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today i've got the total vision solar bug zapper lantern paid $12.99 for two
dollies solar powered and it's a bug zapper - as I'm reading this box it says
the total vision solar bug zapper lantern doubles as an LED Lantern and a
mosquito zapper light this is the total vision item and as far as I know it's
not an as seen on tv item but total vision products are usually in the
asking on TV aisle so I kinda consider like a national TV item we all we all
know what a bug zapper is and we all know what a solar-powered light is so I
don't think this is gonna be too hard to operate we'll take a look at it and then
we'll get it charging up smells like a new product right out of the box it's
got the classic solar panel on top so we know what that we all know what that is
so we go ahead and take the plastic off that and that's oh so satisfying I want
to eat a little bit of crow and look at the directions real quick but I won't
make you look at them with me I'll just tell you what they say okay so I've read
the instructions a little bit and it sounds like it's a dual light for my
understanding could be wrong about this it does say it has a switch here to turn
on the LED light the bug zapper light so there we go
and I guess when that's all and that's when the bug zapping process begins or
you can turn that off and just turn it on to a regular old light so you have
the potential to either just have a regular light or you can have the UV bug
zapper light and it says not to touch this thing or it will zap you seems to
me the switch should be a little farther away from the zapper but okay I'll just
kind of show you where it's at right here and it's real close to the zapper
itself so you got to be careful when you touch this there's a little plastic
around that so anyway it says to let it charge all day
and it says it's potential to have lighting for up to eight hours so that
sounds good to me so there's the bug zapper and then there's the regular old
LED light that's quite a bit brighter it's getting scary yeah yeah yeah
because I'm afraid I might shock my face along with this review of my bug zapping
lantern I also want to take a moment to go back and talk about the zap light
bulb this is one I reviewed not too long ago this is a bug zapping light bulb and
you see here it is full I have to be honest I haven't cleaned this bulb out
since I put it up for the review video so you can see how filthy this is this
is like a summer months worth of bugs in here so this thing is pretty full right
now so we're gonna clean this out I don't know if you can see all the stuff
that's coming out of this right now but it's pretty nasty hopefully I don't eat
any of this it's not coming towards my face so don't worry about me
okay so I've got this up here charging up in direct sunlight and tonight when
it gets dark we'll turn this on and see if it
attracts some bugs and see if it'll zap some mosquitoes
okay so Macker my garage with this bug zapper light and you can see this is
what it looks like fully illuminated I'll actually turn the light off so you
get a better look at it see there that's what it looks like fully illuminated
with a regular light on this is not the bug zapper portion I'll go ahead and
turn the bug zapper on see check that out the instructions clearly say not to
touch this because it will zap you whoo so we got to be very careful not to
touch this too close I just kidding okay so this is the light without me
adjusting the camera or anything this is how much light it puts off as far as the
lantern goes I would not buy this for a lamp for a lantern but just for as an
outdoor sitting light just to have a little bit of a light source and I don't
even know about that either it just doesn't put off that much light
okay so it's pitch dark out here and I can actually see some bugs crawling
around on this thing already have not seen a zappity yet there's like the big
June bug crawl on the outside of it it's still the plastic part of it so I guess
if it actually gets in there it might get zapped so I do see a couple of dead
bugs looks like they're hanger honors there and then of course up here on the
zap lights you can always count on these babies so it's the next day and I have
left this total vision lantern out all night long so the solar Lantern was on
all night I checked on it last night I think about 11 o'clock it had been on
for maybe like two or three hours of that time it was going pretty strong so
we're gonna check it out today and see how many bugs it collected but first
we're gonna check out the as seen on TV zap lights up here to see how they fared
alright so let's look up in here oh my goodness oh my goodness these things are
full of bugs this thing right here is full of bugs
let's check out the other one oh yeah it's full of bugs too okay so the total
vision solar bug zapper lantern has set out for 48 hours now and I can tell you
this you can look at it it has not collected too many bugs I think total
count there might be eight in there so that being said this set out for two
nights in a row and it was charged two days and really bright sunlight so for
48 hours this thing was outside now my little asking on TV zap light bulbs
collected hundreds of bugs so that's a huge difference so the total vision
solar bug zapper lantern did not work well at all my opinion is that it might
attract more bugs than it kills didn't kill a whole lot of bugs I don't know if
it's the effectiveness of the zapper itself have no idea why I wasn't sitting
out here with it and I'm glad I wasn't because I think I probably got ate up by
mosquitoes I let it set in two different locations the first night I let it set
where all the bugs collect at my ass see no TV zapped light bulbs that's set
right underneath of them and it collected a couple of you know a few
bugs that night and then I let it sit out here all night on my front porch
with the bug zapper light on and it didn't really collect too many more bugs
if you want a lander that just puts off a little bit of light and a little bit
of purple light and kills a couple of bugs this is the thing for you but in my
opinion this is not a good item and I would not buy this again and I'll
probably be sticking this in the trash like I said I paid $12.99 for this Alys
I think it should have worked a little bit better than it did and if you see
one of these little lanterns in the store and you're tempted to buy it don't
be tempted in my opinion you can't justify paying $12.99 for this thing I
will point out the good parts about this though the light sensor on it does work
very well as soon as it gets dark the light comes on it charges really well I
don't know that this does sail it all night long but it does stay lit for a
few hours long enough for you to have a little light while you're sitting
outside but the bug zapper doesn't work well enough to protect you from
mosquitoes in my opinion if you want some bug killing effectiveness I'd say
invest in the asking OTE zap light bulbs I think there
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