One of my 8 year old electronic lighter finally died due to my tampering with it in an attempt to make it smaller. I use this type of lighter with my solar kit. It's another back up for fire. I had wired leads to the battery compartment and it was lighting fires using the solar cells until I tried to tear it apart and make it smaller. Despite my never ending stupidity, here is a place in the UK that still has these type lighters. If anyone who has solar cells wants to add fire with it without the magnifying glass here's a place that sells it. So far with my solar cells I can use the following with no batteries in the units running 100% off the sun---purify water(steripen), start fires (electronic lighter),charge all my battery needs (chargers), powers my GPS (Garmin HCX), power my cell phone, radios and mp3 players, and even car fans and the list is getting bigger as I keep tinkering.

Solar cells providing:
Water filtering (Steripen)
navigation (GPS)
light (Recharging batteries)
signal (cell phone)
fire (electronic lighter)
Air condition (fan)
radios and mp3 players
first aid (if electric shock works on snake bites --debatable)

And yes I know it's sun dependent, no sun then nothing. This is a luxury type back up when needed. I can walk to the store, but if I have a car I drive it. Strictly a luxury. Trying to work smarter not harder (that evolution thing).

http://cgi.ebay.com/AAA-BATTERY-FLAMELES...5QQcmdZViewItem

Most definitely......

Tasing? Not likely.
Look closer. There is no capacitor to store voltage.
All this is is an automotive type light bulb without the glass.

Notice that the section nearest the batteries looks like the base of a bulb?
All this does is heat up a filament like your car cigarette lighter. There is
even a picture of the red hot filament on the auction page.

You could certainly give someone a good burn though.

All the same, perhaps a useful addition to a PSK. I would certainly NOT
depend on it though...

Actualy what works real good as a tazer of sorts is using a disposable camera. You wire up the flash mechanism to handle the charge and BZZZT. I think there are some videos floating around on how to do this. It's not the most painful shock, but it definitely wakes you up.

Though admittedly, not as much as accidentally zapping myself with 120v did. Or touching the wrong components when reassembling power supplies (got wrong information by my supervisor)...

I think sometimes I'm that poster child for "Sometimes the purpose of your life is to serve as a warning to others". LOL

Be very careful when working with capacitors from a disposable camera or any other camera strobe. They can store a lot of energy and be very dangerous!

:P

Sorry to derail topic - packrat is right.

Neat lighter though.