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Originally Posted by Flamingnun
Secondly, you'd need some sort of thermostat to limit how hot it burns, or you'd be as well sticking to a lighter. I'd also consider removing the fans/flaps in favour of a button, or "pad" area of the pipe which triggers ignition, considering the fans/flaps would be in an ashy/tarry environment around the bowl, there's a lot to go wrong.
Thirdly, have you factored a power source into this? Is it feasible without making the pipe 80's tv style remote control sized?
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The penlight soldering iron that got me started thinking about this worked with AAA batteries, so I figure they would power this idea too; but perhaps not. But the goal would be a tube about the size of a small cigar. The ceramic has an optimum heat level depending on the exact formulation, which should - but maybe not! - eliminate the need for a thermostat. Having an 'ignition button' is possible, of course, but probably no harder to construct than the 'air flap' sensor; the advantage to the sensor would be that the oven would turn on only when suckage commenced, and stop immediately with suckendage. But of course that does introduce a moving part, so a contact-activated on button with no moving parts might be the way to go. The question of tarring up the flaps (or turbine or windmill or whatever) would be eliminated by having the air-sensor trigger in front of the oven.