Heat Coil Help

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Hessam

Joined Apr 11, 2013
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Hey guys I'm trying to make a device that heats up fairly high to heat up coals. The coals are fairly small maybe the size of a half dollar. I wanted to make something simple and wanted to know if i could take a cigarette lighter coil and connect it straight to a battery or would i have to make a circuit and a separate heating coil.The power supply could be anything but preferably 5-12 volts.
 

kubeek

Joined Sep 20, 2005
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if a cigarrete lighter from a car has high enough temperature then I see no problem with connecting it to a power supply like an ATX one, but be aware that it will need some large amount of current, like 10A or so, so you should use thick wires to connect it.
 
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