Joule Thief

[electricme]

@IST  lol

and keep your fingers back!!   lol

ist!

jim

[electricme]

@Xee2
To make the neon brighter

Well, no big surprise, but the last circuit I posted with R=20 will light a 4 watt tube very dimly with only one power lead connected to the pickup coil. Also lights neon with only one lead to pickup coil.

Raid the parlor, grab about 4 - 6 ft of alfoil and stick the "free" end to the sheet of alfoil, then lift the alfoil as high as you can in the aeither.

See if the neon gets brighter the higher you push up the alfoil.
jim

[altrez]

Fabulous!

The reason I opened the ac thread next door is to explore how to set up this jt to make usable ac power. The 2 threads next door to each other ought to make it easy to have the idea feed for everyone in all directions.

We have just begun.
Did your EE friend push you hard last week?
We are charting new territory and that is never really fast or easy.(But it is always fun.)

I appreciate the idea of well documented.
I have been trying to do that too.

good stuff.

jeanna

Yeah he did push me really hard and made me question a bunch of things. And its really hard to fight his logic when he has text books from the University to back everything he says up.

And he can prove everything he says with simple experiments. I just want to have something that I can bulid that will at least prove there is other energy out in the void that can be tapped.

-Altrez

[altrez]

You are missing the Point of this . a 20 watt rating is the filament  wattage not the light output . 20 watts is what it takes for the HEATERS on the bulb . we dont use HEATERS with JT AC . We ionize the gas without Heating it . there for we can light a so called "20 watt" floro because the jt will make the gas glow and emmit UV and the light will come from the Florescence coating on the inside of the tube . we don't need WATTS to do this . we need VOLTAGE to Make the GAS IN THE TUBE IONIZE therefor emmiting UV .
Gadget

Wow I understand now. I was totally missing the point! It makes so much more sense now.

THANK YOU!

-Altrez

[altrez]

Try an earth battery, or 2 or 3.  This is totally free and clean energy.  All of the ones I have been working with so far are very, very small ones...but they still work.  if I had access to grant money, I could run my house from these alone, I am convinced of it.  Of course, I would also add solar and wind just because they are there, and I can sell the extra power back to the electric company at retail prices, which is the law here in Kentucky.  One could even make a power farm using all of these techniques and make a good living making free energy for folks.  It would all have to be scaled up of course, which I believe is totally possible from what I have observed in my experiments.

And yes, harnessing the power in a tornado would be very good as well.  That may be a few years off however, ha ha.

Bill

Hey Bill,

I live in Kentucky as well I plan to order an earth battery kit from Gadget just as soon as I can get some extra cash. My daughter needed braces and well they do not come cheap.

-Altrez