On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:11:58 +0100, Simon C. . wrote:

Never seen these before. Do they work OK? Only a fiver at Aldi tomo
but it will be tricky for me to get to Aldi so don't want to make the
effort if they're rubbish.

Worth it. Swipe wildly at a whining bloodsucking mozzie in a dark bedroom at
night, be rewarded with a crack, flash and spark, and you'll agree.

Ther's two kinds: one with three grids, and anything between an outer grid and
the inner one gets zapped in a spark and cloud of smoke (ok, small spark, tiny
puff). Hard to get a wasp in far enough, good enopugh for mozzies and flies.
T'other kind has just a single flat layer of wires: anything touching two
adjacent wires gets fried. Makes it easy to zap larger insects, but hurts like
the devil if you touch it -- can't happen accidentally on the three-layered one.
Takes ten seconds or so for the bleed resistor to take the charge down to
painless levels after it's off, too.



Thomas Prufer