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Tesla Coil ZIPPO lighter . . . Coming Soon!

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101111
Tue Jun 29 2010, 10:00PM
101111 Registered Member #575 Joined: Sun Mar 11 2007, 04:00AM
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 		Make a contest of it and I am certainly in!
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803
Tue Jul 06 2010, 10:30PM
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 		How about using a electrostatic battery connected to a cap? You know, the battey that cas been powering those bells for 200 years? Call it, " The never ending lighter"!!amazed Only 19.99, order know and save on shipping!


Update: Charge caps in parellel, and discharge in series.
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GhostNull
Wed Jul 07 2010, 09:11AM
GhostNull Registered Member #2648 Joined: Sun Jan 24 2010, 12:45PM
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803 wrote ...

Charge caps in parellel, and discharge in series.
Sounds like a voltage multiplier
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Hei
Wed Jul 07 2010, 01:14PM
Hei Registered Member #2808 Joined: Sat Apr 17 2010, 03:25AM
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 		I've manage to get some small flyback transformer, perhaps it's suitable for this project.
1278508393 2808 FT91586 1

not very impressive arc, but still hot enough to light up a piece of paper i think..

1278508393 2808 FT91586 2
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tritium
Wed Jul 07 2010, 03:43PM
tritium Registered Member #2591 Joined: Fri Jan 01 2010, 11:58AM
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 		use a lithium polymer battery, these can deliver amps at voltage of 3,6 volt/cell and are rechargeable.
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Z28Fistergod
Wed Jul 07 2010, 04:12PM
Z28Fistergod Registered Member #2040 Joined: Fri Mar 20 2009, 10:13PM
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radiotech wrote ...

Accessory tips could be marketed that converts the lighter into defibulator to be used by heavy smokers with chronic hear disease.

I like this! Problem and solution all in one. It's like an episode of your favorite sitcom.
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IntraWinding
Wed Jul 07 2010, 04:24PM
IntraWinding Registered Member #2261 Joined: Mon Aug 03 2009, 01:19AM
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 		Stuff a Taser in there and you might have a legal excuse for carrying one! The "Zippo" defence! wink
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UltraMagnus
Wed Jul 07 2010, 05:00PM
UltraMagnus Registered Member #2875 Joined: Mon May 24 2010, 08:28AM
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IntraWinding wrote ...

Stuff a Taser in there and you might have a legal excuse for carrying one! The "Zippo" defence! wink

IIRC, stun guns (ie, tasers without the spikes that shoot out and impale people) are just SMPSs connected to a 9v battery.
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IntraWinding
Wed Jul 07 2010, 06:26PM
IntraWinding Registered Member #2261 Joined: Mon Aug 03 2009, 01:19AM
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UltraMagnus wrote ...

IntraWinding wrote ...

Stuff a Taser in there and you might have a legal excuse for carrying one! The "Zippo" defence! wink

IIRC, stun guns (ie, tasers without the spikes that shoot out and impale people) are just SMPSs connected to a 9v battery.

Yes, I was thinking of the hand held 'cattle prod' variety of Taser. You'd have some difficulty explaining why your cigarette lighter needs a range of 10 feet!

(Tasers charge a capacitor to high voltage using a smps similar to a camera flash gun circuit, and discharge it rapidly via a spark gap into the primary of a transformer, from what I've read).
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doctor electrons
Tue Jul 13 2010, 08:38PM
doctor electrons Registered Member #2390 Joined: Sat Sept 26 2009, 02:04PM
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 		If instead of a wick there was an insulated (from the rest of the lighter) metal ring about the diameter
of a cigarette filter that just formed corona around that ring it would be awesome!!! They make little chargers for the iphone
to refill your battery when you aren't near a normal charger, i had one that stopped working. When i opened it there was a usb
charging circuit and a lithium ion battery pack about the size of the main body of a zippo, AND about half as thick! Hmmmm..
I bet one of the guys from the smallest coil forum is fiendishly constructing one of these right now cheesey
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