Electric Bug Killer

By Owen Jones | August 13, 2009

The indoor insect zapper is the best way of ridding the space around you of insects, especially the flying ones such as mosquitoes. The electric insect zapper vaporizes any insect from a mosquito to a gnat instantaneously on contact with a pleasingly loud, electrical ‘zap’!

However, this is not to say that the hand held 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 the pool!

Models do vary greatly, but there are really only two kinds of hand held insect killer: the battery operated bug killer and the rechargeable electric bug killer. Both are equally effective at zapping insects and work on the same principle.

The hand held bug killer looks like a ‘junior’ tennis racquet, but with three sets of ’strings’, which are in fact wires. The central network of wires becomes electrified at the push of a button, while the other two grids, one on either side, are harmless earths.

When an insect is trapped between the wires of the electric insect killer, it creates a short, which vaporizes it instantaneously with a loud crack. The electric insect zapper will kill other insects too, but they tend to fry rather than explode.

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

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

The most recent indoor insect zapper I’ve used has a main on/off switch, a light that shines when it is live (the brightness of this light also indicates the battery’s strength) and a light that comes on when the zapper is on recharge.

The instructions say that the bug zapper should be (re)charged for about sixteen hours. However, I usually put it on charge over night once or twice every week or two, although the indoor bug zapper shows a marked increase in performance after only a few hours recharging.

The latest model I’ve seen also comes with a strong light called a ‘headlamp’. I have found this very useful when walking in the garden, but I’m not sure whether it’s meant to lure the mosquitoes in the dark so that you can kill them if you’re feeling bored or just vindictive. You know, a bit like an Anglerfish.

I’ve used the headlamp on my electric bug 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 indoor insect zapper 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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