Ballast resistor and resistor wire

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dasadrew wrote:

I have a sneaking suspicion that those flame throwers are designed to be able to run continuously at 12V? :?:?

There are two types of Flamethrower coil; ballasted (1.5 ohms) and un-ballasted (3 ohms).

If you run the ballasted oneon 12 volts (without a ballast)it will soon die.