I've had good results lighting things with the wire borrowed from the inside
of a hair-dryer.  A little experimentation with the current consumption will
get it hot enough to light things, while not burning it out.  I used it for
homebrew rocket ignitors and remote gasoline ignition for burning the
junk-pile.

All you need is any cheap hair-dryer, which will provide enough wire for
hundreds of ignitors.  I don't remember the current consumption off-hand,
but it was powered from a 6v lantern battery, with the resistance set by the
length of the hair-dryer wire.

Hope that helps!

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Robert B.
email:  robertb@nerdulator.net
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Falcon Wireless Tech Support - KF4HAZ"
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To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: Fire Starters and PICs


> If you were to use hydrogen as fuel,
> it would produce water vapor rather than smoke (environmentally friendly).
> Hydrogen can be ignited by passing it over porous platinum,
> the platinum acts as a catalyst causing the hydrogen to combine with
avail9ble oxygen to "burn" forming heat, light and water vapor.
>
> If you must stick with oil, try using an ignition filament from a kerosene
heater.
> They are cheap, readily available, low voltage, draw may be as much as 1
amp but a good power transistor should handle the load.
>
> KF4HAZ - Lonnie
>
> ----- From: "Ian Hooper" <noisy@
>
> > Here's a rather strange one:  I've had the clever notion that I'd like
to
> > operate my garden lights by means of a PIC-based timer. The catch is
that I
> > wish to use oil lamps, not the usual 12V bulbs. My dillema occurs in
trying
> > to devise a method of electronic ignition for an oil lamp; so far my
> > experiments have produced unimpressive results by using a simple spark
> > ignitor. Has anyone else toyed with such a system and have any ideas of
what
> > I might try to safely, and consitently light an oil lantern?
> >
> > thnx
> >
> > ian
>
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