Customer Reviews

Lentek PR30 Ultrasonic Pest Repeller (3-Pack)

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... I've had the devices operational for about two weeks now and hadn't seen anything, so was quite happy, thinking my Mickey problem was solved.

Then as I was, just now, leaving my kitchen, the little bugger just bolted under my bookshelves.

*sigh*

I over-bought the product too so that every room has two of them facing in opposite directions as recommended for bouncing the sonic sound off the walls.

Apparently this product does NOT work on mice... at all.

What a waste of money.

Don't fall for the false advertising. Lentek got sued by the FTC for making false claims. http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2002/08/lentek.htm

After two weeks I have seen a dramtic improvement with our bug problem. Living in a rural area when we turned on our lights at night we would attract every bug for miles. Even with brand new screens moths managed to find a way in and annoy me with thier lamp shade banging.

Here in the middle of summer when black flies, deer flies and mosiqutoes cause relentless problems, we relax easily. The dogs, and cats are uneffected and the rest of us are pleased. I bought one for every room and have three for the great room. I do make a point of moving them once a week but I can't say enough about how little work it is now that the house is bug free.

My favorite part is the fact that the spiders are now gone. On any given day I could walk through the house and count well over 30 spiders happily living with me, representing 14 different types. Poison, squishing, flushing, drowning, vacuming never did anything except make room for more. Now they are gone! No more surprises of where they will turn up or cob webs.

Worked in the pest control industry for 16 years, till recently. We used to find cockroaches living in such devices all the time (it's usually nice toasty warm in there). Sanitation, exclusion, and very careful application of pesticides is what you need.

Rodents are often repelled for a brief time, but quickly adapt (adapting to environmental conditions is one of the things rats do best). Again, count on sanitation, exclusion, and traps; try to avoid baits because you'd rather know where the little s.o.b. died (i.e. in a trap, rather than in a wall somewhere).

this seemed to work initially, but after about a month (and, not so coincidentally, when it started to get cold outside) i was finding mouse droppings less than a foot away from the device!
i spoke with a veterinarian that specializes in digusting rodents (rats, mice, guinea pigs, gerbils) and she said that it's just like living next to the train tracks - it emits an annoying sound, but eventually the little suckers get used to it.

I suggested my mother try these after years of problems with monster waterbugs in her suburban Philadelphia town house. With her living in an urban area blocks away from a river she has tried everything to rid her house of these disgusting creatures. Exterminators are only a temporary fix due to the fact that the waterbugs just leave and go to the adjoining house next door and then come back when the spray wears off. The roach traps get a few of them but didn't stop them from being in the bathroom and kitchen and scattering when she would turn the light on. The insect problems are bad this year due to our mild winter and when she saw them appearing in her bedroom something had to be done.

She installed these Lantek Pest Repellers a week ago and after encountering waterbugs in the spring/summer daily for years she has not seen one in her house since the day she plugged them in. Her home is very small (about 900 sq. feet) and she bought 2 (3 packs) so she was sure to have enough coverage. Although it does not seem to effect the tiny ants from coming in under the kitchen back door (where she has 2 plugged in) she would much rather have ants to deal with than the 2inch Philadelphia waterbugs. Although the neighbors probably aren't to happy right now because all of the critters probably ran to their house. The true test will be the next time we have a drought when the problem is usually the worst. That is when they come into the homes in mass numbers seeking water. But so far so good. I am going to order some myself to see if it helps with the Yellow Sac spiders and the huge numbers of bats that we have in our neighborhood that sometimes get into the homes. I do recommend these, they do work on certain insects but from what I have seen, not ants. The repellers are much smaller than what they appear to be in the photo (about 2x3 inches) which is a plus because we have a 1920 home with baseboard sockets and don't have to worry about them being too large to fit into the receptacle.

I said last year that this product worked great on ants. I had exhausted all other means of combatting the ants, and this product finally did it. Well..., it might have been a coincidence. One of the last measures that I took might have had a delayed effect, because this summer the ants came back and ignored the ultrasonic repellers!

Either they don't work on ants, or they have a lifespan of less than a year. ;-)

I'm sorry I purchased this product. The FTC is suing them for false claims, and now the Lentek website itself no longer claims that the product will protect against spiders or roaches. As I purchased the product EXACTLY for that purpose, it is no wonder that I have not had any improvement in my pest problems. Please do some online research before buying this!

Don't waste your money.
The mice are partying in our kitchen beneath this product. Don't waste your money.

We usually have an ant problem every summer. This summer, we were fighting a losing battle, with spraying inside and outside the house, ant traps, etc. Every day, coming home from work, we would find an ant trail somewhere in the kitchen or living room. We bought these Lentek Pest Repellers as a last resort, and were pretty skeptical. However, just one day after plugging them in (we used all 3 units in the kitchen at first), the ants totally disappeared from inside the house. They are still plentiful outside the house, but have stayed off the inside for over 3 weeks now. We have now reduced it to just one unit per room, and the ants have not come back.

Spiders are another issue though. We found daddy-long-legs hanging from the unit the first day we installed them. However, they may have been confused!??? After getting rid of those spiders, we have not seen anymore. We are not sure what the long-term effect on spiders is, but we are totally convinced they work on ants.