Joule Thief

[NickZ]

  Dave:
  We have tried to tell you that your invented circuit function just won't work the way that you have imagined that it will. There is NO stepping up of the current from this set up.
The two primaries that you are mentioning will NOT step up the current, only the voltage at the expense of the current.
Do you really think that what you are thinking of doing has never been done or tried before? Go for it then.  But, we tried to warn you.

[Dave45]

I know you sacrifice one at the expense of the other, I dont think this alone will go ou but I am working on a coil configuration that is interesting, will let you know if I get anything.

Im hard headed, have to try it myself 

hope all goes well with you and yours
dave

[SkyWatcher123]

Hi folks, Hi dave, have played with this flip flop circuit in the past, it works good.
Only way to know if your thinking is correct, is to test it, anything is possible.
Here is the thread that was started before.
http://www.energeticforum.com/renewable-energy/12438-simple-inverter.html
Also, it does work on 1.2 volts input.
peace love light
tyson

[NickZ]

  Skywatcher:
   Yes, I remember that video.  It got me to test my Joule Ringer running off of a couple of small 10v solar panels that I had it connected to. It played a boom box CD player pretty well. I was also surprised. And very useful too. It can also charge cell phones, AA batteries, and even 12v 4 to 7 amp hour batteries quite well, also. I should have made a video of it.
  Looks like your twin transistors circuit works well with those resistors that you used.
I don't use any resistors or any other other component than a TIP 3055 or similar  transistor. It only gets fairly hot when running incandescent bulbs, but works well with the small 7 watt incandescent bulbs, gutted CFL, and LED bulbs. The heat-sink helps.

  However it won't also step up the current, nor was that circuit designed to do that, if it did we'd all be home free by now.

  Here is a picture of my twin TIP 3055 transistor circuit, using no other components, running off of only 2 of those small solar panels, direct.

[Pirate88179]

Nick, Tyson:

Very well done.  I really enjoy seeing the efforts here to make more light using less energy.  The solar aspect also brings the "free" into free energy as well.

Here is a circuit I have been working on for some time.  It is still not done yet but, when completed, it will have a high voltage/high freq. output and it is tunable.  This will allow one to maintain the perfect resonance as the battery drains.  The transistor (FJD5553TM) is a new one from Fairchild (SMD) that should keep the circuit operating down below .2 volts and, it can handle a lot of power so it could be driven with 3 volts input no problem.  It also has ultra high switching speeds as well.

I will keep you guys posted.  It is getting harder to find the time to work on this stuff.

Bill