Entering The Space Age May 22, 2018, 04:37:51 pm After many years of frustration with butane fireplace lighters, I’ve moved into the Space Age.The old fireplace lighters are often difficult to light. Depressing the butane release while pulling the trigger to get a flame can often be a futile effort. From the cheap $3.00 version to the refillable flex style $35.00 model, I have often been frustrated by their inability to easily light. No more!Enter the Arc Lighter. No Butane. No Flame. Rechargeable on your lap top or your iPhone 12 volt plug...how easy is that?The best thing though...it works. I’ve used it to light my LD Oven pilot light and the stove top burner. Simple, easy and reliable. It works every time. Where have I been that I didn’t know about these marvels earlier? Hmmm...outer space...on another planet? For about $15 on Amazon, I purchased two styles. One with a flexible neck and one very stylish for those romantic candle light dinners while under the stars.As my DW says, “SaaaWeet”.Kent 2 Likes
Re: Entering The Space Age Reply #1 – May 22, 2018, 05:15:30 pm Nice, Kent! Too bad they already sold out but this might do the trick also. A little more than $15, though:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk7MMm4ubuI
Re: Entering The Space Age Reply #2 – May 22, 2018, 11:48:03 pm I like it! What a great idea. I call my butane lighter a "maim and flame", but I still dislike them.Hold it...While in Quartzite, I bought my wife and daughters all stun guns to carry when they run and hike in areas where unwanted visitors may appear. Ya think those things would work to light the BBQ and the oven?Harold
Re: Entering The Space Age Reply #3 – May 23, 2018, 01:54:22 am Harold,Maybe with mine. If you use Greggs, there won’t be much left when you’re done using it. 😖Kent 3 Likes
Re: Entering The Space Age Reply #4 – May 23, 2018, 02:11:31 pm OK, I like the idea, 'cause I've rarely use the oven...hating the butane lighters as much as mentioned above. And the idea of being rechargeable is great. This looks really cool...hot...uh, rad...What I'm not understanding is the "flame" part...I sorta get the electronic spark igniting the gas on my furnace instead of a pilot light, & is that the same concept that lights the burners on top of the range? I don't get lighting the candle. I know this is like so many things that I don't have to understand how it works in order to use it (like a computer), but my curiosity is piqued about how it works, and I know the answers are here. Thx.Lynne
Re: Entering The Space Age Reply #5 – May 23, 2018, 05:06:52 pm Hi Lynne, At least on my Atwood oven, the knob on the far right, the oven knob, has a position called 'pilot on'. Then you open the oven and light the pilot. Might take a minute or so for it to light and stay on. Then you rotate the oven knob to the temperature setting you want, and the pilot you've just lit, lights the main burner on the oven, which will cycle on and off, each time lit by the standing pilot. No sparks involved. When you are done using the oven, turn the knob back to pilot on. It uses very little gas. If you aren't going to use the oven again for a long while, you can turn the knob to off which will extinguish the pilot. At next oven use, you will need to light the pilot again. The gas lighters have a piezo sparker to light the butane. The picture of the candle was to show that in the absence of gas you CAN still light a candle. I guess the spark can light the wick directly. I have an old fireplace lighter that has run out of butane, but the battery still provides a constant spark while the button is pushed. Not rechargeable, but the same result. Still lights my fireplace (natural gas). RonB 1 Likes
Re: Entering The Space Age Reply #6 – May 23, 2018, 07:53:17 pm Hi Lynne,The Arc Lighter has no flame and no spark. It is a continues arc of electricity. It is not a piezo/butane lighter. It’s an electric arc and nothing else. Rechargeable and pretty cool.https://youtu.be/ONfMObOct9AThe electricity arcs between the two posts on the end of the device. Once you press the power button the arc is created. Release the button it turns off. They have a safety guard so kids can’t start it, though it’s probably not a good device to let the kids get their adventurous hands on.It is not recommended to keep the arc active for more than 10 seconds. For campfire ignitions, a small piece of paper in the kindling would suffice. Kent
Re: Entering The Space Age Reply #7 – May 23, 2018, 08:14:14 pm Quote from: Kent Heckethorn - May 23, 2018, 07:53:17 pmThe Arc Lighter has no flame and no spark. It is a continues arc of electricity. It is not a piezo/butane lighter. It’s an electric arc and nothing else. I see. Kinda like a Tesla Coil.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqwj5bACKbU
Re: Entering The Space Age Reply #8 – May 23, 2018, 08:54:11 pm Kinda...but no steel cage is required.
Re: Entering The Space Age Reply #9 – May 24, 2018, 10:28:07 am Pretty cool toy. I might tumble for it.When I was a kid, my dad and brothers and I built a Tesla coil and a Van de Graaff generator in the garage . We created some bodacious long sparks, but you had to hold a metal object like a coat hangar to make the sparks or it would burn your fingers. They were really fun to play with and our friends would come over and we would make big sparks, lots of buzzing sounds, and watch each other get our hair straight out from a build-up of static.The down side was that my dad also stored his cars in the garage and all of the sparks we made over a few months made so much ozone that it destroyed the window gaskets in his 1946 Cadillac convertible (which he had bought for my mom one year after he returned from WW2).Unintended consequences. Kent, be careful how much you play with that thing in your beloved Lazy Daze.Harold 2 Likes
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