air circut mixed with a joule thief

[virtualshogun]

not sure how well this will work what power it will produce etc but the basic ideal an air circut with a joule thief bumping the end power up

aircircut is easy -
(4) geranium diodes (1N34A) mouser.com is where im getting them from
(2) .1 micro Farads ceramic disk capacitors
(2) 100. micro Farads electrolytic polorized capacitors
(4) pin connectors for the circut board (to wrap the antenna wire around)
joule theif -
(1) ferrite ring
(1) 2n2222 (npn) or 3904
(1) 1k resistor
(1) led or leds

what im thinking is take the aircircut to power the joule thief so its free return on everything shy of buying the parts.

thoughts comments more then welcome ill post the pictures when i get everything done, even if this dosent work so well

[Pirate88179]

What do you mean by "air circuit"?  Are you talking about receiving rf from the air?  The JT circuit is a good booster but the energy needs to be there in the first place.  Supercaps can help to exploit this but still, you need more than micro volts to get it going.

If I do not understand what an air circuit is then, I am sorry.  I would love to learn.

Bill

[Mk1]

@all

Good luck ! I bet it won't be that hard...

http://amasci.com/tesla/tesceive.html

Mark

[stprue]

[A author=Pirate88179 link=topic=9131.msg240434#msg240434 date=1273127265]
What do you mean by "air circuit"?  Are you talking about receiving rf from the air?  The JT circuit is a good booster but the energy needs to be there in the first place.  Supercaps can help to exploit this but still, you need more than micro volts to get it going.

If I do not understand what an air circuit is then, I am sorry.  I would love to learn.

Bill
[/quote]

Bill check this out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnJFonvzr1E&feature=related

P.S. I have tried this but it didnt work.  The best I can do now is power leds the way I recently posted in th JT topic.

[the_big_m_in_ok]

virtualshogun said:

not sure how well this will work what power it will produce etc but the basic ideal an air circut with a joule thief bumping the end power up
...
(4) pin connectors for the circut board (to wrap the antenna wire around)
joule theif -
(1) ferrite ring
(1) 2n2222 (npn) or 3904
(1) 1k resistor
(1) led or leds

what im thinking is take the aircircut to power the joule thief so its free return on everything shy of buying the parts.

You said it would have an antenna, so I'm assuming a coax cable arrangement that's fairly long to very long?  Hasn't that been thought of already?  I'm pretty sure it's been done with earth batteries.
Then again, with the "air" circuit, are there to be air core, single layer coils?

--Lee