Dont do that …… Somebody will come along soon and explain.
Endle55torture
Probably a bad ground somewhere
cavenio
Electromagnetic disruption. Is weird that a lighter can do that but maybe your monitor is too sensible to some wavelenghts that the lighter emits
KnowledgeOk3729
I wait regular show intro..
BetterPySoonTm
Ever seen one of those lighters dissembled? It has a small little shock thing for lack of better words.
You are then touching the desk or similarly where you have a clock based DP cable or old poorly shielded HDMI.
Number1OchoaHater
Piezo
Sand-Eagle
Miniature spark-gap transmitter – bet you’re using a display port cable eh? They’re pretty sensitive to electromagnetic interference. With an electric arc lighter and a pop can, I can blast my DP monitors from several feet away but my monitors on HDMI aren’t effected.
AFAIK and I might be wrong here, but you’re basically propagating energy through the electromagnetic field when the spark emits to ignite the gas.
If that is what this is and anyone feels like scaling it up – don’t. It’s been a illegal for like 90 years lol.
Cultural-Stranger-56
I don’t know but I’m so annoyed too when I’m lighting my lighter instead of using my computer – all the fkin’ time
Good_Independence403
Seeing a lot of misinformation on here. Actual answer? Magic
BuchMaister
The lighter has small piezoelectric crystal that creates large voltage when pressed (which creates the arc that ignites the released gas). As people said, bad EMI shielding disruptions in the monitor plus this voltage create the disruptions you see.
bobmlord1
The spark that lights the flame is causing enough interference to make something in your chain cut out. More than likely caused by cheap peripherals or poorly shielded cables.
azzgo13
wow.. head scratcher, does it have a remote – perhaps it is getting an infrared signal from the lighter?
therocksinyourshoes
It gets a lil nervous seeing fire.
_3L0
Gaydar
-Laffi-
You think a lighter is a problem? Try buying a fabric gaming chair, and everytime you stand up, the screen flickers at least 10 times, and the next time touching metal, you will get shocked. Every single time!
Heck! I even got shocked in my ancles!
Good chair, but I had to return it.
awake283
What in the world
rafaeltrenton
ah yes, the BT on/off switch update for BIC lighters finally rolled out
SpecialistBottleh
2 words:
Electromagnetic interference (EMI)
The lighter uses a piezoelectric material (typically Quartz) to transform mechanical energy (pressing the trigger) into electricity (when current flows trough a conductor it generates electromagnetic waves).
It uses the electricity to form an ark due to the high voltage and ignite the flame, but the EMI it’s still there, It basically applies wirelessly a small amount of electricity to the monitor’s components and causes it to misfire and produces the effect shown in the video.
This isn’t supposed to happen with proper EMI shielding, but as another of OPs comment says it’s only on this monitor and not on the other one that is the same model. This gives us 2 possible answers:
1. The first monitor has some kind of malfunctionality or the ground wire (if present) doesn’t work properly anymore
2. The two monitors are two diffrent revisions and one of them (probably older) isn’t properly shielded.
techsuppr0t
Monitors do weird shit, some of them pick up radio stations and emit sound when they don’t have speakers built in.
jayjr1105
Similar to the monitor issues office environments had with the gas strut office chairs. Bad dock, or bad HDMI cable? nope, bouncy chairs were to blame.
I have been fighting an issue where my monitor goes black for about a second, happens every 15 minutes or so. I never considered the dvi cord shielding. Thanks for posting this.
GamesTeasy
Black magic is the only possible explanation
Aphala
Piezoelectric effect, those lighters have a small crystal in them that discharge causing close by electrics (with crystals ie LCD displays) to switch from off to on very quickly.
That’s probably wrong but if my rustic memory serves that’s the effect you’re witnessing
Balavadan
This is a repost I’m very sure
thedreaming2017
You’re a wizard or the monitor is afraid of you!
Nooblord29
The monitor’s previous owner mistreated it with fire.
Poor thing is so traumatized that it blacks out just from seeing a flame 🙁
Please don’t do it again.
Coronadoisdead
Did that monitor come with a remote for some weird reason?
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Dont do that …… Somebody will come along soon and explain.
Probably a bad ground somewhere
Electromagnetic disruption. Is weird that a lighter can do that but maybe your monitor is too sensible to some wavelenghts that the lighter emits
I wait regular show intro..
Ever seen one of those lighters dissembled? It has a small little shock thing for lack of better words.
You are then touching the desk or similarly where you have a clock based DP cable or old poorly shielded HDMI.
Piezo
Miniature spark-gap transmitter – bet you’re using a display port cable eh? They’re pretty sensitive to electromagnetic interference. With an electric arc lighter and a pop can, I can blast my DP monitors from several feet away but my monitors on HDMI aren’t effected.
AFAIK and I might be wrong here, but you’re basically propagating energy through the electromagnetic field when the spark emits to ignite the gas.
If that is what this is and anyone feels like scaling it up – don’t. It’s been a illegal for like 90 years lol.
I don’t know but I’m so annoyed too when I’m lighting my lighter instead of using my computer – all the fkin’ time
Seeing a lot of misinformation on here. Actual answer? Magic
The lighter has small piezoelectric crystal that creates large voltage when pressed (which creates the arc that ignites the released gas). As people said, bad EMI shielding disruptions in the monitor plus this voltage create the disruptions you see.
The spark that lights the flame is causing enough interference to make something in your chain cut out. More than likely caused by cheap peripherals or poorly shielded cables.
wow.. head scratcher, does it have a remote – perhaps it is getting an infrared signal from the lighter?
It gets a lil nervous seeing fire.
Gaydar
You think a lighter is a problem? Try buying a fabric gaming chair, and everytime you stand up, the screen flickers at least 10 times, and the next time touching metal, you will get shocked. Every single time!
Heck! I even got shocked in my ancles!
Good chair, but I had to return it.
What in the world
ah yes, the BT on/off switch update for BIC lighters finally rolled out
2 words:
Electromagnetic interference (EMI)
The lighter uses a piezoelectric material (typically Quartz) to transform mechanical energy (pressing the trigger) into electricity (when current flows trough a conductor it generates electromagnetic waves).
It uses the electricity to form an ark due to the high voltage and ignite the flame, but the EMI it’s still there, It basically applies wirelessly a small amount of electricity to the monitor’s components and causes it to misfire and produces the effect shown in the video.
This isn’t supposed to happen with proper EMI shielding, but as another of OPs comment says it’s only on this monitor and not on the other one that is the same model. This gives us 2 possible answers:
1. The first monitor has some kind of malfunctionality or the ground wire (if present) doesn’t work properly anymore
2. The two monitors are two diffrent revisions and one of them (probably older) isn’t properly shielded.
Monitors do weird shit, some of them pick up radio stations and emit sound when they don’t have speakers built in.
Similar to the monitor issues office environments had with the gas strut office chairs. Bad dock, or bad HDMI cable? nope, bouncy chairs were to blame.
Electroboom has a video about this effect.
[Coherer effect](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMkdnj698-0)
I have been fighting an issue where my monitor goes black for about a second, happens every 15 minutes or so. I never considered the dvi cord shielding. Thanks for posting this.
Black magic is the only possible explanation
Piezoelectric effect, those lighters have a small crystal in them that discharge causing close by electrics (with crystals ie LCD displays) to switch from off to on very quickly.
That’s probably wrong but if my rustic memory serves that’s the effect you’re witnessing
This is a repost I’m very sure
You’re a wizard or the monitor is afraid of you!
The monitor’s previous owner mistreated it with fire.
Poor thing is so traumatized that it blacks out just from seeing a flame 🙁
Please don’t do it again.
Did that monitor come with a remote for some weird reason?