Joule Thief

[gadgetmall]

HEy NickZ you are a better reader than i am . I missed a whole lot of pages in the years . and i tell you every time i say 101% i duck and feel like i have become a target . Soo . In order to replicate some of the unique circuits i am working hard on someone elses claim . As soon as i get it running this time i will pay attention and document what i did and share it . I want to make darn sure you and everyone can do it .
I also like the sec .s i got a few Coils like u got and a couple of sec18's and a bunch of slayer exciters the size of stamp.I like em too., The only thing i have not found a use for them yet and thats where i am watching your experiments.I need to step up from 1.2 v to 12 on them . My first sec18 i blew the fuse track messing with 12v so i began running them on 1.2 . but the effect is weak so we will see on those . I like your work . Please keep at it . I assume you are trying some feedback on your Source or are you strictly going for light ?

[gadgetmall]

Nickz found the vid of my selfrunner . It is now encased in Lucite and is a gift i gave my Mom and dad . They have it on their mantel running . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLI0tDd7NnY
and part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVmwc9OsyB0
Now you may not think the brightness is great on three leds but they will let you see in total darkness .it's not a fake .
And if you can't believe what you see it really doesn't matter to me anymore . I don't care about proving it . What matters is i built it and it does what it does and i loved it so much i gave it to the ones who made me to show them what i did because Of them . Mom and Dad . So in mine and their eyes it is a real tangible feasible looping light.

Gadget

[NickZ]

  Gadgetmall:
   Ok, thanks for finding and posting the links.
   Maybe the thing to do is to continue looking into this further. By possibly re- checking the current voltages, and current that is being used by the device, posting the circuit used, and even an update on how the device is working now, after two months. If it still exists. We really need to get this down.
    Robbie (kooler) mentioned that he used non-rechargeable batteries, and that after 5 and a half months, the batteries leaked, possibly from constant self charging.  But, that was all that was to be known of those two circuits, which he says he then dismantled. He also attributed the special component that made the circuit different, to a process that he learned from an "old guy" that told him how to take the glass diodes and bake them to change their characteristics.  If you can call him, and find out more, I think that it would help to solve the mistery. As no one else that I know of has been able to replicate his results, including myself. I did not use "special diodes" though.
   
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[gadgetmall]

Nickz years ago man . and it's at moms . It's been posted and explained and its in this thread . somewhere . yes its still going . no measurements Now  its completely out of the question . LUCITE!and it has NIMH batterys before it was sealed. I thought ahead on them because of all the leaks they did charging them with Bedini's and Jt's Yes they can be brought back and ran 20 or 30 times and some explode and pop out goo.I'm going to get him ! I know i'm old but Geeze...YEs we do use special Diodes and transistors sometimes .I explained the process years ago about baking electronics and using bariumT and radioactive Chromium .there is a surplus yard 2 miles from me and it's like a candy store to a baby . all that old neat military electronics stuff there for the pickin. It's all in Experimenting and finding that place no one has gone before . And so i hope you are a bit more hopeful as you see it has been done and will be again. .Also it's probably easier for me to do it all over again than hunt thru this thread . all i can help is search for the Letter E and O and U on the Board and maybe you will stumble on it .....one day 

Gadget

[kooler]

hey guys,
i have been looking for a replacement for the cooked diodes with no luck.. the diodes i cooked only worked that had Germanium in them..
but out of 25 diodes 2-3 may work at the 5-8 volt gap i was looking for..
but it's just like transistors you can buy 50 of them and 10 of them would perform far better than the rest..
and cores are the same.. i would order 12 cores and only use a couple of them.. cause they worked far greater than the others..
just remember that in the old days they doped diodes differently . some companys would use different p type impurities and the n type was Germanium so when you heat them to high temp the n-p separate a very small fraction and now it is worthless as a diode now but is a wicked very low volt sparkgap that rectified the energy at a cost less of the diode itself..
the reason i would use a cooked diode that worked in the 5-8 volt range was i could steal the energy being made by the circuit and not the battery..
i sure you have seen my cooked diodes in some of my videos.. i always put a small piece of blue heat shrink over the glass after i cook them so i dont confuse them with regular diodes..
robbie