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wushumaster
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So I have the piezo lighter hooked up to a rheostat with one mega ohm resistance, then a 30 kilo ohm resistor and then another resistor of 1 mega ohm. I have an oscilloscope- it's really old though. It's max voltage if you set the axis on the bottom of the screen is about 80 Volts. It's hard to discern the erratic and unreliable peaks I'm getting, and I'm not even sure their right? The other way I tried was to just see how far I could hold the wires apart and see a spark shoot through one to other and apparently around 33 kilo ohms per cm is accurate. But I keep getting varying results here too. It ranges from 1 to 2 cm... I even tried hooking the lighter to a 2-1 transformer to see if I put wires from the transformer half way apart than without the transformers, I would have been able to see a spark, but I did not.
Ideas, anything, any help- would all me most wonderful. I'm pretty stuck and I need a quantitative reading...
Thanks so much!
Ideas, anything, any help- would all me most wonderful. I'm pretty stuck and I need a quantitative reading...
Thanks so much!