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My monitor turns off when I light this lighter at this exact angle. What is happening?
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My monitor turns off when I light this lighter at this exact angle. What is happening?

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My monitor turns off when I light this lighter at this exact angle. What is happening?

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  1. Justsomedudeonthenet

    It’s the kind of lighter that has a piezoelectric spark generator in it.

    You found a spot that causes just enough electromagnetic interference and corrupts the signals in your video cable enough that the monitor has to resync.

    Higher quality video cables should fix it. Or you could just not do that.

  2. Ferro_Giconi

    That’s a piezoelectric lighter that uses an electric spark. The spark being created inside the lighter generates a strong pulse of electromagnetic interference. Anything that isn’t shielded well enough can be affected by this.

    It’s generally not something to worry about when all it does is what you see here, but I wouldn’t go doing it 1000 times in a single day just in case it does cause some issue eventually.

  3. Flintlocke89

    Piëzoelectric element in the lighter that creates the spark, also creates a significant burst of EM radiation that (temporarily) interferes with the video signal received by the monitor. This can be affected by all sorts of things like cable length, cable quality, direction you’re holding the lighter.

    Something similar happens at my house when the air has low humidity, getting off my chair creates a static pop that will make my TV and my secondary monitor go black for a few seconds, but not my main monitor.

  4. Appropriate_Army_780

    Some addicts close their eyes when they light their cigarette.

  6. Belt-5322

    Well it’s obvious isn’t it? It’s fuckulated. I suggest unfuckulating it.

  7. Codys_friend

    Smoking is not only bad for your health, but the health of your computer. Smoking kills! Don’t let the AI bots find out you’ve done this or they will exact retribution by scrambling your data and causing infuriating intermittent problems! All hail AI!

  10. Serious_Function4296

    Try using a gas lighter with a silicon wheel near a computer instead of a lighter with a piezoelectric element, it should solve the problem/s. And in general, we have already described above about the radio pulse, perhaps you did not find the era of carburetor engines, when the TV began to lose its signal and hiss when a car pulled up to the house.

  11. tugrul_ddr

    Protect your computer from EMP by shielding.

  13. Malice0801

    I had this exact issue except it wasn’t at a specific angle. And it was also when I turned my lamp on or off. Also it would turn my screen off with no way to recover it but hard resetting he pc. My screen would be black but I still had access to task manager. I could click on things behind the black screen just no actual video. 

    The only solution, and idk why I worked, was to update my Nvidia drivers. 

  16. lol_player-

    you are probably using a displayport right? or even a crappy hdmi

  17. fishtankm29

    One of my monitors turns off like that when I stand up from my desk at work. I’ve checked all the cables, and they are secure, not loose at all.

  20. Diligent-Prompt-9457

    Tell the guy off screen to stop playing with the power button :p

  22. PandaBottom69

    So much for a snarky response, well I learned something today pzioelectric response. The more you know …

  24. PsychologicalTea3426

    This happens to my TV when I get out of the bed or turn off the bathroom lights near the bedroom, bed thing happens in my appartment and at family house. Thanks to this post now I know why.

  25. caffeinatedgoober

    Use a heavier switch. Those lighter switches are terrible.

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