Electric Fly Swatter Bug Zapper Racket, 4000V, Rechargeable

With the UK heatwave, I had to get one of these. I was using one of those manual swatters but I was getting too annoyed so I picked one of these electric ones up. The quality of the swatter is great, I have absolutely no issues with it. It's light weight, which is great as you'll be swatting, so last thing you need is something on the heavier side. The installation was very seamless. Once you unbox it, you charge it for 3 hours and then you won't need to charge it for 3 months. Which is absolutely fantastic. The device has a protection layer on each side to protect you from accidentally touching it when in use. I have not tried touching it myself, but I can assure you, you'd have to stick your finger in pretty hard to for it to get you. There are 3 options on the device. Off, Manual and Always on. As you see on my picture, the always on features a dim light, which attracts the flies to the swatter so it can zap it. The manual version, you will need to hold down an additional button on the side right under the options, that way it's only live and active once you press that additional button. The off, well is just that. Now for the sound, it did give me a big surprise at first as this is my first zapper I've owned. It is a little bit loud, but I assume all zappers sound like that, so it doesn't bother me at all. I DEFINITELY prefer using this to my old swatter that is just a piece flappy plastic where you hope the fly lands so you get a hit on it. Saves you a lot of time hunting them when they're inside. You CAN use these on spiders too, however, since it's like a tennis racket, you have to face it flat against a wall and then hope the spider touches it. I did manage to get a spider once and it has worked, just a little trickier. I would definitely recommend this if you have a fly issue, especially in this current UK heatwave with these flies just constantly wanting to fly inside and annoy you.

Essential item for these hot and humid days and nights, flying insects don’t stand a chance. Great item, well constructed, easy to use.

I am suffering from an invasion (tens every hot day) of what is probably the awkward cluster fly: they certainly are awkward, in that if I open a window to let them out they promptly fly in the other direction. Fly spray only seems to annoy them, and I don't like using a lot of it around either myself or my pets. This electronic swatter does work well, though it does take some learning to use and it isn't as completely humane as I was hoping. (N.B. I know the jury is out on whether or not flies feel pain, but it seems rash to ASSUME that something with such a highly developed sensory system cannot). Firstly, the stand isn't a charging dock: rather the swatter charges from a USB plug. This doesn't seem to matter if using it as a swatter because it still retains the first charge after a good thirty or forty uses. Secondly, it does take a little time to learn to hit the flies squarely and firmly, but it does also seem to be a straightforward matter of practice. I've generally used it in the fixed on position because I find it awkward to hold the press button down, but this doesn't matter much. It isn't what the instructions say but it works. (The instructions are in bad English, which clinched my giving four rather than five stars, but they are decipherable). With something the size of a cluster fly, it can be annoyingly difficult to get a clean kill. If the fly gets caught in the meshes, there will generally been several loud sparks of baby lightning, and the fly will start burning. I've had no problems simply tapping these dead flies out into bin or toilet. The smell of burned fly isn't nice, but I find it difficult to believe that any fly caught like that knows what hit it: it goes in seconds from living to completely dead. It feels brutal, but most genuinely humane methods of killing animals feel like that. More commonly, however, the fly will bounce off and drop to the floor in circular convulsions, from which I have seen them recover. I am not sure what is going on here. I have been able to pick most of these flies up and either squash them firmly in a piece of kitchen paper, or drop them back onto the fly racket for a further, more immediately effective shock. I have occasionally not been able to find a dropped fly, and sometimes the racket has gone off, but the fly has been apparently unharmed or merely slower: it is impossible to guess the injury level in such cases. With so many flies, it is difficult to keep track of the one hit. However, for the most part, I'd still reckon it is probably a lot better than flyspray or traps on the humaneness scale in general, as it is much quicker when it does work, and flyspray has its own share of oblique hits. Traps are generally very slow. And I have gradually become better at hitting them hard, though there is still a lot of room for improvement. I think it probably is a lot more effective for getting rid of this type of fly than spray, though it may depend on a lot of variables, and, as I say, cluster flies seem annoyingly indifferent to the spray I'm used to using. I haven't had a shock from the swatter yet: it seems to be well designed and well guarded. I feel it is necessary to be careful of the fire risk, however. If it can set a fly burning within a few seconds, it might set light to paper etc., in much the same way. The burning flies themselves don't seem to be a fire risk, though I was initially a bit concerned: they char when actually stuck in the racket with a current running, but I've picked them up in my hands straight after without problems. There isn't much volume of fly to really get hot enough to cause anything else to catch fire, and there is not much fuel in a fly and a lot of liquid to damp it out, once the current is removed. However, the water in the toilet does seem the most secure place for a recently charred fly! Also, if you have nervous pets (or children) this may not be the best thing to use around them because of the loud, sudden noise. I can't imagine using it as a passive insect killer because it would not really be passive, between the fireworks and the smell. But perhaps these are less of an issue when using it on things like mosquitoes, which are much smaller. (My current cluster fly invasion consists of flies which are, in general, a little smaller than a greenbottle blowfly). If you're happy with the fact that effective use takes some learning, are not bothered by fireworks, and are not too squeamish about handling/squashing flies when necessary, then I recommend it from every point of view.

This is not an ideal product if you are squeamish. Details about why are included further down in this review, so skip over (after the second paragraph) if you don't want to know. This charges via USB-C, it comes with an A-to-C cable, and seems to deliver a pretty solid electrical wallop to the flies that I've used it on. I like the option to turn it either "on but you have to press the side button" or "constantly on", as I find the latter more convenient to use. I haven't tried leaving it turned-on in the little vertical stand as a "trap". Squeamish people should stop reading now. Electrical arcing noise can be heard - and sometimes little blue spark flashes seen - when an insect bridges the electrical contacts to complete the circuit and zap them in to the insect afterlife. Larger flies may require multiple zappings to render them fully deceased, and I have had a "dead" fly come back to some amount of life and make distressing buzzing sounds at the bottom of the bin I keep at my desk. So now I use a spare bit of paper to pick them up and drop them out the window instead. There is also the potential (pun intended) for a bit of burnt-hair smell as a byproduct of dumping thousands of volts through small annoying insect bodies. In some cases, I have known smaller flies to end up *BLOWN TO BITS* after their encounter with this. If you can cope with that sort of thing, this is an EXCELLENT electric fly swatter / zapper / exploder.

Been using it for 6 months. Works as described. Can be used by just leaving it on and as a portable zapper. Really helped with fruit fly infestation

I have bought lots of bats but this one is fantastic no batteries you charge it

It doesn't attract the flies or mosquitoes. They actively avoid it. It does zap them if you can hit them yourself. The light is quite bright for night time and as it is blue, I am not sure it's good for sleeping. It's expensive for what it does but I like the fact it's rechargeable so still ok as a zapper but it won't fix the fly problem for us.

Been using for a month, it works well as a bat you can definitely hear when you've hit a fly as it is loud. I've tried leaving it on in its stand but it doesn't seem to attract anything. But Tlthe battery lasts over a day that way which is good. One note i think theres a buzzing sound that can be heard by cats but not people. My cat seemed to become quite anxious when I left it on attract mode.

Very satisfying product

I swear the mosquitoes can hear this thing every time I get it they run!!! Lol it’s really satisfying though

Die Kombination aus manueller Klatsche und dem automatischen Modus mit UV-Licht ist genial. Tagsüber erwischt man Fliegen mühelos in der Luft, und abends stellt man das Gerät einfach in die Station mit dem UV-Licht – das Insektenvernichten erledigt sich dann von ganz allein. Das Gerät hat ordentlich Durchschlagskraft; selbst größere Insekten haben keine Chance. Trotz der starken Leistung ist die Klatsche dank des 3-Schicht-Schutzgitters sicher in der Handhabung. Der Akku hält lange durch und lässt sich ganz bequem über das mitgelieferte USB-C-Kabel wieder aufladen. Verarbeitung, Funktion und Preis-Leistung stimmen hier absolut.

Muy buenas.

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