Flowtron BK-80D - Bug Zapper - L2Survive with Thatnub
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- Flowtron BK-80D: amzn.to/334BXp2
This is by far, the best bug zapper I have ever had. 1 1/2 acres worth of protection and it's fun to watch. We took this thing camping and our spot was right on the lake. We had to turn it off because it was attracting every little critter. It seemed like it was just one long zap. There were bugs climbing up the pole we had it hanging on just to get zapped. Clean up was pretty easy except a couple of spots where critters were baked on. Now that we bought a house with two and a half acres we might have to get one of these for the back yard as well.
I could watch that bug zapper fry those little critters for hours. There's something very satisfying about it.
TheASTrader lmfao
Literally thought the exact same thing. Especially the ones that smolder into a big puff of smoke 😈
Double kill
Triple kill!
Killing spree!
Rampage!
Unstoppable!
God Like!
+Roger Altamirano Ha...........
I'm a simple man, I see dead mosquitoes and I hit like.
I love this thing too.
I got the smaller one. They are AMAZING! I named mine The Green Mile. There are no wet sponges here!
So happy you like it! We'd love to hear your experience with the zapper in the past 9 years!
After we bought our house, we stopped using it. We live in the desert and the thought of one of those moths catching fire, dropping down and starting a brush fire in the middle of the night was too great. We are going to put it up in our chicken run, less fire risk there. We have the run built and the coop is up but, needs to be finished inside. I just haven't been motivated enough to buy the chicks yet. I will make a video showing the results after everything is finished.
@@L2Survive Awesome! We're excited to see the video once you post it :)
You need to post an 8 hour version of the zapper.
I have an older huge Flowtron I bought in the late 70's and that thing is still running with it's original bulbs one bulb has the same UV colour as yours but the other is like those black light bulbs used to check your admission stamp to a rock concert. The beauty of those is that whenever they fry any bug, that in turn creates a small downwind Co2 trail the mosquitos actually follow from hundreds of yards away.
I never looked it up but I figured that was the only reason I would have so many mosquitos without any attractant added.
Sometimes it would get so covered that you couldn't even see the light on. Now after a bug gets stuck on it, it will stop zapping after a minute or so.
Some bugs catch on fire and some make it stop working
Flowtron Diplomat? FC 8800
They should hang these things over local ponds. Get mosquitoes at the source.
It would get you some nice well fed trout on a lake shore!
Put the Flowtron Diplomat over it (huge beast)
Just a suggestion I always hang a 5 gallon bucket with a rope underneath it will catch a lot of bugs that are zapped and not killed. Many will fall in the bucket and die where otherwise they could recover and move on.
With a little soapy water at the bottom to drown them?
A really satisfying sound....love the smell of bugs in the morning....victory... lol
Right?!
I have an original one of these from the 80s and it still works fine to this day. I had to fix it a couple of times because the wire for the high voltage grid had burned insulation and was arcing to the metal housing. Some plastic tubing did the job. I mounted a piece of metal roof edge underneath it and it gets tons of toasted bugs. The birds love it in the morning.
just wait till a lizard gets in there they pop and zap for like 5 minutes
Your comment is the funniest lol
Looks like Chicken fast food..fried nice and crispy, LOL
Lol
Don't taze me bro!
Just bought a used one off eBay, I had the 40watt flowtron that was lost during a move. I replaced it with a small, no name cheap junk... that was a mistake. This will solve the fly problem once and for all.
That one was smokin
I'm sold! lol
We like this one place to camp in Montana, Bull River in The Cabinet Mtns. Depending on the season, lots of gnats, flies and yellow jackets. Would love to set that up there when we go this year.
They all have one design flaw. The top becomes brittle and cracks when in the sun for a long time. Only 2 screws holding the top plastic to the unit. Flowtron sells replacement tops as they often break.
I have just got an indoor bug zapper in my kitchen in Asia and Wow! the bugs really get zapped. Our cook is (very) pleased.
Ali Ismail
what kind did you get
Mosquitoes and house flies :).
You add it to your food
Great review. Thank you!
Quality entertainment!
Thank you sooooooooo much. I LOOOOOOOVE watching bug zappers. Last year, 2015 we had a bug zapper. We actually went through two. One we had for like four days, and I was the first one to notice It was broken, cause the light was on, but no zapping Dad had no idea even though I told him, and then a week later of me nagging him to look, he did, and discovered a wire was burned out. I loooooved to watch the bug zapper at night, sometimes sitting outside underneath, or almost underneath for up to three hours one evening. After we got the new one, wehad it for about two months, then I went into the hospital in September, and was in for 28 days, undergoing three operations, then having to have CPR like four or five times, and the Drs. knew the only reason I kept begging to go home was so I could continuemaking the coffee for my Mom and dad, like I LOOOOOOOOOVE doing, and also to watchthe bug zapper. by the time I went home with a trach, and a ventilator Dad unplugged the bug zapper. Dadleft it out throughthe winter after I warned him that'd be a bad idea, and then on the first day of march, I begged him for hours not shutting up until he letme plug it in, and what do you know? The thing had the light, but didn't zap, and then the blue light went out. Dad never let us get a new one. I LOOOOOOOOOOVED watching that thing every single night!!
I’ve been looking for a video on how to feed chickens with a bug zapper
Do you use the mosquito attractant at all?
how is it with flies during the day. I just bought a Stinger 3n1 bug zapper and wasn't impressed. Seems like the vintage zappers from the 80s with the wire mesh on the outside worked wonders.
Sadly, tiny bugs are not big enough to complete the electrical circuit so they get a pass. They need to make a model with a smaller grid.
Any horseflies caught??
hey when you were unboxing it did it come with any solution like a powder or liquid or anything like that to attract mosquitoes
+papinbala Yes it did but, I have not used it yet. Saving it for a camping trip.
+L2Survive ohhh ok so it works well even without it huh? ok good to know.
+L2Survive I think you should have said something about that when you were unboxing. just a friendly suggestion.
@@garyenwards1608 wtf I almost couldn't breathe from laughing so hard at your comment
Remember that AD with Vincent Price That was Great
does it work good on flies?
I don't know if flies are attracted to that type of light. This fly in my office right now seems to like my GE LED. I wonder if they ever thought of making a regular light bulb with a zapper for indoor use?
Were you using an attractant? Two I ordered came with Flowtron Octenol.
They need one that's for the daytime to zap when your having a cook out or guest over so you won't get bit by mosquitos what's the point killing them when your sleeping
Exactly. If you find one, let me know.
10:36 dang! lol
Will this work during the day?
Thanks for the review
I think it zapped the cricket in the end. lol
Is it loud? I'm worried it will make my dog bark all night. We went from no flies in our house to over 100 in one night. And they dont seem to be stopping.
tkdrgnon It is not loud. We have dogs here and they couldn't care less about it. Even if they did at first, it is one of those things that you get use to and forget is even there.
tkdrgnon Doesn't make my dog bark, it freaks her out and makes her run and hide. LOL
Just ordered one from Amazon for the same reason as you - minimal drama in the reviews. One question, though, if I may be a bit tounge-in-cheek: does the chicken or eggs taste different after a diet of "barbecue bugs?"
LOL BBQ Chicken Eggs. You could sell that.
Well my original Flowtron died so I got one like this on Amazon. We'll see how it works.
Your white leghorn chicken is cute
7:25 What ASMR should be.
Fried insects,yummy
It's middle of May now
I also I love this model bug defense >:)
It should be mandatory for every house to own one lol
reminds me of the "Green Mile"
Does it come with stand to hang
What type of stand is this sitting on?
Hello there. Is it okay to leave it on during heavy rain? I live in FL, and it has been raining heavily everyday for a few times a day.
You can leave it on unless the tain is coming in sideways. It's pretty much water proof.
@@ronsmith1886 I see, that's true, thank you very much!
Wow, that’s not near as powerful as they used to be. Why have they decreased the power so much? Last one I had was 30 years ago. I have thinking of getting another and have noticed that the manufacturers don’t tell the output power now. Why not?
The modern cheap ones use a circuit board with cheap electronics. The old ones and the flowtron models use the same technology used in the old ones, a basic high voltage transformer. The reason the bugs are stuck in the grid in this video is probably because the insects got dried out before they finished being zapped. But I think the grid current on the flowtron is much higher vs the cheap circuit board ones.
@ 12:05 there is actually a flame!
I need a zapper to kill flies during the day. The flies pester my dogs all day. Does this work well during the day?
It works well on things attracted to light. When we took it camping with us last year, it was zapping bugs by the lake all day.
I have the same unit. I scares the hell out of my dog when it pops a bug...and doesn't seem to catch any of the annoying bugs (gnats or skeeters especially) - just good bugs which I've never even seen bothering me. Most pest bugs don't care about blue light....they are attracted to CO2 or other chemicals that indicate animal presence.
The mosquito attractant is the only thing that will make it attract skeeters - I would have low expectations. If you decide to keep it, situate it away from the house so you don't bait bugs to your area.
It's a waste - and may even reduce your beneficial insect population....leading to even more bad bugs for you. :(
(Wish I had placed a review on Amazon when I bought it since it has such overwhelmingly positive reviews - no indication of the downsides.)
NTACvOS I may have more gnats than you do but, I constantly see these little bugs getting popped by this zapper.
L2Survive [Sorry this is so long...I'm just wordy! Trying to be helpful , I swear! LOL] Anything is possible and I've never been to Washington State, but just to give perspective on the mid-atlantic area where I am (Washington D.C.-area)..
It is in large measure a swamp - much of it having been drained and the streams buried under all the neighborhoods. The summers are hot, wet and humid, the winters are wet and mild - I doubt anyone further north has bugs the way we do here. If that weren't bad enough (bug-wise), my little suburban property borders a preserved wetland. BUG CITY!
Further, the gnats I have are vicious, focusing on attacking eyes, nose and ear openings. I've been chased out of my own yard by them on many occasions. I still haven't gotten a positive ID on them, but I suspect they are these guys: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratopogonidae. These are not the gnats that buzz around your food or just swarm over the lawn in clusters. ;) (There are probably thousands of kinds of gnats...mostly GOOD GUYS who are plant decomposers.) My gnats also only seem to be out during sunlight hours. Gardening at night has been known to happen in my yard. (Though not often.)
That's already more typing that I wanted...to sum up, I doubt you have more bugs than me and I doubt they are as annoying. ;)
Also, if you were able to ID the bugs in the pile at the bottom of your zapper, most would be GOOD BUGS or neutral bugs. Unless you are using octenol to attract mosquitos, it's extremely unlikely any of the bugs in your pile are mosquitos.
King County in Washington State (at least close to you, if not where you are) offers this guide, specifically guiding against the usage of bug zappers for the reasons I mentioned:
www.kingcounty.gov/environment/stewardship/nw-yard-and-garden/yard-talk/episodes/13-good-bugs-bad-bugs.aspx
My curent plan for dealing with the gnats is to eliminate as much open-lawn (and open-woodchip) area as possible by planting more non-grass plants and including some raised beds and mounded plantings. The hope is that this plan will reduce the available habitat for them and, by increasing texture of the soil (non-flat so more areas can dry out between rains) and variety of plants/flowers, and therefore increase the attractiveness of my property to even more good bugs and birds, including gnat predators.
Good luck with your bugs in any event!! :)
NTACvOS Oh! Get yourself some Skeeter Beater™ if you're getting personally harassed by your bugs. It's way better than DEET sprays and is made from plant oils (like geranium, peppermint and rosemary). It's VERY smelly though, so you won't want to be inside with it on. :)
I apply it to my shoes and hat when I'm outside and get from 20min to an hour of protection on a hot, sweaty day. (And I remove the hat and shoes before spending time inside.)
L2Survive Ew! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_zapper#Drawbacks Never even thought about that second one!
One key quote from the article:
"A study over a summer found that 13,789 insects were killed, of which 31 were biting insects." and there's a good citation for that on Wikipedia if you want more info. :)
I think flies are the main target we'd care about using a zapper. Or yellowjacket's/wasps if you need to target a nest. If flies and yellowjackets aren't the main problem, a repellant is probably the best solution for the bugs that bug you and me. To make a zapper work on skeeters requires an attractant. May as well buy personal repellant IMO....then it goes where you go for 100% coverage.
LOL
@@NTACvOS Any bug that manages to wander into the proximity of where I could potentially become aware of it's existence is a "BAD BUG".... imo lolol
PS, I'm 100% dead ass serious 😐 shit I would find immense pleasure in recording time-lapse footage of massacre every night and play that shit in the background as part of my daily morning routine 🤩
(hey buddy, no offense intended here, but I have three college degrees and you keep using the word”whatnot”......WHAT THE HELL IS A “WHAT NOT”)?
how did moving it to the chickens pen work?
+gljay The extension cord was really long so, I only did it for a couple of days before moving it back. It worked out pretty well though. Just keep the cord above the chickens reach. Since this pen was covered at the top, it was easy enough.
+L2Survive this is what I was thinking of doing when I finally get the global currency reset and my investment comes in. I might even add a regular light near by to attract more.
Good.
Does it work on black flies?
+Scott Steel I don't know. It works on anything that is attracted to light. It will work with mosquitoes but, you have to use a mosquito attracter.
11:45
MMMM...BBQ
Miata is looking a little rough.
It did back then but, for her 25 birthday, I poured about $3k into it and got her a new top, clutch, brakes and a whole lot more. I could have swapped her out for a little newer model but, ya gotta dance with the one you brought.
nice I want 1 :)
where did you get it from
Cut the plastic cage off it 😂
It's better than Mac Donalds............
Are mosquitos attracted to this?
Mosquitos are attracted to heat, sweat and CO2. Unless you put the mosquito bait in it, you will not get many zapped.
This guy didnt use any bait & it was steady frying bugs.
97warlock ismyname I have one of these, doesn't get too many mosquito though. Just regular bugs, moths
My main reason is for mosquitos. I just plugged it in about 20 minutes ago just outside my bedroom window about 10 feet from house, hasnt its 750pm & I saw a Mosquito floating around it several times but he didnt go in it. So far not even one zap.
Love it. Each night I hang it out just before dark & plug it in ......... Every 5 seconds another Dead mosquito & sometimes a few at a time even, wish everybody had one, there'd be no Zeka
Just cut out the bottom
Has anyone said u sound like Johnn Goodman?😂😂😂😂
No. You would have to be the first. I have a lot of people tell me that I have the voice (and face) for radio. That comes from when I was a DJ at a roller skating rink for a few years growing up.
aren't there any that don't need to be plugged in to work? its fuckin pissing me off
Try these amzn.to/29NJbVY
You do realize how many volts and how much energy they need to do this right? Thats why batteries don't last long on big ones. Stop being pissed off by your ignorance and start learning
Who is that girl at 1:07?
That is Babygirl, my daughter.
They should build one for Donald Trump's. To zap him when he's lying