Hand-held Mosquito Zapper
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The electric insect killer is the best way of ridding the space around you of insects, especially the flying ones like mosquitoes. The hand held bug killer vaporizes any insect from a mosquito to a gnat instantaneously on contact with a nice, loud, electrical 'crack'!
However, this is not to say that the indoor insect zapper cannot be used outside, so long as it is not too wet. It should be handled just like any other high voltage electrical equipment. Keep the hand held bug killer dry and please do not use it when you are standing in the pool!
Models vary greatly, but there are basically only two types of indoor insect zapper: the battery operated bug zapper and the rechargeable electric bug killer. Both are equally effective at zapping insects and employ the same principle.
The indoor insect zapper looks like a 'kids' tennis racquet, but with three sets of 'strings', which are in fact wires. The innermost grid of wires becomes live at the push of a button, while the other two grids, one on either side, are harmless earths.
When an insect is caught between the wires of the electric insect killer, it creates a short, which evaporates it instantly with a loud crack and a flash. The electric insect killer will kill other insects too, but they tend to fry instead of just disappear.
I have been using the rechargeable sort for more than five years and am extremely satisfied with the hand held insect zapper. In fact, the electric bug zapper has come a long way in the last few years. A fully charged hand held bug zapper is strong enough to last for several hundred swipes and will hold it's charge, when 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 a few weeks gradually reduces after six or seven months.
The latest indoor insect killer I've used has a main on/off switch, a light that comes on 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 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 large increase in performance with only a few hours recharging.
The latest model I've seen also comes with a powerful beam called a 'headlamp'. I have found this very useful when walking 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 hand held insect killer for that reason too, but the headlamp uses a lot of battery power. All in all, the hand held bug killer is a huge asset at any outdoor event. The indoor 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.
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