Comparing two stoves, would you buy one that weighs two ounces more, if all else where equal?
Well, no… because if everything else about the stoves is equal, the extra two ounces is just that: extra weight.
Both have Peizo lighters. It’s only later that you find out the one you bought has a crappy lighter. The heavier one has a more dependable lighter.
That’s not “all else being equal.” My answer is still no, however.
How would you know? and would you buy it anyway, given we all carry lighters?
Good/bad/indifferent are all subjective judgements, so that’s up to the individual buyer…and yes, I would buy the one with the crappy piezo anyway, which is exactly what I did. My original plan was to just use a lighter, and to strip the broken piezo from the stove; it wasn’t until I got it home that I thought about trying to fix it. I assumed that the problem was in the piezoelectric plate, and not the connection. That being said:
Every Peizo lighter I’ve ever owned, whether on BPing stoves or backyard gas grills, lasted at most a year.
I’ve had the same basic issue. I don’t expect any of them to last.
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