3800V Bug Zapper

This is a powerful zapper! The gnats have been terrible this year in my house, and after trying sticky traps (miserable failure) I got fed up and bought this zapper, honestly not expecting that much. Well, I set it on my kitchen counter, plugged it in, was blinded by the light (literally) and when a gnat hit it, you could hear the crack of lightning at the other end of the house! I am not exaggerating. It vaporized the gnat. When a fly or moth hits it, it sounds like a helium balloon just exploded next to your head. I'm sure this little unit could also be utilized outdoors, though your neighborhood might think you've opened up a shooting range in your backyard from the sound. I've never had a larger bug zapper before, so perhaps this is normal. So, pros are that this zapper is very effective against large and small flying insects, it is compact enough for your countertops or the top of your fridge, there is no annoying buzzing sound when in operation, and it makes a great nightlight for half our house. Cons are that it is loud when a bug gets zapped. Our four dogs bark at the crack of insect doom from the other end of the house, one of them now refuses to enter the kitchen and everyone in the household flinches and cringes when within 5 feet of the unit in anticipation of an impending strike of bug induced lightning. My husband is the exception, so another pro is that he is highly entertained by the gnats being electrocuted. He is also happy (or secretly disappointed, hard to tell) that he no longer is chasing the hundreds of gnats around the kitchen swinging wildly with the electric tennis racket (lightweight handheld battery powered zapper that never did anything, in my opinion) or attempting to vacuum them off the ceiling, appliances, etc with the vacuum hose (which was mildly successful and quite fun to watch a grown man wildly wave around a vacuum hose after microscopic insects traveling the speed of an F14.) My conclusion is that this was a great buy, I'd recommend to a friend, space friendly, insect unfriendly, nice longer cord, powerful, but be prepared for all in household to have PTSD every time someone snaps their fingers from the time of the first buggy demise on. Next 4th of July should be fun for all of us.

In spring and summer I constantly have flies in the house. It seems every time I open the door for dogs 1 fly breaks free but 4 more seem to get in. 3 dogs in and out, plus me... My cats are amused but I'm not! I installed this 2 days ago by the door up high. NO FLIES! I had about 30 buzzing around. All gone! It is loud but I'm not bothered by the ZAPP. It basically tells me its working. I did have an issue with both replacement bulbs being damaged. I contacted the seller and we are working it out.

I rarely get the energy to write a product review for Amazon. However I had a situation where overnight my cat managed to get the back door open and for weeks I was dealing with flies everywhere in my kitchen, in my bathroom, in my living room. It was disgusting, and I needed a solution that didn't include getting rid of the cat. (Bless that polydactyl freak of nature but I love him, he's done it 2 more times since AND tried to during writing this review) BUT this product works and works well. The loud cracks and zaps scared the shit out of me and it sounded like a quiet gun fight in my downstairs but within a day the flies weren't noticeable walking around and by day 2 I wasn't finding any. If this thing broke tomorrow I would still get another one to have in case I needed it again. And so far I have had to use the extra bulbs that came with so I can't speak if they work or not but for the core product I couldn't be more impressed.

I had a moth infestation in my garage... no idea where they were coming from, since there's no food in there, but they were multiplying. (There are some clothes in a closed plastic bin, but no moths inside.)Anyway, since the moths appeared to be multiplying, I ordered this, then set this up. (The set up took about 30 seconds.) Then I turned it on and waited.The moths mostly ignored it, but eventually several of them came over to investigate, got zapped and died. I like that it's an instant death; it's so quick for them, it can't be very painful (I'm hoping). The traps that catch insects on a sticky surface while they slowly die seem cruel.The ad claims that there's no odor; this isn't quite true. After the one I bought had been left on for three days in the garage, I went in there to check on it; there was an acrid metallic smell in the air. Maybe a big moth had just died and burned up or something, or maybe the device just eventually makes the air smell... not sure which. After that I stopped leaving it on full time.This may sound funny, but I started wondering if, when it's on full time, the bugs may become wary of it, after seeing other bugs die when they fly up to it. (I'm not sure how much moths perceive dangers of that sort, but I'm sure they can detect the smell of burned-up moths.) When I was leaving it on full time it only killed two moths, as if the others were avoiding it. It seemed more effective when I'd turn it off during the day then turn it on at night (with no other lights in the room to attract the moths)It killed six moths total (based on the remains); I'm not sure how many there were in the garage before. I never saw more than three or four at once. So maybe it's killed them all. Time will tell. If more turn up, I'll turn it back on again.The ad shows a little brush you can use to clean dead bugs off of the grill and implies that it's included; mine didn't contain one, which was not a deal breaker but was a nuisance. I'll have to come up with some other way of cleaning the bugs off of the grill.

We live on a farm and during certain times of the year the flies are uncontrollable. My home is clean, trash is kept sealed and no matter what I do they are everywhere inside and out. I finally gave up on all the other methods to get rid of them and purchase the zapper. Within 24 hours I no longer have any flies buzzing around the house. Yes it's noisy and unsightly in the home but so are flies. This unit saved my sanity. I would say this is the most cost effective and quickest way to get rid of flying bugs in the home.

Después del tiempo sigue prendiendo y solo los que pasan los elimina pero creo que ya no atrae a los mosquitos quiero saber si son los tubos, aunque prenden, lo compre y me funciono, pero si hay que ver sino lo han rediseñado y esto hace que no sirvan debería tener dos rejas una para insectos mucho mas pequeños, ver la vida util lámpara UV y el tamaño para remplazarlo.Compre otros de otra marca y trate de ponerle un cordon de plastico y solo unos 2 milimetros aplaste el aluminio y lo prendi cuando paso un mosquito dejo caer la carga de energia y como pegaba con el aluminio se generó un corto que que barbaro si lo hubise jalado mi madre se ubise pegado, no le ponen asislante en la parte superior y cuando se aplasta o aboya por algun motivo ni pensarlo no lo deje al alcace de los niños piencenlo estos aparatos deben esta bien diseños y con proteccion.

Poor product. Unable to catch a single mosquito for the past 3 days we used the two of them. I bought. Now returning them. Perhaps, the design, attempting to catch mosquito from the base, seems impractical. Or, the power cut may have permitted the mosquitos to escape. I was more successful to kill around five mosquitos with bare hands last night. Product is waste of money

Es un producto bueno contra mosquitos/moscas/mosquitos de fruta, debido a que si los atrae, sin embargo, no le doy 5 estrellas, por que en su gran mayoría no los mata, solo los paraliza, pero tu tienes que en algunas ocasiones, rematarlos

working well ,but mosquitoes are not died we have to leave outside of the house

Desde el primer día comenzó a trabajar!!! En dos días mato más de 20 mini mosquitas, un par de moscas grandes y algunos moscos. Por el precio tenía mis dudas pero al ver que Si funciona voy a ordenar otro!!!Es caro pero vale la pena porque si funciona, lo único es que si hace ruido cada vez que mata algún insecto y tarda en llegar.P.d. Lean el instructivo antes de conectarlo! Yo lo conecte primero y luego vi que trae los tubos de reemplazo adentro, lo apague y los saque pero me alcance a dar un buen toque (aún desconectado) porque toque sin querer la parrilla donde los mata.