At first I thought it an insect killer. Gas igniter is more plausible. “Thank heavens for little coils!”

My grandma had those. Her favorite way to light her gas stove.

looks like a stove lighter

The device is not grounded because in Russia you are grounded

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.

1:14 I thought it would erase his memory

My parents used to use a device like this, when I was little. I am from Romania btw.

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.

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

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)

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.

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!

Had one of these growing up in 70’s Poland.

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

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.

cleanest stove on KZfaq! Thanks for the videos!

Zažigalik, jsem si celkem jistej, žes věděl od začátku moc dobře co to je :)

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

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”.

What a clean stove you have!

The Soviets really had their own style, didn't they?

I love it. We used similar when I was a child!

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!

We had a mechanical hand version with piezoelectric crystal

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 :)

people in your country seems to be very generous. they donate so many things to you

This is very safe, me and my parents used this thing for over 25 years, every day.

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.

We had that zazhigalka, too. But it was older model, maybe from 87.

Big Clive looked at one of these too!

Make a video to tell us about yourself and your study

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

Something tells me that this device, might have problems passing RFI emissions testing!

@ DiodeGoneWild This is gas igniter. In Poland also people used electric igniters like this one in 80 or 90s I believe.

nice one.. I like that.. although we have no gas in our neighborhood here..

I know it, we have the same in the '80s. Greetings from Hungary !

Old gas stove igniter. I remember my parents have similiar one except the green casing (Poland)

| 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.

I used to play with that when I was a kid..

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 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.

I know what we need here. "More salt!"

Yesss i known what was it😎 It was very ecological because it was substitute of matches.

You read and speak Russian! I'm impressed.

A nice igniter. Would be useful for a propane stove or grill

I really miss this thing.

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.

you had something similar here I believe. btw where did you learned russian that well?

that is time machine! thank you! ❤️

Definitely BORG technology - could be a Vinculum plasma disruptor waveform guide!

At the start of the video, I thought was a mini ozone generator for deodourising small items like smelly footwear.

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.

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)

I bet I've met that device before reviewed by Big Clive. UPD0: Yeah, his version featured a steel nail as its center contact.

We are expecting to make Power supplay those with a specific CC & CV

very nice

0.5A seems reasonable since the coil theoretically would pass 1A but is off roughly half of the time in operation.

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

Dude, it’s from the Soviet era, of course it’s going to be scary. Hell, even matryoshka dolls from that time were scary.

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!

OK. Nice video.

Ooow thats crude but clever :-D, i still use a piezo impact type, no mains :-)

"Niiiiiiice" hahaha man I love you, your videos are so cool and you seem to be a very nice and cute human being

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.

I like the Scary, Crazy Russian things! :-)

I remember those from my childhood. Would it trigger an arc fault breaker? Also, any chance of slomo footage?

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

Wow. Your stove is clean.

This is a stove lighter, Big Clive looked at one on his channel

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...

Bloody hell

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.

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.

Jo, tak tento zapalovač si moc dobře pamatuji.

I already bought one of these log time ago for 2BRL, but didnt last too long.

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.

Simple device and it works.

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

Russians make the best DIY stun guns. Tons better than those cheap Chinese ones you see on eBay and Amazon.

I want one!

Where's the cat, did she take day off?

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!!! : )

Do you they teach russian at school in your country? interesting device, i thought it was a timing light or something like that

Cool

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.

Can it be used to get rid of hair that causes clingons?

You can read russian! Круто! Классный канал, классные обзоры!

This one at least seems a bit more civilized than the version of this that Big Clive reviewed

It's a kitchen taser! In case the children misbehave.

Many years ago my grandfather had one of those very similar. Made in our country (Argentina).

I 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.

Used responsibly, I see no problem with this device.

One of these but battery powered would be nice

As BigClive mentioned, this little thing probably works great as radio jammer in the vicinity

Hand wand bug zapper. UV bulb was what I thought before you turned it on.

We had this lighter at home but then switch on it broke