This could very well be the very BEST, electric swatter on the market. HOWEVER, there is some competition! Enter in to the ring: Elucto. Elucto used to be offered on Amazon, but at the time of this writing, it is no longer available (but you'll likely find it on Ebay). I wrote a review for Elucto where I declared it the best, electric swatter on the market. Now comes the new challenger: The Executioner. I bought this one after reading reviews and watching YouTube videos and felt impressed by it's great performance and build quality, from what I could tell.
Having used many electric swatters, I feel I'm a bit of an expert on these things. Straight off the bat, I can tell you that any swatter that uses single layer bars, no mesh and takes 2AA batteries (as opposed to charging) is automatically the best kind of electric swatter and the only one you want to go with. The Executioner seems to understand this, as well, with how it's described on it's product packaging.
So, which one is the BEST of the BEST? Well, honestly, that's really up to you. If you can get both, I'd say get both. Both of them have their pros and cons with more pros and very little cons. So, let's just see how they stack up in comparison to each other:
The Executioner:
Pros:
- More powerful
- Better build quality
- Easier button to depress
- Humming noise let's you know it's on/working along with a light indicator
- More comfortable in the hands/easier grip
- Better name
Minor cons:
- Slightly smaller grill area
- A little bit heavier
- Bigger handle gets a bit in the way on big, flat surfaces
- Slightly thicker plastic that surrounds the grill
- No wrist strap
- No batteries included (at least not mine)
Elucto:
Pros:
- Slightly bigger grill area
- Powerful enough
- Very light weight
- Smaller handle and thinner plastic around the grill allows for better killing of any size insects on big, flat surfaces
- Wrist strap allows you to keep it on your wrist or hang it up anywhere with ease
- Batteries included
Minor cons:
- A little less powerful
- Build quality is less, but acceptable
- No humming noise, but has a light indicator to let you know it's on/working
- Handle not as comfortable or easier to grip
- Button not as easy to depress, but easy enough
- Weird name (but no worries, there are weirder ones out there for electric swatters)
So, you can see why I like both and if a manufacturer could take the pros of both and get rid of the cons, you'd have the perfect electric swatter! As it stands, these 2 are the best and you really can't go wrong with either one. But having both on hand would allow you to use the best one depending on the situation. For example, if a fly is buzzing in the air you'll want The Executioner to zap them good in the air! If it's a fruit fly on a big, flat wall, however, you'll want to use the Elucto to give very little space for escape! Both will work in each area, but one will be a little better than the other in different situations. The Executioner is good for one zap kills pretty much every time. Elucto will need to fry bigger critters a couple of seconds longer to guarantee death (just hold a fly or whatever down a little longer). And with all of that said, if you can find The Executioner Pro, I believe you will have a slightly better competition against the Elucto. The regular Executioner is great, though.
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Maintain a Bug-Free Home with The Executioner
Simply press the button and swing, once the Fly, Wasp or Bug touches the screen it will be instantly zapped, unlike the 3 layer rackets who often have to try several times to get a zap because of the dead outer layers. Superb build quality, genuine branded Executioner. Ideal for home, office, camping, barbecues and any outdoor activities where flying bugs bother you. The instant zap single layer 1.2mm zinc steel grill made with ABS plastic, not brittle recycled plastic. Positive on and off button with LED warning light and instant off once button released. Very high-quality electronics which will last over 100,000 zaps. Ideal for a gift. Fully CE
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The ultimate hand held fly killerOur most powerful Executioner gives a hefty zap to any bug. We believe that if a product uses batteries then they should be supplied with the item, so we are giving you the batteries and you can start enjoy your new zapper. |
Finest quality single layer racketEach racket is then tested to ensure it meets our high zapping standards you expect. With the finest quality single layer racket for most efficient zapping. The single layer grill is considered to be the best option for a hand held zapper because there is no chance a bug will escape the zap. The old fashion 3 layer zappers need the bug to enter between the layers for zapping to happen....often the bug hits the outside layer and escapes without a zap. 3 Layer rackets are cheap to make but less effective than a genuine Executioner. |
Built to lastSuper tuned electronics that should keep you zapping them bugs for over 100,000 zaps for more reliability and consistent zapping power.... As you get used to the new zapper your eye / hand coordination will follow and you will soon be the hunter, not the victim of bugs! |
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Very effective!
One of the best purchases I’ve ever made, and an absolute joy to use. If you need to get some frustration out (or rid a space of mosquitoes), I highly recommend getting one. Such satisfying zapping sounds and blue sparks whenever the racket makes contact with a mosquito!
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One of the best purchases I’ve ever made, and an absolute joy to use. If you need to get some frustration out (or rid a space of mosquitoes), I highly recommend getting one. Such satisfying zapping sounds and blue sparks whenever the racket makes contact with a mosquito!
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Mark Twain
Works as advertised and a good investment
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 14, 2018
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 14, 2018
The first thing anybody wants to do when they get a new toy is to try it, but avoid overconfidence trying to hit the big flying beasties in their prime, you’ll never catch them before they find an exit. Best close the windows and doors and turn off the lights to draw them to the window light where you can trap them between the glass and the electrified grill!
Holding the racket in different ways until I developed my technique I initially felt that a second button closer to the neck of the racket would have given me greater control for greater hitting power, however the suggestion would only be countered as inconvenient by another with this one size-fits-all device. The answer then seems to be that the entire handle should be capacitative so that the circuit completes whenever picked up, this way it could even be double-gripped by those who prefer.
The handle being the main point of interaction for the user I would highlight the all plastic grip, which would benefit from more aggressive stippling, not sandpaper, but more pronounced as summer makes people sweat more, the exercise trying to catch a flying beasties alone, and those on a picnics may well have oily hands (not to mention that they always seem appear when one is eating), and the last thing anybody wants it a broken TV set because the racket flew out of their hands!
One of the biggest problems with flying beasties is that they choose when to alert you often when the racket is not to hand. My preferred position for uptake is to leave the racket handle side up so that I don’t grab the wrong end of the stick as it were, allowing me to react quicker. An improvement of my own creation for my carpeted surroundings was to affix a small piece of rough (the bit with the hooks) adhesive velcro to the outer rim of the racket’s head, which prevented it from sliding and falling flat onto the floor when resting it upright against a surface.
A more expensive solution would be the strategic placement of neodymium magnets both at the neck and crown of the head, as many common magnetically attracted objects around a house would make for a useful holster, given that two magnets allow for infinite orientation the racket could be positioned more readily accessible with the handle left poking out. However even at scale, the costs would double the racket’s price, so it would be welcome if strategic areas were milled away for customers to add their own (neodymium magnets come in a wide variety of sizes), so long as this didn’t impede the structural integrity of the racket.
I bought the racket based on a decision that dominates most purchases I make these days and that’s hygiene. I’ve purchased an electric racket in the past with a crossed-mesh design and it was impossible to clean, trapping dead flies that smoulder every time the circuit was completed. All I need do with the Executioner is fling any freeloaders off (after juggling them around on the grills to make sure they learned their lesson of course). Therefore the Executioner’s single direction grill was the main reason I purchased this racket, it as easy to wipe clean as you’d imagine, as experience showed.
The other main factors were online reviews of the Executioner, particularly video based ones, where this racket seemed to be the go-to for pranks the world over, meaning that with global reach it was likely a reliable choice. Online reviews here on Amazon too were not far from the truth, as reassuring cracks would result from most frags, but a clean kill was not always the case. With larger foes a single tanning is insufficient, leaving them spinning like a ninja turtle, only to regain their bearings and fly away shortly after, but not before you give them the old roily-poly under the electrified grill, followed by a stomp for good measure.
There is a “Pro” version of this racket, but unlike as you’d imagine, that does not translate into more power, rather it means greater surface area for the electrified grille, but not enough to justify the price if you ask me. I do wish that the company would MAKE THAT CLEAR, as most would be forgiven for thinking it had more power. I can’t help but wonder if they’ve not missed a trick here as the handle is easily long enough to accommodate another pair of AA batteries. I have not opened up my racket (it’s not broken!) and cannot be sure of its internals, but am convinced that it would be a welcome option if users could either increase the power stored in the capacitor, or to extend the life between charges.
I don’t know if there would be legal health and safety issues storing more power, or if it would even make a difference to those flying beasties that have more resilience, but the main thing is that if it does make a significant difference, then to make four battery operation ancillary, possibly with an internal switch for either more power, or higher zapping output, or ignore the option all together. The great thing about the Executioner is it doesn’t need to have bells and whistles, it just does one thing very well, which gave me the confidence to choose it over their competition, but few would not buy a music player because it had a volume button on it.
On the subject of power I checked online to see what kind of batteries would be best for these kinds of rackets as I recall that power would run low quite easily from the one that I had before (but that was likely those rechargeable batteries being old), otherwise you might as well use a badminton racket. I checked to see if higher mAh batteries that photographers use for their DSLR flash-bulb cameras would be best as I imagined that the sudden demand of power would require that kind of battery, but the feedback I received was that those power hungry batteries hand short life cycles and therefore wouldn’t be worth the money compared to standard ones. So I opted for the normal Fujitsu rechargeable batteries (the real Eneloop) and charged them slowly on a PowerX MH-C9000, and they’ve lasted for a whole months use, with daily frags!
CONCLUSION
• I feel confident killing flies with this racket, even stunning those in their prime gives time to finish them off.
• More pronounced stippling would be welcome on the handle as grip can reduce in the heat of summer, or from oily hands for those on a picnic.
• The single direction of the grille makes for simple cleaning, which means that you’ll actually do it, and so used for more than a single summer (the Star Wars lightsaber sounds from the air passing through the grill is a bonus).
• Fujitsu’s standard rechargeable AA batteries easily provide a months life, with daily frags.
• The racket has not smashed itself into pieces, although I’ve been careful as I use it indoors only.
• Heeding the warning sticker’s advice I’ve never shocked myself, but I’d prefer mother nature to sort that out.
• The handle is long enough to accommodate a second set of AA batteries, this for me would be to increase the shocking power, but I don’t know if doubling the capacitor’s ability would lead to one-hit-kills for those wee flying beasties in their prime?
• Adding velcro (the rougher part with hooks) to the outer edge of the head of the racket stopped it from sliding over on carpeted environments, but neodymium magnets installed inside the racket would have been a more aggressive solution to keeping the racket to hand.
• The colour combination is not an eyesore and better than the Union Jack flag version the company believes the UK market sorely craves (it would have been more fun if manufactured from a material that changes colour based on ambient temperature given the season this product is likely used in).
• The simplicity of the design should inspire confidence, it doesn’t need a torch on it!
UPDATE: 30th December, 2018 (7½ months later):
Putting the racket away for the year (which I really could have done back at the end of November) I found that my batteries, which I had swapped out as a matter of course around half way though, so around 3½ months ago, only took around 15minutes to charge, when flat ones should take around an hour or more.
Which means that the battery was not being drained in all that time of inactivity, another good feature.
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Marcello C.
Buoni materiali , facile da usare , Killa gli insetti senza sforzi .... strumento indispensabile
Reviewed in Italy on May 30, 2017
Marcello C.
Reviewed in Italy on May 30, 2017
Tutto a posto , un primo sguardo mi fa percepire una lavorazione molto buona considerando il prezzo € 15.99 ... Materiale plastico ma buono con griglie della racchetta veramente fatte bene , troviamo anche 2 stilo AA per utilizzarla subito , premesso che sul manico di impugnatura troviamo il vano batterie (consiglio un inserimento cauto visto che l'apparecchio funziona grazie ai 2 fili visibili ergo evitare di toccarli) , una volta richiuso il vano siamo già pronti a diventare killer di insetti ...la racchetta è molto sicura perché l'elettricità si attiva tenendo premuto il tasto laterale ove si impugna il manico che definirei comodo , ad avviso funzionamento corretto l'accensione di un diodo rosso ed il sibilo sottile udibile .... l'insetto al contatto della griglia riceve una scarica 1.5 w che a seconda della grandezza o lo ammazza o lo stordisce (spesso le mosche si stordiscono terminando a terra , dare il colpo di grazia 😉) va benissimo anche su api , un buon modo per stordire ed agire senza rischiare , indubbiamente lo strumento funziona molto bene e vi faciliterà la vita non di poco , altro che palette..... , strumento duraturo se trattato bene , ogni tanto con uno straccio non bagnato pulire la parte elettrica che man mano si sporca , preferisco anche avvisare di non considerarla un giocattolo perché se attiva è toccata ....(1.5W non ammazza ma lontano dai bambini)
Personalmente mi sono trovato benissimo ed è il mio strumento preferito per killare in fretta insetti vari , le pile hanno una buona durata, consuma poco ..... 5 stelle meritate e per dubbi scrivetemi sotto la recensione e risponderò con piacere appena possibile ☺
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