Single AA battery to light WHITE LED for long-long time

[amigo]

Something just occurred to me relating to what we are doing here, while reading a seemingly unrelated book (Secret of Life by Lakhovsky). On the page where I am now he's talking about radiations in general, being the disturbances in/of the aether traveling at the velocity of light. Though that's not what I'd like to draw attention here but to a small chart breaking down various spectra, X-ray, UV, visible, IR, etc.

Long story short, Visible Light is in 0.8-0.4um range while IR is 314-0.8um (1 um = 1/1000 mm) and so it dawned on me about the spark gaps we are trying to create with electrodes very very close to each other (order of a few 100um or less). It's not that the spark gaps don't work - they are most likely working, it's just that we can't see them because their emanations are in the IR range and just beyond our range of vision.

What do you think?

[turbo]

Well i always see a tiny blue like light between the electrodes.
The NE2's lite up a bit in open loop and they lite up a bit in closed loop.
But they lite up brilliant when the spark is present.

M.

[Feynman]

@amigo

I tried replicating your version of joule thief, but I might have burned something out.  Cause I can't get it to work.    I blame the damned HAARP.

Is this the correct schematic...  I hard wired the push-button closed.  Also, I am using approx 8mm toroid, h material, permeability 15000, 30awg bifilar drilled..  Also I am using the MPS2222.

[Groundloop]

@Feynman,

Something with this circuit is not right. When you press the button then you are grounding the battery through the coil. I have made a drawing that is a little better. The 1K resistor is moved to the ground side of the trigger coil. Now when you press the start button, then you have the 1K to ground AND the coil resistance and inductance. This will not short circuit your battery and the circuit will start to run. Also note that the trigger coil and the power coil must be connected 180 degrees to each other. See the small black dots on the coils.

[EDIT] After the circuit has started to run you release the start button. No need to hardwire.

Hope this helps.

Groundloop.

[Feynman]

Thanks groundloop

You are right.   I went and took the battery and hooked it back up to the original replication and its almost out of charge.  So I think the circuit is shorted out.   I'll try your recommendations, it was probably a transcription error in drawing the circuit. 

EDIT:  I tried this revised version and no go, so I'm going to do data collection on the trifilar version for now.