How does a car cigarette lighter work?
How does a car cigarette lighter work?
Explore the engineering of a car cigarette lighter through industrial CT scans, revealing an efficient analog design that operates without digital components.
This is an ad for something CT-scan-related, but it contains a good breakdown of how an old car cigarette lighter works. And it has a couple interactive CT Scan explorers past the video.
This company is does a cool thing. I saw them on Adam Savage’s YouTube last year. Any product they scan, is uploaded to their site. Any person can launch the web app and look at the scans of the things they’ve scanned. You can view the full images in all dimensions.
Ah, the old school electric car cigarette lighter. Also known as "The curious child's first learning experience with the concept of 'hot' "
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You used to be able to get a special dispenser that would hand you a lit cigarette as you drove.
https://jalopnik.com/cars-once-came-with-built-in-cigarette-dispensers-1795733052
“...a built-in cigarette case which “hands” you a cigarette at the [unintelligible] of a convenient lever.”
Really disappointed that's all that link had... No pictures or illustrations, not even a proper description :/
This one has images and a diagram. So you pull the lever on the bottom and on top a cigarette will be Pezzed out. Here's the car it was installed in. Didn't find anything about it being lit though.
Found it in the Popular Mechanics issue.I wanted a video, but couldn't find one.
Wow thanks, that's so amazing!
The 3d scans you can manipulate on that page are pretty cool.
Not all that surprised by the lighters mechanism though; a bit of nickle chrome wire for a heating element and some bi-metal strips to release it based on temperature. Pretty simple.
Me, being old, thinking about the kids who might see this and not understand it at all.