USB-Rechargeable Glow Cigarette Lighter (2), retail $9.99
Manufactured by (Unknown)
Last updated 06-11-21
The USB-Rechargeable Glow Cigarette Lighter is a small, handheld device designed to do one thing: light cigarettes.
It uses a heated, glowing coil to accomplish this task, and plugs into a USB port on your computer to recharge its internal battery.
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To use the USB-Rechargeable Glow Cigarette Lighter, flip up the lid as you would on a Zippo, and press & release the button (the part lit up in blue that looks like a semicircle with a vertical line running through it).
Place the end of your "siggeret" against the glowing coil, and give your smoke a few tokes.
Once you're all fired up, flip the lid closed and go on your merry way.
The lighter has a timer that automatically neutralises the glow coil after eight seconds.
The diameter of the "hot" part of this lighter is 5.50mm and the diameter of a "100" cigarette is 7.10mm.
So it should also work on kings (85mm) even though they're a bit fatter. Since I do not have a king-sized smoke at my disposal, I am not able to furnish that measurement.
The battery in the USB-Rechargeable Glow Cigarette Lighter is rechargeable, so I don't need to tell you which part to remove, stomp on with old or used bowling shoes, and then rather emphatically tell you not to.
To charge the battery in this lighter, plug the smaller end of the furnished USB charge cable into the female receptacle on the lighter's front edge, and plug the larger end into any free USB port on your Pee-Cee or Mac computer or into the USB receptacle in a "wall wart"-style charger often used for charging cellular telephone handsets.
A series of blue LEDs should now come on; let it cook there until the blue lights turn off.
You may then safely unplug the lighter.
I disassembled the lighter in an attempt to determine the type and capacity of the cell (battery), but it was not labelled at all.
I tested how many "siggerets" can be fired up on a fully-charged battery, and came up with 44 successful "lights" -- this actually surprised me a bit (and in a good way)!
I expect to see this value increase as the battery is conditioned (goes through at least several full charge/discharge cycles).
A second time aruund, I tested how many "siggerets" can be fired up on a fully-charged battery, and came up with 40 successful "lights".
This number is a bit lower primarily because I used the lighter to spark up "rollies" which generally have a ring of paper at the end with the tobacco recessed into it. This lighter (all "glow" lighters in general, actually) tend to do more poorly with "rollies" than they do with "tailor-mades" (name-brand, premanufactured smokes) for this very reason.
This lighter is meant to be used as a cigarette lighter, not as a flashlight meant to be carried around all the time, thrashed, trashed, and abused; so I won't throw it against the wall, stomp on it, try to drown it in the {vulgar slang term for a fudge bunny}bowl or the cistern, run over it, swing it against the concrete floor of a patio, bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoñata (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piñata" too much again - candiosity is usually checked with a scanner-type device on a platform with a large readout, with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; and the cannoñata is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analyses, or inflict upon it punishments that I might inflict upon a flashlight.
So this section of the lighter's web page will be significantly more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.
This lighter excels at lighting snipes without burning your lips or fingers.
This lighter would also make an excellent replacement for a punk used for lighting the fuses on your 4th of July fireworks. And since it does not burn continuously, it would be inherently safer than a punk.
Photograph showing the coil.
Photograph showing the coil, glowing this time.
Spectrographic analysis of the LED in this lighter.
Spectrographic analysis of the LED in this lighter; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 450nm and 470nm to pinpoint emission peak wavelength, which is 463.150nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at glow1.txt
Spectrographic analysis of the glow coil in this lighter.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at glowl2.txt
Brief video on YourTube showing the USB-Rechargeable Glow Cigarette Lighter doing its designated job -- lighting a smoke of course. :-)
Brief video on YourTube showing the USB-Rechargeable Glow Cigarette Lighter going up against some toliet tissue.
TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased on Ebay on 04-21-21 and was received midmorning on 04-24-21.
UPDATE: 00-00-00
PROS:
Lights your smokes even in windy conditions
Rechargeable -- never have to worry about disposable cells
NEUTRAL:
CONS:
Has a bit of a cheap "chintzy" feel to it
Part that surrounds glow coil is plastic, not metal as expected
MANUFACTURER: Unknown
PRODUCT TYPE: Rechargeable "hot coil" cigarette lighter
LAMP TYPE: Blue LED
No. OF LAMPS: 2
BEAM TYPE: N/A
REFLECTOR TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Pushbutton on front on body to engage; close lid to neutralise
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
BEZEL: N/A
BATTERY: Unknown type/capacity rechargeable battery
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: Very light splatter-resistance at maximum
SUBMERSIBLE: ¡¡¡ORINA PATATA USANDO UN CEPILLO DE DIENTES QUE CAYÓ EN EL INODORO, NO!!!
ACCESSORIES: Battery (inbuilt)
SIZE: 80.30mm L x 25.80mm W x 9.70mm thick
WEIGHT: 20g (0.71 oz.) incl. battery
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: Unknown -- but probably an Oriental country
WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated
PRODUCT RATING:
Lighter is not a flashlight, R/C vehicle, or laser -- so no Star rating will be assigned.
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