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The hand held bug zapper is the best way of clearing the area around you of insects, especially the flying ones like mosquitoes. The indoor insect killer 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 outside, as long as it is not raining. It should be treated like any other high voltage electrical equipment. Keep the indoor insect killer 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 zapper and the rechargeable electric insect killer. Both models are equally effective at killing bugs and employ the same principle.

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

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

I have been using the rechargeable kind for about five years and am extremely satisfied with the electric insect killer. In fact, the electric bug zapper has come a long way in the last few years. A fully charged hand held insect zapper is powerful enough to last for several hundred swipes and will hold it’s charge, when 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 several weeks slowly diminishes after six or seven months.

The most recent indoor insect killer I’ve used has a main on/off switch, an LED 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 the zapper is plugged in for recharge.

The instructions suggest 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 killer shows a large increase in performance after only a few hours recharging.

The latest version 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 indoor bug killer for that reason as well, but the beam uses a lot of battery power. All in all, the hand held bug zapper is a huge asset to any outdoor event. The electric insect 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 as well.

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