The electric bug killer is the best way of clearing the area around you 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 is not to say that the hand held bug zapper 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 killer dry and definitely do not use it while you are standing in water!
Models do vary greatly, but there are really only two kinds of hand held bug zapper: the battery operated bug killer and the rechargeable electric bug killer. Both are equally effective at zapping insects and employ 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 innermost network of wires becomes live at the touch of a button, while the other two networks, one on either side, are harmless earths.
When a bug is caught between the wires of the indoor insect killer, it creates a short, which evaporates it instantly with a loud crack and a flash. The electric bug killer will zap other insects too, but they just burn instead of explode.
I have been using the rechargeable kind for more than five years and am extremely satisfied with the electric insect killer. In fact, the electric insect zapper has come a long way over the last few years. A fully charged electric bug killer is powerful enough to last for several hundred swipes and will hold it's charge, if unused, for weeks without any noticeable discharge.
The rechargeable battery unit will take serious use for the best part of a year, although its capability 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 shines 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 plugged in for recharge.
The instructions suggest 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 hand held insect killer shows a marked increase in performance with only a couple of hours charging.
The latest version I've had also comes with a powerful 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 kill them if you're feeling bored or just vindictive, rather like an Anglerfish.
I've used the headlamp on my electric bug killer for that too, but the headlamp uses a lot of battery power. All in all, the hand held insect killer is a big asset to any outdoor event. The indoor 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.
However, this is not to say that the hand held bug zapper 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 killer dry and definitely do not use it while you are standing in water!
Models do vary greatly, but there are really only two kinds of hand held bug zapper: the battery operated bug killer and the rechargeable electric bug killer. Both are equally effective at zapping insects and employ 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 innermost network of wires becomes live at the touch of a button, while the other two networks, one on either side, are harmless earths.
When a bug is caught between the wires of the indoor insect killer, it creates a short, which evaporates it instantly with a loud crack and a flash. The electric bug killer will zap other insects too, but they just burn instead of explode.
I have been using the rechargeable kind for more than five years and am extremely satisfied with the electric insect killer. In fact, the electric insect zapper has come a long way over the last few years. A fully charged electric bug killer is powerful enough to last for several hundred swipes and will hold it's charge, if unused, for weeks without any noticeable discharge.
The rechargeable battery unit will take serious use for the best part of a year, although its capability 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 shines 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 plugged in for recharge.
The instructions suggest 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 hand held insect killer shows a marked increase in performance with only a couple of hours charging.
The latest version I've had also comes with a powerful 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 kill them if you're feeling bored or just vindictive, rather like an Anglerfish.
I've used the headlamp on my electric bug killer for that too, but the headlamp uses a lot of battery power. All in all, the hand held insect killer is a big asset to any outdoor event. The indoor 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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