Joule Ringer!

[xee2]

I did a test using a Joule thief circuit to see if it could light a 120 VAC LED bulb using a toroid and a 1.5 volt AA battery. It can, but the bulb is not very bright. A resonant circuit is more efficient (more light for less power).


video >>>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLbfmcjGsQM

[lanenal]

Weird . Mine don't draw hardly anything running 110vac led bulbs . a meer 27 milliamps . Mine runs off one aa battery  and glows a 130 volt fliiament  and runs cfls full bright !  you need 700 or more turns on the secondary and 60 or more on the primary using #12 or # 14 house wire solid copper . .. here is my setup using a 6 inch  rod   700 turns inside #20 16 outside #12  using tip3055 and one aa battery .  draw on this 40 watt led bulb full bright is 27 ma .

http://youtu.be/K7SMrTSklv0

The simulation below seems to confirm the current measurement.

[gadgetmall]

Gadgetmall,

                  A rough calculation puts your COP at >1000xO.U. That's a thousand times overunity! This factor would make Nuclear Fission and every other type of energy generation obsolete. This would amount to no small accomplishment! This has me really wondering if your measurements are accurate? I'm hoping your right.

I don't know how your figuring this but it can't be right . I did say my led bulbs were 40 watts and that is incorrect however . They produce light equal to a 40 watt incandescent white bulb but only draw 7 watt s. now recalculate that and see if it is more reasonable  . to me 27 ma is high to light these because  i have done it before with half that with this
    http://youtu.be/UOPfqsH6_-U  but what is different is the current it produces to light cfl's full on  and glow filaments from a battey cell  . this is cool .

incase you missed my TPU running leds bulbs .

http://youtu.be/3EPx7Zq46MI http://youtu.be/3EPx7Zq46MI

[NickZ]

  I've been testing transistors to see if I can find some that will work, and last a while also.  As you can see from the picture below I gone through a few of them...
  So, I'm also making a new coil from an old crt monitor ferrite yoke. I'm almost done with it. Here's a picture of the small 3 inch radio rod coil, as well as the new yoke coil.
  I'm making the replication from this video, as the yoke has been able to do just about as well as the bigger ferrite rod like Lasersabers uses.
   
   Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=e3wifl_FnZo
   


 

[gadgetmall]

  I've been testing transistors to see if I can find some that will work, and last a while also.  As you can see from the picture below I gone through a few of them...
  So, I'm also making a new coil from an old crt monitor ferrite yoke. I'm almost done with it. Here's a picture of the small 3 inch radio rod coil, as well as the new yoke coil.
  I'm making the replication from this video, as the yoke has been able to do just about as well as the bigger ferrite rod like Lasersabers uses.
   
   Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=e3wifl_FnZo
   

AWESOME NICKZ !!! . I love it . care to share the voltage input . Its look super cool and i know you are proud of it. Thanks for hanig in here with  us creating new ways to get some power . Some details on how you wound it and if you used just one half of the core ?

Great Job!!