Joule Thief

[jeanna]

Hi and good night everyone,
I got to page 304 I think. so it will be a while more. I just want to add a couple of comments.
@Goat. I love the fuji circuit but it is a manufactured product. and as good as it is, it seems to change a lot over time. we kind of went over this already. IT IS A REALLY GOOD WAY TO LEARN WHAT IS NEEDED IN A DESIGN OF OUR OWN.

@GADGETMALL,
WOW, THAT CFL ON YOUR FUJI MOD IS BEAUTIFUL.

oops sorry about the caps.

@jim,
I used a ultrasonic device to keep the squirrels away. They had chewed through the eves in my house in Massachusetts, and were playing hockey with acorns in the space over my bedroom and under the 3rd floor space. No one could get in there and they chewed through any fixes that were added.
The supersonic device added to the 3rd floor room made them leave. ahh I could sleep again!
You could try it on your mice. It was a higher pitch than my ears could hear so it won't bother you.

MK1,
I am really interested in going the mag amp route. I think this is the real answer since it won't be vulnerable to overvoltage destruction as the silicon transistors are.
Not only that it is what I think the guys in the last century were doing/using and calling make and break.
I have copied the butler information. Have you made any progress? I have only gotten to page 304. If you added info nevermind, but if not, I would really love to hear about this.

There is more, but I forget.

@Bill,
Good idea to make a thread that just has the pics and the circuits.

BB tomorrow,

jeanna

[Mk1]

@jeanna

Welcome back!

Lets say i did not have that much time lately but its all going good, my project tonight is a mk8 , so 16 X 27 turns lol, i usually get 100 volts from about 22-24 turns , i want to to a cfl test , sine i got a neon full on , from a button cell on my mk2 , i tough cfl time good willing.


Btw , me and gadget , got into a argument , we bought apologized , and are good friend now , so don't worry about it !

Mark

@pirate

Real good idea , you got there !

[Pirate88179]

@ Jeanna and MK1:

Thank you very much.  I was trying to think of a way to get folks the info they need without reading through all of our posts.  I, myself, have seen a posted schematic, then order the parts online to replicate and about a week later when the parts came in, I found myself searching through about 28 pages of posts to find the schematic of what I was wanting to replicate when I ordered the parts.  This will take time to do and even more time to go back and correct everything, but I feel it will be worth it.

As Paul did, please contact me as I am starting at the beginning of the topic and if I post a drawing that has since been revised or updated, let me know and I will make corrections.  As a matter of fact, I saw what Paul was trying to do with his topics and it reminded me of something I thought of doing with the earth battery topic long ago, but just never got around to doing.  Our great topic here has so many posts, it is hard for us active posters to keep up much less someone new coming into our topic for the first time.  Most of the new folks ask..."How can I build a Joule Thief?"  and we answer, well....it was posted way back somewhere....find the schematics and build it.  Hopefully, my efforts will help this a little.

It is going to take a while and I may not have all that much time all of the time.  Knowing you guys, by the time I get "done"  there will be another 50 drawings to post up over there, ha ha.  But, that's ok.

Also, please let me know either here, or via im if I credit someone incorrectly, or not at all for one of their drawings.  I really respect everyone's ideas and input and I want them to receive the credit they deserve for their work so, if I get this wrong, it will not be an insult to me for you to correct me.  Any ideas anyone has to improve the data posting topic, please tell me.

Thanks again to everyone here that has made our topic so interesting and worth participating in.

Once again, welcome back Jeanna!

Bill

[Goat]

@ Pirate...Bravo and a big thank you 

If we can get everyone to help you move the most recent circuits to the beginning of the thread it would get everyone up to speed that much faster, good move.

Regards,
Paul

[Pirate88179]

@ Paul:

You may be correct.  I was doing them in the order they appeared originally but, maybe I should start at the end and work backwards like you suggest.  Well, I did post Gadgetmall's Fuji mod in the beginning and then went in chronological order.

This is a good suggestion and at a good time.  It would be hard to reverse all of this once it was nearly done, ha ha.  I will see what I can do.  Thank you for your idea, it is a good one.

Bill