Joule Thief

[stprue]

Oh good.
If you can straighten out some of those wires it would help me see what connects to where.
I can't do what I am asking you to do, but I am asking anyway. 

thank you,
nice work,

jeanna

Trust me...there is too much stuff going on in this build for me too.  I have no alligator clip wires left but I'm going to buy some more next week.

I also want to try 26gage wire.  If I can make the winds/coils smaller then I can fit lots and feed a lot back through the circute....more bridges, wires, caps and I need to find the right caps too.

[WilbyInebriated]

i haven't really wanted to touch this, but i think i am going to give it a shot. we have a good group here with respect to discussion (pun intended). so here it goes...

lot of talk lately of tesla, spark gaps, etc.
in a spark gap i see light and heat (among other things). in this case i think, light is what we want, let's ignore the heat for the moment 
is the intent to replace the light of the led with the light of the spark gap?

now to the real core of my questions and this might be opening a can of worms, if so my apologies in advance.
does a spark gap waste or entrain?

[stprue]

@all

Speaking of spark gap you need 700 v for 1mm gap.

http://users.beotel.net/~gmarjanovic/gwmm.html

Also http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/mmcgen.htm

I posted that like 800 pages back , but now it should make more sense , this will work nicely with a toroid.

Mark

Mark have you tried the JNL stuff on this link?

[innovation_station]

@ stpure..

im useing 100nf 250v non polorized caps ... ill take a cupple REAL CLEAR PICTURES OF MY NEW OLD UNIT ..

it is my 3 turn 3 phase 2 freq unit im useing db107 x3 60 turns goldmine unit and 3 100nf 250v caps then 3 4004 diodes .. then it can go to the cascades ..

cold sounds safer .. 

william

ill add a pic once it is finished  just 1 freq and npn for now i dont want to confuse anyone ...

just thought i would update on my chargeing of the 12 v battery im up to 9.68vdc in my battery

and it seams my meter on the cap was low thats the only reason i could see a back up of power .. as i changed the battery in the volt meter it now reads the same as the other one ... it has not drained much power from the aa at all as im still reading when i disconnect the chargeing battery ..  277.2 vdc ...

it would read 20 volts or 40 there bouts if it was compleatly dead the driveing battery

got me lots of push left in the battery .. yet..

[stprue]

@ stpure..

im useing 100nf 250v non polorized caps ... ill take a cupple REAL CLEAR PICTURES OF MY NEW OLD UNIT ..

it is my 3 turn 3 phase 2 freq unit im useing db107 x3 60 turns goldmine unit and 3 100nf 250v caps then 3 4004 diodes .. then it can go to the cascades ..

cold sounds safer .. 

william

ill add a pic once it is finished  just 1 freq and npn for now i dont want to confuse anyone ...

Cool! can't wait to see the pic.  My last test used a mish-mash of caps but there must be some science to it because the results improved.  Instead of regular diodes I used led..showed some skin effect too.  I think...