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Use & Operation
(continued)
5. Insert Items For Heat Treatment
Place items inside the Oven on top of Support Blocks/Support
Net. To
ensure adequate airflow
, items should not touch walls
or ceiling of the Oven. Place wireless thermometer probe inside
deepest (most insulated) location in items being treated. After
that, zip the top cover closed.
Hint:
Always open luggage and
“fluff” items
to ensure air
circulation.
Note:
Think of this process the same way you would
think of drying items in the sun
.
If items are densely packed, they take longer to dry. Better air circulation will heat
your items faster and ensure bed bug killing temperatures. Always use included
thermometer to ensure that temperatures reach the lethal 120
o
F (49
o
C). See step 6.
Included Wireless
Thermometer
6. 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 one, representative location. 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.
Place the wireless thermometer in the deepest (most insulated) part of your
luggage (or item begin treated) and allow the ZappBug Oven
TM
to run for 60
minutes or longer
after the temperature reaches 120
o
F
.
Hint:
We suggest setting the included timer to 6 hours and letting it shut off the
ZappBug Oven automatically.
60 minutes at or above 120
o
F
