Today lets take a look at (and into) a scary Russian (or Soviet) electric device. Let's figure out its purpose and how does it work. You can support me on Patreon: / diodegonewild
@@psycronizer but that kind of coils do not ignite the gas of your kitchen maybe inclosed in an opportune box it can produce some amount of methan useful to cooking something
In UK my grandma (when I was a little kid) had a gas cooker that had a 'wand' connected to the cooker via a rubber pipe. You would turn the wand on, click it and it let out a little flame that you would light the cooker with. Back then if you lived close to a colliery (which she did) you would be burning coal gas which was highly toxic, but on a possitive note, you got free coal if a family member worked at the colliery and your electricity was wired in from the colliery so you got super cheap electricity and basically free heating. The gas meter was a clock style that you put 50p into for a set amount of m3 of gas :D creepy old stuff lol
It's been some 40+ years since I last saw these gas igniters in use. They were very common in kitchens around here and were faster and more reliable than matches. I even repaired a few.
I would like to have one because igniter built-in my gas stove is not working. Igniting gas with skewer sticks is quite dangerous and it's taking much time because I have to take a match, ignite it, then ignite a stick, and then with a stick I ignite gas.
Hey ! Thank you about this nice russian translation. ;) Anyway, I do think it s a gas detector because you can see a big flash when the atmosphere is explosive. You can also communicate by Morse code broadcasting anything all over the planet. Lol
I think it's quite a simple and ingenious device, since the coil acts as a resistor and inductor to limit the current, as a solenoid to pull the plunger in and it also creates a high voltage for the arc, even though I’m not sure this last part helps much considering it runs on mains
1:36 It says "Kashinsky Zavod Elektroapparaturi (Kashinsky Factory for Electric Products) - Zajigalka Elektricheskaya (Electric Lighter)" ... These used instead of matches, hence why the flex is very long and also the reason there's a hook on top. Here in Bulgaria we still use one; granted new stoves have built in igniters, but we are still using one on an classic 80's Romanian stove - moms very happy with it still - and it still works!
We had one too, made at ElectroMures, Romania. Very similar to this one, similar format only the protection was made of baquelite instead of sheet metal and the hook was a loop of wire passing through the holes where the white stick holding the switch in place was passing. Worked well for many years and in the last years of Ceausescu was very useful since often could not buy matches to light up the stove (it is true that gas was also scarce so a lot of time we had nothing to lit anyway)
Hi Danik! Here in italy too, when I was young and still could not touch the stove (70's) I remember that the lighting of the fires was done through a device similar to what you showed: this is elegant and austere like an old sennheiser 440 microphone, while mine seemed a suppository with a metal tip: it was the ancestor of the piezoelectric lighter, which forced you to have a power outlet near the kitchens that at the time did not need it ..... then years later the kitchens came out with the built-in ignition and all autonomous means of lighting the stove, from matches to gas lighters of all types, have practically disappeared
@@NerdyNEET Drop it, and the metal top can be dented or bent in such a way, that it contacts the live metal parts. Also, if some well intentioned fixer-upper replaces the plastic 'screw' thing with a metal one (maybe because someone melted it in the flame, or because it was dropped and broken) the metal part will become live. Now, normally no one would touch the metal part. But it is very plausible that someone would touch a metal gas stove, while igniting the gas, and while touching the metal part to the metal bits of the stove. Then you will get shocked by the stove (assuming it's a gas stove, or an ungrounded electric one)
Actually, I remember even better built Soviet ones from the 80's, when I was a kid. The only problem with them was spark-wearing, so we had to clean the spark gap contact periodically. And yes, I had a sparkover into the gas ring body once, which tripped the circuit breaker.
In Russia they use IT style electrical grid. Which means that no wire of network is grounded. So if they touch any single wire, nothing happens. So in Russian view this was absolutely OK. I am not sure if these devices were to be imported officially into countries with TN-C or TN-S grids.
@@StackOverflow80, Soviet gas stoves usually were connected to the gas grid via rigid metal pipes without dielectric insets and thus behaved like they were grounded. And TN-C or TN-C-S was/is quite a usual thing here.
My grandmother used to have a similar loud gas lighter. She also had a fridge with the word “CAPATOB” written on it and she said that it was pronounced “Saratov”.
That's crazy compared to the single cell 1.5V powered high voltage DC-DC converter jobs used since the 1980's over here in the UK. As a child I do remember my grandmas gas cooker in the 1970's (which was probably from the 1950's) - it had a flexible cable and lance that sat in a holder to the side. It never did anything. I was told it was for lighting the hobs instead of using matches but had stopped working years ago. My intrigue made me strip it and clean all the years off grease from it. Set light to it with a match and sure enough it was working again. It was basically a gas pilot light permanently burning!
I've seen those 'always on' pilot things too! But in my case, it was one pilot light in the middle of the 4 burner stove. From the pilot lights, there were 4 short pipes going to each burner, like an X-shape. The gas from one of the burners would travel through the pipe quickly, and then be ignited by the pilot light. Seems awfully wasteful to just leave the pilot light running all the time.
LOL, these igniters indeed made interference for surrounding radios and TVs when operated. But who cares about stove igniter EMI noise when government pour a ton of money into industrial scale RF noise generators used to suppress "enemy radio stations" like Voice of America and Radio Free Europe around country. Exactly that happened in USSR.
You can call me crazy but I've used one until recently. When I bought my gas stove it didn't have any electric igniters (the brand is Faure, a really good french brand but I bought their cheapest model) so all I could do is dig up one of these from my pile of old electric stuff. The trick was to not touch the stove because it would trigger ground protection. Last week it failed, it already pretty old and the metal contacts were completely gone so I switched to a good old barbecue lighter and it's much better :)
@Luca Capelli Yes the Scottish are the inventors of all time and adventurers - withou them you wouldnt have the tv , tar macadam , the steam engine ,. light bulbs , America etc etc etc lol
We had very similar gas stove ignition devices in my childhood and school years. First one lasted 10 years then burned out. Second one lived until we got new stove with built-in igniter.
In Soviet era Czechs as all other nations under Kremlin's boot was forced to learn Russian to survive. Older generation still understand Russian and many can talk fairly well too.
NEY Industries Often simplicity lasts longer than complex over designed products. Look at the simple knife or fork, they just work for centurys without the need to change the simple design. I happen to dislike computers being added to almost everything for no good reason, adding complexity that will fail. Just my opinion :-)
NEY Industries Ooow you are so evil ha ha :-D All the user programmable micro controllers are a nuisance as well, when it dies the code dies with it :-(. Often impossible to get the code. Give me an external rom/flash or whatever. Yes i'm an old git, and i moan a lot lol.
Another reason why the adapter is dodgy. Any adapter that allows connecting the ungrounded plug to a grounded outlet is illegal in Finland. Use of ungrounded equipment near grounded ones is dangerous. Also in Finland sockets in kitchens have been grounded at least since 1957.
I immediatly thought this has to be a gas lighter :-) But i never saw one running on mains voltage. My grandma used one for her stove, running just on battery - for a long time.
Ronnie Pirtle Jr Probably less scary than carbon monoxide poisoning due to lacking regulations. Lots of people still die nowadays due to shitty old stoves in closed rooms with no ventilation.
My grandma had it, the same exact model, but with red handle, not black and black button not red. She had a soviet stove too. She had it until 2012 when we inherited her house and made a massive refurbishment. I didn't threw it away, I till have it somewhere, I actually played with it upstairs and I hear mom shouting "WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING STOP NOW OR I'LL BRAKE IT" turns out it was creating huge interference at mains and her speakers she had in living room were crackling extremely loudly and startled her badly like 5 times XDXDXD LMAO Should do it sometimes soon again just to mess with her lol
У меня тоже такая зажигалка. Надёжная как я не знаю что. Там абсолютно нечему ломаться. Но теперь умудряются делать Так что я её уже три раза справлял в разных местах. 1 - Отошёл контакт. 2 - Оборвался проводок который идёт к единственной Если так можно выразиться электронной детали обмотке. 3 - Играюсь уже неделю Оказалось что разрыв теперь в самой обмотке. Там проводок как волосинка. Радует что хоть разобрался теперь думаю как это всё собрать и когда на это найти время. Нет, конечно можно купить очередную новую Но у меня уже столько разных было... зарабатываешь копейки чтобы отдавать их на мусор...
But in the late 80s, I bought a Piezoelectric Gas Igniter made by Kharkovski Zavod. Very good ergonomic shape and beautiful design with two large Piezoelectric elements with the size of a cigarette filter. Still working
It sounds like it's buzzing at 50Hz (or 100Hz?). Presumably the spark and coil tend towards this frequency, but I would have to think about the actual mechanism behind it. I guess, that around the 0V part of the cycle, the coil has no energy so the contact is made, with no effect. As the voltage builds, the coil starts to energise and create the spark. Maybe they worked out the resonant frequency of the assembly so that it would tend to re-make around the zero point again. Or maybe they didn't worry about that and let it run at whatever frequency it liked.
Is that a camera flash that uses mains power on the right at the end of the video? I have a similar one that is portable. It has a battery compartment with a shoulder strap, 4 D-cell batteries go in and it has a socket similar to mains. Would love to see more '80s soviet camera tech here.
seems weird that they made a mains powered electrical one. when I was a kid we had a gas stove lighter which was basically the same size and shape but it was a piezo sparker, it had a big button you squeezed and it made a spark at the end
It's easier for him to learn russian, because czech language is a lot similar to russain. The main difference is that czech language uses the latin alphabet.
This older version looks better made than the new one Big Clive showed - just as scary though. This is like an old style mains 'buzzer', but with less insulation/more danger. Haha.
@@DiodeGoneWild Yeah, the one Clive reviewed literally had a nail on it for the arcing rod. It's near identical but it somehow has a more old school soviet look to it than this thing
Its a gas stove lighter. My grandmom used it in early '90s, i was small boy. Everyone had gas stove in their apartment. It was big house with like 100 apartments, gas was built-in into house. Gas lines went to each apartment, from floor 0 to 5. So 100 apartments and each apartment had one gas stove, so 100 gas stoves. Gas tanks were outside, near the house and barricaded with the fence. Some people burned gas stoves just to get some more warmth in the apartment. Besides the central heating system which used(s) radiators. So if something terrible would happen, gas leak or something and somebody lights a match then half or whole building would go. It was a dangerous thing. After 95 or so the gas and all the gas lines were removed completely. Because this system was too old and dangerous.
my great grandfather used to make these out of wood and sell them. i have some of them that are assembled and others that aren’t, one is fully assembled and probably working but i’m a bit scared to plug it in (i’ll probably do that some day in series with an incandescent lamp) and there’s also one that has two wires coming out of it meant to short them on the metal surface of the stove
We had one when I was a child, these were quite popular in former CAER. I struggled to understand the principle of operation but failed. I was only 10 and never got a shock from it. Can't say modern devices feel much more safe these days Maybe you could explain the secrets/advantages of protected earth versus old style where earth was missing (I feel having access to either ground or neutral and earth is equally dangerous)
Podobný zapalovač měla každá druhá domácnost v 70 letech i v ČSSR. Neměl tlačítko a spouštěl se jen tím, že se otočil vrchní částí dolů. :-) Vsadím se, že kdybych prohledal byt rodičů, ještě ho někde najdu! :-) Pamatuji si ho jak z domu, tak i od obou babiček...
And that's why modern electronic ignitions use a capacitive discharge HV spark.. so they're not using 80 WATTS just to light a burner Tho i was fixing a gas furnace the other day and the igniter confused me... it looked like an electronic ignition but there was no little HV transformer. So I tested the heat and the igniter was just a filament that gets red-hot. Really took a while to light the burner.... guess that's fine for a residential furnace but I don't like it.
50 years ago these exact devices were used in Israel to ignite the gas stoves like what you did in the video. the old devices did not have the metal cover around the spark device. just open 240VAC so the housewives had to be careful. possibly imported from Russia or maybe even locally designed.
Nice. They considered it so simple, it does not have a circuit plan. I like Russian made things of the age, just got a Elektronika clock with separate VFD tubes. By the way, this igniter is a unusual application of: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagnerscher_Hammer
it works very well, better thand the stove's igniter!! but then again it did have a larger arc compared to modern stove igniter's.. cool devise even if it is unsafe by today's standards!!! : )
Pamatuji se, matka to přivezla z Moskvy a hodně let jsme to používali. Jednou jsem to nechal spuštěné delší dobu a shořela cívka. Převinul jsem to a použil menší počet závitů. Létaly v tom obrovské jiskry :D Minimálně 2x se nám to podařilo utopit ve dřezu a po vysušení zapalovač fungoval dál. Po letech se plasty rozpadly, tak jsme to vyhodili.
It is an old morse code transmitter. For people comunicate with the neighbours in a more private way, and not switch on and off the house lgihts. The battery mobile version were the flashlights. After that we started to use phones and nowadays we use mobile phones. Lol
At first I thought it an insect killer. Gas igniter is more plausible.
“Thank heavens for little coils!”
markiangooley
With 80w it would probably turn the insects into plasma state in the process xD
@ markiangooley i confirm you that it is a gas igniter: when i was young i too have one o f them, not the same product but a similar one
Yup., gas igniter. We had also similar gas igniters in 80s or 90s I belive... :)
I can make you a little coil.....maybe one or two turns at most...it's brown, a bit soggy, and will attract flies....
@@psycronizer but that kind of coils do not ignite the gas of your kitchen maybe inclosed in an opportune box it can produce some amount of methan useful to cooking something
In UK my grandma (when I was a little kid) had a gas cooker that had a 'wand' connected to the cooker via a rubber pipe. You would turn the wand on, click it and it let out a little flame that you would light the cooker with. Back then if you lived close to a colliery (which she did) you would be burning coal gas which was highly toxic, but on a possitive note, you got free coal if a family member worked at the colliery and your electricity was wired in from the colliery so you got super cheap electricity and basically free heating. The gas meter was a clock style that you put 50p into for a set amount of m3 of gas :D creepy old stuff lol
It's been some 40+ years since I last saw these gas igniters in use. They were very common in kitchens around here and were faster and more reliable than matches. I even repaired a few.
@DeepWaterBlack Portugal :-)
I would like to have one because igniter built-in my gas stove is not working. Igniting gas with skewer sticks is quite dangerous and it's taking much time because I have to take a match, ignite it, then ignite a stick, and then with a stick I ignite gas.
Or even better: tie a match to a skewer stick and then ignite a match and then gas.
My grandma had those. Her favorite way to light her gas stove.
My parents used to use a device like this, when I was little. I am from Romania btw.
sa stii. imi aduc si eu aminte
Salut 😁
Corect , am folosit si eu romanesc. Ce ma amuză uneori străinii ăștia 😂.
had one...
I still have one at home.
1:14 I thought it would erase his memory
Well it could actually. You just need to get two of these, apply and operate them simultaneously on your frontal left and right lobes.
RmFrZQ bruh xd
Wear your 🕶️
The device is not grounded because in Russia you are grounded
bruh xd
some poor village houses really might not have a floor. It was just ground.
In soviet russia device grounds you
looks like a stove lighter
It is one
Hey ! Thank you about this nice russian translation. ;)
Anyway, I do think it s a gas detector because you can see a big flash when the atmosphere is explosive.
You can also communicate by Morse code broadcasting anything all over the planet. Lol
Yes, I'm sure it would produce more than enough electrical interference to steam more than its fair share of HAM radio operators! 😆
@@scratchpad7954 They solved the problem in the Russian way, if you use it for more than 5 seconds it self destructs :)
I think it's quite a simple and ingenious device, since the coil acts as a resistor and inductor to limit the current, as a solenoid to pull the plunger in and it also creates a high voltage for the arc, even though I’m not sure this last part helps much considering it runs on mains
1:36 It says "Kashinsky Zavod Elektroapparaturi (Kashinsky Factory for Electric Products) - Zajigalka Elektricheskaya (Electric Lighter)"
... These used instead of matches, hence why the flex is very long and also the reason there's a hook on top. Here in Bulgaria we still use one; granted new stoves have built in igniters, but we are still using one on an classic 80's Romanian stove - moms very happy with it still - and it still works!
Here in Italy too, in the past, we had this type of electric lighter. I remember loving to get some nice electric shocks from the uninsulated cover.
We had one too, made at ElectroMures, Romania. Very similar to this one, similar format only the protection was made of baquelite instead of sheet metal and the hook was a loop of wire passing through the holes where the white stick holding the switch in place was passing. Worked well for many years and in the last years of Ceausescu was very useful since often could not buy matches to light up the stove (it is true that gas was also scarce so a lot of time we had nothing to lit anyway)
Had one of these growing up in 70’s Poland.
Hi Danik!
Here in italy too, when I was young and still could not touch the stove (70's) I remember that the lighting of the fires was done through a device similar to what you showed: this is elegant and austere like an old sennheiser 440 microphone, while mine seemed a suppository with a metal tip: it was the ancestor of the piezoelectric lighter, which forced you to have a power outlet near the kitchens that at the time did not need it ..... then years later the kitchens came out with the built-in ignition and all autonomous means of lighting the stove, from matches to gas lighters of all types, have practically disappeared
Same. My nonna had one which would activate when tilted more than 45 degrees.
I have seen a similar one that was definitely less well made. While not safe by today's standards this Russian one does seem well built.
Yes, this one seems nicely built. The double pole switch makes it a bit safer. The electrodes aren't live when it's not pressed.
@@NerdyNEET Drop it, and the metal top can be dented or bent in such a way, that it contacts the live metal parts.
Also, if some well intentioned fixer-upper replaces the plastic 'screw' thing with a metal one (maybe because someone melted it in the flame, or because it was dropped and broken) the metal part will become live.
Now, normally no one would touch the metal part. But it is very plausible that someone would touch a metal gas stove, while igniting the gas, and while touching the metal part to the metal bits of the stove. Then you will get shocked by the stove (assuming it's a gas stove, or an ungrounded electric one)
Actually, I remember even better built Soviet ones from the 80's, when I was a kid. The only problem with them was spark-wearing, so we had to clean the spark gap contact periodically. And yes, I had a sparkover into the gas ring body once, which tripped the circuit breaker.
In Russia they use IT style electrical grid. Which means that no wire of network is grounded. So if they touch any single wire, nothing happens. So in Russian view this was absolutely OK. I am not sure if these devices were to be imported officially into countries with TN-C or TN-S grids.
@@StackOverflow80, Soviet gas stoves usually were connected to the gas grid via rigid metal pipes without dielectric insets and thus behaved like they were grounded. And TN-C or TN-C-S was/is quite a usual thing here.
We had a mechanical hand version with piezoelectric crystal
I still do have one and use it to light my gas hob.
@@simontay4851 sparky 😃
Piezo igniters was already higher grade for USSR folks. And a bit hard to get.
My grandmother used to have a similar loud gas lighter. She also had a fridge with the word “CAPATOB” written on it and she said that it was pronounced “Saratov”.
That is fancy. We used a clicker thing or the sparker like you would use with a gas torch. I had never seen one that plugged in. Very cool.
That's crazy compared to the single cell 1.5V powered high voltage DC-DC converter jobs used since the 1980's over here in the UK.
As a child I do remember my grandmas gas cooker in the 1970's (which was probably from the 1950's) - it had a flexible cable and lance that sat in a holder to the side. It never did anything. I was told it was for lighting the hobs instead of using matches but had stopped working years ago. My intrigue made me strip it and clean all the years off grease from it. Set light to it with a match and sure enough it was working again. It was basically a gas pilot light permanently burning!
Curious!
I've seen those 'always on' pilot things too! But in my case, it was one pilot light in the middle of the 4 burner stove. From the pilot lights, there were 4 short pipes going to each burner, like an X-shape. The gas from one of the burners would travel through the pipe quickly, and then be ignited by the pilot light.
Seems awfully wasteful to just leave the pilot light running all the time.
people in your country seems to be very generous. they donate so many things to you
Something tells me that this device, might have problems passing RFI emissions testing!
LOL, these igniters indeed made interference for surrounding radios and TVs when operated. But who cares about stove igniter EMI noise when government pour a ton of money into industrial scale RF noise generators used to suppress "enemy radio stations" like Voice of America and Radio Free Europe around country. Exactly that happened in USSR.
You can call me crazy but I've used one until recently. When I bought my gas stove it didn't have any electric igniters (the brand is Faure, a really good french brand but I bought their cheapest model) so all I could do is dig up one of these from my pile of old electric stuff. The trick was to not touch the stove because it would trigger ground protection. Last week it failed, it already pretty old and the metal contacts were completely gone so I switched to a good old barbecue lighter and it's much better :)
Big Clive looked at one of these too!
Yes, but i think his burned?
Indeed: ruclips.net/video/S5uiupJQc9M/видео.html
"Inside a pleasingly scary Russian 240V gas igniter."
@Luca Capelli Yes the Scottish are the inventors of all time and adventurers - withou them you wouldnt have the tv , tar macadam , the steam engine ,. light bulbs , America etc etc etc lol
its the Chinese optimized version of this one
The Soviets really had their own style, didn't they?
Make a video to tell us about yourself and your study
I know it, we have the same in the '80s. Greetings from Hungary !
We had very similar gas stove ignition devices in my childhood and school years. First one lasted 10 years then burned out. Second one lived until we got new stove with built-in igniter.
You read and speak Russian! I'm impressed.
@@NerdyNEET And he is a slav, soo not too hard except the cyril letters
He speak English very well why don't u understand i think he is come from czech republic
He is come from czech republic and that's his mother tongue
In Soviet era Czechs as all other nations under Kremlin's boot was forced to learn Russian to survive. Older generation still understand Russian and many can talk fairly well too.
Ooow thats crude but clever :-D, i still use a piezo impact type, no mains :-)
NEY Industries
Often simplicity lasts longer than complex over designed products.
Look at the simple knife or fork, they just work for centurys without the need to change the simple design.
I happen to dislike computers being added to almost everything for no good reason, adding complexity that will fail.
Just my opinion :-)
NEY Industries
Ooow you are so evil ha ha :-D
All the user programmable micro controllers are a nuisance as well, when it dies the code dies with it :-(.
Often impossible to get the code.
Give me an external rom/flash or whatever.
Yes i'm an old git, and i moan a lot lol.
Yesss i known what was it😎
It was very ecological because it was substitute of matches.
Where's the cat, did she take day off?
She was afraid her fur would catch fire
Another reason why the adapter is dodgy. Any adapter that allows connecting the ungrounded plug to a grounded outlet is illegal in Finland. Use of ungrounded equipment near grounded ones is dangerous. Also in Finland sockets in kitchens have been grounded at least since 1957.
I immediatly thought this has to be a gas lighter :-) But i never saw one running on mains voltage. My grandma used one for her stove, running just on battery - for a long time.
Old gas stove igniter. I remember my parents have similiar one except the green casing (Poland)
I like the Scary, Crazy Russian things! :-)
Ronnie Pirtle Jr
Probably less scary than carbon monoxide poisoning due to lacking regulations. Lots of people still die nowadays due to shitty old stoves in closed rooms with no ventilation.
@@laharl2k true, I don't use my old gas stove. If I did I would definitely use a carbon monoxide detector!
What a clean stove you have!
nice one.. I like that.. although we have no gas in our neighborhood here..
We had that zazhigalka, too. But it was older model, maybe from 87.
I love it. We used similar when I was a child!
cleanest stove on RUclips! Thanks for the videos!
Used responsibly, I see no problem with this device.
My grandma had it, the same exact model, but with red handle, not black and black button not red. She had a soviet stove too. She had it until 2012 when we inherited her house and made a massive refurbishment. I didn't threw it away, I till have it somewhere, I actually played with it upstairs and I hear mom shouting "WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING STOP NOW OR I'LL BRAKE IT" turns out it was creating huge interference at mains and her speakers she had in living room were crackling extremely loudly and startled her badly like 5 times XDXDXD LMAO Should do it sometimes soon again just to mess with her lol
At the start of the video, I thought was a mini ozone generator for deodourising small items like smelly footwear.
Without metal cover it could be self defence device :)
When you're standing near a socket...
lol
Oh... 😂
Or Soviet truth serum.
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DiodeGoneWild
This is gas igniter. In Poland also people used electric igniters like this one in 80 or 90s I believe.
У меня тоже такая зажигалка. Надёжная как я не знаю что. Там абсолютно нечему ломаться. Но теперь умудряются делать Так что я её уже три раза справлял в разных местах. 1 - Отошёл контакт. 2 - Оборвался проводок который идёт к единственной Если так можно выразиться электронной детали обмотке. 3 - Играюсь уже неделю Оказалось что разрыв теперь в самой обмотке. Там проводок как волосинка. Радует что хоть разобрался теперь думаю как это всё собрать и когда на это найти время. Нет, конечно можно купить очередную новую Но у меня уже столько разных было... зарабатываешь копейки чтобы отдавать их на мусор...
| remember those in my frequent trips to the CR. Very nice way. I wanted to get one for here in my house but didn't find it then... around '94.
But in the late 80s, I bought a Piezoelectric Gas Igniter made by Kharkovski Zavod. Very good ergonomic shape and beautiful design with two large Piezoelectric elements with the size of a cigarette filter. Still working
I guess that one have less crackling noise and not so scary to use)
I live in kosovo and the use these things besides a normal lighter everyday . Its to light up a gas cooker or what ever its called in english
It sounds like it's buzzing at 50Hz (or 100Hz?). Presumably the spark and coil tend towards this frequency, but I would have to think about the actual mechanism behind it. I guess, that around the 0V part of the cycle, the coil has no energy so the contact is made, with no effect. As the voltage builds, the coil starts to energise and create the spark. Maybe they worked out the resonant frequency of the assembly so that it would tend to re-make around the zero point again. Or maybe they didn't worry about that and let it run at whatever frequency it liked.
I know what we need here. "More salt!"
Is that a camera flash that uses mains power on the right at the end of the video? I have a similar one that is portable. It has a battery compartment with a shoulder strap, 4 D-cell batteries go in and it has a socket similar to mains.
Would love to see more '80s soviet camera tech here.
I remember that there is a battery Converter to power a flash like this .
This is a stove lighter, Big Clive looked at one on his channel
seems weird that they made a mains powered electrical one. when I was a kid we had a gas stove lighter which was basically the same size and shape but it was a piezo sparker, it had a big button you squeezed and it made a spark at the end
I bet I've met that device before reviewed by Big Clive.
UPD0: Yeah, his version featured a steel nail as its center contact.
WOW ! what a talent you read rusian
I can only read the letters, tho.
It's easier for him to learn russian, because czech language is a lot similar to russain. The main difference is that czech language uses the latin alphabet.
@@NerdyNEET Well yeah, what I meant is that it's closer to russian than english or most western languages.
@Rouge Stream why on earth are you learning russian?!?!
@@NerdyNEET "Even russian and english got things in common" - Evidently, you miss the point in loanwords.
I used to play with that when I was a kid..
Dude, it’s from the Soviet era, of course it’s going to be scary. Hell, even matryoshka dolls from that time were scary.
Zažigalik, jsem si celkem jistej, žes věděl od začátku moc dobře co to je :)
Simple device and it works.
0.5A seems reasonable since the coil theoretically would pass 1A but is off roughly half of the time in operation.
This older version looks better made than the new one Big Clive showed - just as scary though. This is like an old style mains 'buzzer', but with less insulation/more danger. Haha.
This one at least seems a bit more civilized than the version of this that Big Clive reviewed
I've found that video, and the Big Clive's one is a modern one, quite similar but apparantly cheapened out.
@@DiodeGoneWild Yeah, the one Clive reviewed literally had a nail on it for the arcing rod. It's near identical but it somehow has a more old school soviet look to it than this thing
Bloody hell
you had something similar here I believe. btw where did you learned russian that well?
In a mid 80' my grandma buy one like this in a pistol format and years later when faults, I disassenbly and see how it works! I´m Brazil! Like!
Its a gas stove lighter. My grandmom used it in early '90s, i was small boy. Everyone had gas stove in their apartment. It was big house with like 100 apartments, gas was built-in into house.
Gas lines went to each apartment, from floor 0 to 5. So 100 apartments and each apartment had one gas stove, so 100 gas stoves.
Gas tanks were outside, near the house and barricaded with the fence. Some people burned gas stoves just to get some more warmth in the apartment. Besides the central heating system which used(s) radiators.
So if something terrible would happen, gas leak or something and somebody lights a match then half or whole building would go.
It was a dangerous thing. After 95 or so the gas and all the gas lines were removed completely. Because this system was too old and dangerous.
Jo, tak tento zapalovač si moc dobře pamatuji.
Wow. Your stove is clean.
I already bought one of these log time ago for 2BRL, but didnt last too long.
A nice igniter. Would be useful for a propane stove or grill
my great grandfather used to make these out of wood and sell them. i have some of them that are assembled and others that aren’t, one is fully assembled and probably working but i’m a bit scared to plug it in (i’ll probably do that some day in series with an incandescent lamp) and there’s also one that has two wires coming out of it meant to short them on the metal surface of the stove
We had one when I was a child, these were quite popular in former CAER. I struggled to understand the principle of operation but failed. I was only 10 and never got a shock from it. Can't say modern devices feel much more safe these days
Maybe you could explain the secrets/advantages of protected earth versus old style where earth was missing (I feel having access to either ground or neutral and earth is equally dangerous)
Podobný zapalovač měla každá druhá domácnost v 70 letech i v ČSSR. Neměl tlačítko a spouštěl se jen tím, že se otočil vrchní částí dolů. :-)
Vsadím se, že kdybych prohledal byt rodičů, ještě ho někde najdu! :-)
Pamatuji si ho jak z domu, tak i od obou babiček...
We are expecting to make Power supplay those with a specific CC & CV
Definitely BORG technology - could be a Vinculum plasma disruptor waveform guide!
Осциллограф, зажигалка.... Вы родом из СССР. Замечательные видео.
Russians make the best DIY stun guns. Tons better than those cheap Chinese ones you see on eBay and Amazon.
Many years ago my grandfather had one of those very similar. Made in our country (Argentina).
And that's why modern electronic ignitions use a capacitive discharge HV spark.. so they're not using 80 WATTS just to light a burner
Tho i was fixing a gas furnace the other day and the igniter confused me... it looked like an electronic ignition but there was no little HV transformer.
So I tested the heat and the igniter was just a filament that gets red-hot. Really took a while to light the burner.... guess that's fine for a residential furnace but I don't like it.
that is time machine! thank you! ❤️
О...савковые изобретения)) Самые надёжные в мире!
Grandma used one till the end of 1990s. Disturbed radio and TV like hell :) We had piezoelectric one at home. Czechoslovakia FTW!
You can also find this device on ebay.
"Niiiiiiice" hahaha man I love you, your videos are so cool and you seem to be a very nice and cute human being
I guess you could technically use it as a taser as well
Yes, and carry it in my pocket together with a big lead acid battery and a DC/AC inverter :).
50 years ago these exact devices were used in Israel to ignite the gas stoves like what you did in the video. the old devices did not have the metal cover around the spark device. just open 240VAC so the housewives had to be careful. possibly imported from Russia or maybe even locally designed.
Nice. They considered it so simple, it does not have a circuit plan. I like Russian made things of the age, just got a Elektronika clock with separate VFD tubes. By the way, this igniter is a unusual application of: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagnerscher_Hammer
The electromagnetic compatibility must be horibble
it works very well, better thand the stove's igniter!! but then again it did have a larger arc compared to modern stove igniter's.. cool devise even if it is unsafe by today's standards!!! : )
Pamatuji se, matka to přivezla z Moskvy a hodně let jsme to používali. Jednou jsem to nechal spuštěné delší dobu a shořela cívka. Převinul jsem to a použil menší počet závitů. Létaly v tom obrovské jiskry :D Minimálně 2x se nám to podařilo utopit ve dřezu a po vysušení zapalovač fungoval dál. Po letech se plasty rozpadly, tak jsme to vyhodili.
Hand wand bug zapper. UV bulb was what I thought before you turned it on.
It's a gas cooker lighter to light the cooker for cooking
gas igniter, my parents used to have one.
i know exactly what it is from de first seconds, i had something similar when i was a kid in the 90 to ignite the gas on the stove
I really miss this thing.
this instrument is used to light the gas in a gas cooker . it was widely used in Algeria.
It is an old morse code transmitter. For people comunicate with the neighbours in a more private way, and not switch on and off the house lgihts. The battery mobile version were the flashlights. After that we started to use phones and nowadays we use mobile phones. Lol
Isn't that the shock baton from Half-Life 2? :)
It's the shock baton from Soviet Union. Babysitting grannies use them to calm unruly children.