We occasionally get pantry moths from bird seed around the house. These make a sport out of hunting them down, and put on a show doing it. Recommended.
Several times the sale price of the ones from Harbor Freight, not any more suitable for use in actually swatting a fly that has landed, and in my experience, the zap that they deliver isn’t as loud as the cheap ones. But, after all, this is Meh.
I finally found a use for mine. We have been getting pestered by tiny bugs like gnats, and it turned out that they were slightly attracted to UV. I set one of these up on the dining table, with enough stuff around it to keep the cats from knocking it over, and less than 48 hours later, after a satisfying number of zaps, we aeem to be free of those bugs
@werehatrack Yep - this is tree fruit harvest season, so there are piles of apples, bartlett pears and asian pears waiting to be processed. And, of course, many fruit flies. It is actually kind of morbidly entertaining to wave my hands over the fruit to stir them up and then swish the zapper back and forth to the sound of Bzzt! Pop! Snap! …
For those who may have been using these things in the setup that keeps the unit vertical in the charger and on all the time, I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that the charging circuitry in these is not terrible, but it’s not terribly sensitive either. Leaving the charger on continually for months seems to adversely effect the battery life. Of course, they aren’t designed for user serviceable battery replacement. The good news is that if you decide to try to tackle that task, the 18650 battery inside is soldered in place, and I have already located the the two screws flanking it which are each hidden under a sticker. You need to remove those two screws plus the four up near the flat paddle of the racket on the handle in order to get access to the battery. That battery is of a brand that I’ve never seen, and does not have any capacity markings. It does appear to have a protection circuit on one end of it, so you’ll want to use a protected battery to replace it. If you know how to solder on PC boards, you can probably handle this. If you don’t, you will be presented with the opportunity to create a time bomb. Unfortunately, injudicious soldering of lithium batteries can melt the plastic separators that keep the positive and negative electrodes from coming into contact with each other. If you are successful in doing that, at some point the battery will short out internally, catch fire, and do bad things to whatever it is inside of. I’m going to spot weld tabs onto the ends of the replacement cell that I’m going to put into mine, and solder to those tabs to provide heat isolation for the battery. And that means that I will probably actually do the repair sometime in late June or in July.
Specs
Product Name: 2-Pack: Gloue 3000 Volt Rechargeable Electric Fly Swatters with Stands
Model: B08Q7F3D8L
Condition: New
What’s Included?
Price Comparison
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Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, May 8 - Thursday, May 11
Rechargable? So these shocking things have unlimited power?
Can I use this on my coworkers?
We occasionally get pantry moths from bird seed around the house. These make a sport out of hunting them down, and put on a show doing it. Recommended.
Bought these on a previous offering, they work great!
Several times the sale price of the ones from Harbor Freight, not any more suitable for use in actually swatting a fly that has landed, and in my experience, the zap that they deliver isn’t as loud as the cheap ones. But, after all, this is Meh.
@werehatrack HF ones are not rechargeable and don’t have a stand I think? Those here you can effectively use as a stationary swatter, too
@datruandi I found them remarkably ineffective in stationary UV mode.
@werehatrack I hear a zapping sound frequently.
@datruandi Apparently you don’t have the same bugs we do.
I finally found a use for mine. We have been getting pestered by tiny bugs like gnats, and it turned out that they were slightly attracted to UV. I set one of these up on the dining table, with enough stuff around it to keep the cats from knocking it over, and less than 48 hours later, after a satisfying number of zaps, we aeem to be free of those bugs
@werehatrack Yep - this is tree fruit harvest season, so there are piles of apples, bartlett pears and asian pears waiting to be processed. And, of course, many fruit flies. It is actually kind of morbidly entertaining to wave my hands over the fruit to stir them up and then swish the zapper back and forth to the sound of Bzzt! Pop! Snap! …
For those who may have been using these things in the setup that keeps the unit vertical in the charger and on all the time, I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that the charging circuitry in these is not terrible, but it’s not terribly sensitive either. Leaving the charger on continually for months seems to adversely effect the battery life. Of course, they aren’t designed for user serviceable battery replacement. The good news is that if you decide to try to tackle that task, the 18650 battery inside is soldered in place, and I have already located the the two screws flanking it which are each hidden under a sticker. You need to remove those two screws plus the four up near the flat paddle of the racket on the handle in order to get access to the battery. That battery is of a brand that I’ve never seen, and does not have any capacity markings. It does appear to have a protection circuit on one end of it, so you’ll want to use a protected battery to replace it. If you know how to solder on PC boards, you can probably handle this. If you don’t, you will be presented with the opportunity to create a time bomb. Unfortunately, injudicious soldering of lithium batteries can melt the plastic separators that keep the positive and negative electrodes from coming into contact with each other. If you are successful in doing that, at some point the battery will short out internally, catch fire, and do bad things to whatever it is inside of. I’m going to spot weld tabs onto the ends of the replacement cell that I’m going to put into mine, and solder to those tabs to provide heat isolation for the battery. And that means that I will probably actually do the repair sometime in late June or in July.