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13. Wait Appropriate Time
It is impossible to know the temperature at every location in your items so we have
developed and tested a foolproof strategy to ensure that your heat treatment is
effective.
Bed bugs die at temperatures of 120
o
F or above in less than two minutes.
However, they begin dieing at
temperatures above 113
o
F
. Several studies have
shown that bed bugs die over a range of temperatures and that the higher
the temperature, the less time it takes to kill them. Standard practice for heat
treating is to measure the temperature at representative locations. When the
temperature at this location reaches 120
o
F and is held at 120
o
F (or above) for
one hour,
you can be confident
that any bed bugs in your belongings are dead.
The ZappBug Room comes with an included thermometer base station and
three remote probes, pictured below. Place the wireless thermometer probes in
the deepest (most insulated) part of your luggage (or item begin treated) and
allow the ZappBug Room
TM
to run for 60 minutes or longer
after the temperature
reaches 120
o
F in all three locations
. If you are not present while the unit is running
we advise setting the timers to 8 hours, however this is generally more time than
required for the ZappBug Room to reach 120F and maintain it for one hour.
60 minutes at or above 120
o
F
Follow instructions included with
the thermometer to set up the base
station and three temperature
probes. Please not that batteries in
the probes face the
same direction.
