Any Experience with Coil Lighters?

[64alex]

I am pretty good in lighting up the pipe using matches with wind finding the right spot using walls and trees. However, there is always a point where at least it gets no more fun. I know in these situations Zippo is considered the best choice but I don't really like to deal with a fluid lighter, so I am looking for other options.
I noticed that for cigars there is the Fuego coil lighter Fuego Lighter

which is actually pretty cool. However it is too big and with a recessed coil which makes it unusable for the pipe.
So I was looking for something similar which could be used with a pipe and I found the Pure Spark Pure Spark Lighter

which is marketed toward pipes (even if it looks to other kind of piping) as it has a larger and ticker coil which is sticking outside of the unit so in theory it might work.

Any experience with this or with other coil lighters?

 

[warren]

You're kidding right? A coil lighter for a pipe? Just get yourself a Zippo, Bic or some such. Or, learn to shelter the flame and use a match.

 

[ashdigger]

Haja, is that you?

 

[jpmcwjr]

In your dreams!
Yes, I'd run from any coil type lighter. Or recoil from one if you will.

 

[didimauw]

I guess I'll be the only one playing devil's advocate here, and vote for the coil lighters.
Wait, no I won't.
No no no

 

[tbradsim1]

They don’t work, take it from me. If you’re using an alias Haja, you should have picked another subject. :rofl:

 

[bullet08]

coil lighter as in the lighters that came in older model cars? that would be a neat bar trick.

 

[anantaandroscoggin]

A while back I spent a week or so searching through what was available then in the way of Plasma lighters. There were only a couple that looked like they might be usable as pipe lighters, but I didn't buy any of them.
No idea what improvements and variations on plasma lighters the various manufacturers have come up with since, but perhaps I'll be taking a new look at what's available now.

 

[64alex]

To clarify I am not talking of plasma lighters which don't work. I am talking about heating coil lighters like the lighters of old cars. If you see at my original post there is actually a link to a cigar coil lighter which is pretty impressive and sold by a major cigar reseller. This one does not work however with a pipe as it is too large and recessed. On the other the commonly seen USB coil (not plasma) lighters are too small, weak and recessed to work with a pipe.

The one I was talking about https://www.plazmatic.com/collections/pure-spark-elite might work as it has a bigger and ticker coil and it is not recessed. The only question is if it is strong enough for lighting a pipe. A coil can definitely light up a pipe if strong enough and the cigar model is pretty impressive.

 

[warren]

Buy one and try it out. Obviously, no one here seems to be a fan. Let us know how it works out.

 

[snagstangl]

I have used the cigarette coil lighter in my car to light a cob a few times. It didn't work great but I did get it done.

 

[rfernand]

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

You know, I'm all about the old fashioned matches and a Zippo. But you know what? I gotta play devil's advocate here. This thing might just work.

Now... who's gonna be the guinea pig?

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

In the winter it’s nearly impossible to get any gas fed lighter to work.

At this point I’m confident the only lighter I would really enjoy using year round would be a high power laser.