Customer Comments (4)
An innovative and useful bit of additional kit – it has allowed me to trap at a number of sites in New Zealand I couldn’t have taken an MV & generator to including the top of a tower in the canopy in the Pureora Forest and on native high altitude forest near Mount Cook. I’m taking it on ferry to Stewart Island tomorrow. - Sean Clancy, Kent
Last year I got an 8Ah Lithium battery and associated 15W Actinic bulb and electronics and I used these with a white sheet very successfully. However I am now wanting to run my equipment all night so have purchased two of the LED units from ALS which will give me 18 hours on my 8Ah lithium battery. - Peter, Suffolk
I used this trap on a trip to Croatia in mid-April. It is very light and easy to carry fully erected with one hand and runs on an 8AH battery, small enough to hold in one hand. The trap folds flat very neatly for transport. The whole unit is very robust. The airport handlers managed to break a large glass jar, even though packed in a hard suitcase, but the LED trap and the two LEDs were not affected. Catches were a bit disappointing but I was trapping (with permits) up to 3500 feet up in the Biokova National Park on cool clear nights where the temperature dropped to 40F (4C). The weather was generally disappointing and everything was late. I didn’t have an actinic trap for comparison but I think this LED trap is just as good and it will be my trap of choice when travelling by plane. - Adrian Spalding, Cornwall
On the windswept Rathlin Island off Northern Ireland, our catches are very small compared with most places whichever type of trap we use! However, since converting our old 6W actinic trap to the pair of LED lights, we have had consistently better results. The best night with the LEDs was about 330 moths of 57 species, which is good for us! - Ric Else