yes it definitely makes a spark a nice constant flow on pull and release of the handle. The handle is the ground and the needle in the tip is the completion of the circuit. I did some work on it tonight and have a pair of leads running out of it that i can place almost 1/2 inch apart and get ...

i have never built a potato gun yet but do you guys think that this could work as an ignition system if wired into a strip. I don't know how to post a link but if you google search it you can find the site. I just had one given to me that puts off quite a shock probable 10 times more than a grill ...