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CIGERETTE LIGHTER/FLASHLIGHT

Cigerette Lighter / Flashlight, retail $~2.00
Manufactured by (Unknown)
Last updated 03-21-12

This is a refillable butane "siggeret" lighter with a twist: a built-in LED flashlight.

It comes in a two-toned plastic body who's body color matches its LED color. One part of the body is opaque; the other is transparent. It has a piezoelectric ignitor, so you never have to worry about wearing out a flint.

The batteries can be changed, and it can be refilled with butane from an aerosol bomb.

SIZE

This lighter comes ready to use as soon as you purchase it.

Firmly depress and hold down the large semicircular button on the top of the unit until you hear a loud click (this is also accompanied by a very noticeable tactile sensation) to light the lighter and produce a flame. Release this button to extinguish the lighter.

To use the flashlight, turn the lighter so the bottom of the unit faces away from you. Depress & hold down the button on the edge of the product toward its bottom. Release the button to turn the LED back off.

To change the batteries, unscrew & remove the phillips screw from the bottom of the unit with a small phillips screwdriver (the #0 with a 2.0mm shaft diameter from my set of jeweller's screwdrivers did the job here).
Set the small screw where you won't lose it - I already lost the one from my green unit so I'm SOL.

Gently pull out & remove the bottom of the unit - the LED module should now be easy to see (see photograph at top of next section).

Remove the three used AG3 button cells from the compartment, and recycle or dispose of them as you fit.

Install three new AG3 button cells in the compartment, orienting them so their button-ends (-) negatives face the LED.

Slide the module back in the vacuum's body -er - the lighter's body, orienting it so the LED faces toward the bottom of the lighter and the metal strap faces outward.

Place the bottom of the lighter back on (place the switch button back in the opening for it from the inner surface if it fell out), and insert & tighten that tiny little screw you removed earlier.

(Update 12-03-06): I found the screw, but the threads stripped when I attempted to reassemble the lighter. It *DID* go back together, but I do not believe that it is secure at all.

To refill this lighter with butane, hold the lighter upside-down, and insert the nozzle of the butane canister into the hole provided for it. Use one of the nozzle tip adapters provided with the butane if the nozzle does not fit. Gently pump the canister up and down several times, observing the fill level by looking at the transparent fuel tank of the lighter, and pull off the butane canister when the tank is nearly full. It is perfectly normal for a small amount of butane to spray back from the valve on the lighter when you pump the canister and when you remove the canister when the lighter is full.

I haven't refuled a butane "siggeret" "lyter" in many years, so I'm kinda flying by the seat of my pants here.

Photograph of the LED & batteries module from inside the lighter.

This product is meant to be used as a lighter with a flashlight meant for occasional use, not as a flashlight meant to be used frequently, carried around, thrashed, and abused, so I won't try to drown it in the toilet tank, bash it against a steel rod or against the concrete floor of a patio, let my housemate's citty kats

go to the litterbox on it, run over it with a 450lb Celebrity motorised wheelchair, or perform other indecencies on it that a regular flashlight might have to have performed on it. So this section of the web page will be significantly more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight that was born to be a flashlight.

As an emergency flashlight (such as for looking for dropped articles in a movie theatre or searching for that deodourent cap that rolled behind the toilet), this product will serve that purpose quite well.

Beam photograph (red) on the test target at 12".
Measures 5,630mcd on a Meterman LM631 light meter.

Beam photograph (green) on the test target at 12".
Measures 26,600mcd on a Meterman LM631 light meter.

Beam photograph (blue) on the test target at 12".
Measures 4,925mcd on a Meterman LM631 light meter.

Spectrographic analysis of the red LED in this lighter.

Same as above; newer spectrometer software & settings used.

Spectrographic analysis of the green LED in this lighter.

Spectrographic analysis of the blue LED in this lighter.

Same as above; newer spectrometer software & settings used.

Spectrographic analysis of the blue LED in this lighter; yet newer spectrometer software & settings used.

Spectrographic analysis of the blue LED in this lighter; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 450nm and 500nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, whic is 474.899nm.

Spectrographic analysis of fluorescence of the body of the red lighter when irradiated with the Wicked Lasers Spyder 3 Arctic 445nm 1W Blue Diode Laser.

USB2000 Spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.

ProMetric analysis

Beam cross-sectional analysis (red LED version).

ProMetric analysis

Beam cross-sectional analysis (blue LED version).

Images made using the ProMetric System by Radiant Imaging.

TEST NOTES:
Test units were purchased at a dollar store in Seattle on 05-17-06; the yellow and orange ones were lost in a move I made on 05-26-06.

UPDATE: 05-29-11
The blue LED one has failed -- the plunger (and subsequently, the piezoelectric ignitor) appears to be "jammed" and no longer "clicks" to generate a spark; thus the lighter no longer lights. Therefore, that dreadful "

" icon will be appended to its listings on this website.

PROS:
Fairly unique
Refillable lighter

CONS:
Battery changing appears to be a bit "fiddly"

MANUFACTURER: Unknown
PRODUCT TYPE: "Siggeret" lighter w/LED flashlight
LAMP TYPE: 5mm LED
No. OF LAMPS: 1
BEAM TYPE: Varies, depending on LED color
SWITCH TYPE: Momentary pushbutton on/off on side of product
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
BEZEL: Plastic; LED recessed into hosel for it
BATTERY: 3xAG3 button cells
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND PEE-RESISTANT: Light splash-resistant at maximum
SUBMERSIBLE: NO WAY HOZAY!!!
ACCESSORIES: 3xAG3 cells
WARRANTY: Not stated

PRODUCT RATING:

Cigerette Lighter / Flashlight *

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