Shake-em-up flashlight generator

[Charlie_V]

My brother-in-law bought one of the shake flashlights from Walmart.  It is a rare earth magnet that slides between a coil of thin wire and many turns.  It has 4 diodes and a capacitor.  The entire thing is in clear plastic so you can see all the components.  Its a nice device, I shook it for what seemed to be less than a minute and it stayed on close to 30.  It doesn't use batteries at all.

[cyclops]

Night Star is the original flashlight and works very well as I own one and can attest. It has one coil mag and two repelling mags, coil, bridge rectifier super cap, diode lamp,and switching circuit. The unit is sealed, water proof, claims is unbreakable (have not tried}. Cost around $30.00 US. And yes there are many phonies out there.

[nightlife]

I have taken mine apart and it is just as I said it is. I have not taken the capacitor apart to see if it has any battery's as some claim theirs have. Mine only cost me $15 and it worked better then it was said to be able to. It took over an hour for the capacitor to fully discharge to the point where the light didn't emit any light. I have a video of it with all the parts but I cant get it to load here or on Youtube. I will try and load it again on Youtube.
I post a link if I can get it to load.

[nightlife]

I was able to list one but it is of pictures and not a video footage. It will not except my video footage becuase it says the format isn't right. I will play with it later becuase it shows what happened when I put them all together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ-GV_XUS-0

[Formula1]

I was able to list one but it is of pictures and not a video footage. It will not except my video footage becuase it says the format isn't right. I will play with it later becuase it shows what happened when I put them all together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ-GV_XUS-0

I'm really excited to see this work.....
I think it has a lot of potential... good luck!