familiar with the handheld insect killer, you are really going to love it and if you have used one before, I'm sure you'll welcome it back like an old pal! The hand held insect zapper does just what it says: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, very well.

Any insect that is touched by the wiring of the electronic insect killer is electrocuted. Smaller insects like midges and mosquitoes are vaporized with a very pleasing flash and a crack. Larger insect, like house flies and wasps are killed, but don't explode like the smaller ones.

How many times have these flying insects taken the edge off an otherwise lovely evening in the garden? Or how many times have you not been able to get a good night's sleep, because you know there's at least one mosquito in the bedroom. It has happened to me hundreds of times, I know! It is very satisfying to get one's own back with the electric insect killer.

I don't like killing things unnecessarily - I'm married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I'm sorry, they can die. And the hand held bug zapper does it without any more ado. No waiting and hoping they'll fly into the ultraviolet light and into the mesh. No, one sweep of the handheld bug zapper and the mosie's gone and you can hear whether you got her or not. (I say her, because the sucking mosquitoes always are females - I assure you, I wasn't being sexist).

There are two basic types of hand held insect killer. There's the battery operated bug zapper and the rechargeable electric bug zapper. Both work on the same principle, but I prefer the rechargeable kind, although I guess you could use rechargeable batteries too. (I bet they would be more expensive that the bug zapper in the first place). Anyway, I have been using a electronic bug zapper of the rechargeable kind for five years and I am ecstatic about them.

Nowadays, I spend a lot of time in Thailand with my wife, so you can bet your bottom dollar that I give my hand held bug killer a good work-out practically every evening. We usually eat in the garden in the evening and all socializing is done outside by tradition, especially in the rural areas, where we live. So it comes in very handy. I also use my electric bug zapper to 'sweep' the bedroom for bugs before we go to sleep at night. Just like a CIA agent.

The handheld bug killer just seems to improve every time I buy one, which makes it difficult to give you definite specifications. The electric bug zappers I had four or five years ago, often failed within six to nine months of purchase, although their ability to store a charge reduced a lot after four or five months.

However, the new handheld bug zapper will last 9-12 months and still be very pokey after nine months. My latest one even has a powerful torch called a headlamp incorporated into it. I'm not sure what it's supposed to be for, but if you feel that vengeance is sweet, you can attract mosquitoes with it and then kill them with your handheld insect killer.

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