Joule Thief

[jeanna]

Wow, thank you Sparks. Number 4 and 5 have all these toroids forming inside them!!

@ist,
Maybe the waist toroid on my hourglass should be wound like the one you have just made.
On these walter russell videos the toroid that forms appears to swirl around like the wires of your winding.
This is getting really exciting!
I will try that when the other half is finished. I plan to leave enough wire to wind the waist toroid with a bit more than just 4 turns.

Thank you everybody.

wow,

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I was inspired to make the conical joule thief because after I 'studied' the Nassim Haramein lectures and dvds I realized he was surely  right and I thought therefore that the double cone that meets at the center and grows outward from the center is the most probable form for the best output.
By just reflecting what nature does and making my next joule thief have those proportions and shapes, maybe I can get somewhere else!

The video number 5 shows all those cones and toroids moving forward in space... like around the edges of the rug, if you look at it the right way.

jeanna

yup ist... a very magic carpet ride.

[kooler]

sorry to bother you folks with this...
but tonight i was messing with my little strobe circuit or whatever you want to call it...
well i got to pulse in the high hz now but i cant get my hand held scope with in 2 foot close to it
its like it is giving off some crazy radio that messes with electronics
it just shows 5.31 khz and 80 volts with a half sine wave pos...
i'm using a 0.1 mfd cap now and it sounds kool if you run it thru a 1:1 toroid
it sounds like a hv transformer in a substation
my toroid was showing like 12 volts thru a bridge but there was alot sparks hooking a load to it
i reduced it down to 5 volts and thought... i will linked 6 of those 265000 mcd 100ma leds
up to it and boom there went 15 $.. so i cussed for 10 mins and walked away

any suggestions

oh .. if you guys try to build this dont touch the output...i bump my arm into it the other night
and got some burns..hahahaha

[jeanna]

... there went 15 $.. so i cussed for 10 mins and walked away

any suggestions

I am sorry about your lights, kooler.
You are in very good company. I mean why would you want to be the only one who didn't drop a bunch of dead leds down the trash? 

Suggestions?

What is your starting voltage?
Is it 1.2 volts?
Are you using a battery or a pulse generator connected to the wall?

Are those neons still in there?
use a fluoro tube?

only try with cheap leds?

Always use a resistor before you add a led? I don't but I think the problems you are having are why I stayed away from the spark making set up. I bought the ig coil, but never felt like risking my machines.

I am glad your scope is ok and it didn't get fried.

I made a comparison of dmm voltage to scope voltage and the dmm was usually down by one decimal place or more.
So, if the dmm said I had 5 volts I might have 75v or even more.

out of ideas,

jeanna

[Pirate88179]

kooler:

Jeanna is correct.  Most, if not all, of us have fried many leds.  Some good, expensive leds to be sure but, this is the cost of progress.  I thought I was "safe" putting 6 high output super bright leds in my circuit that should have only put out about 25 volts.  Well, my JT fried those suckers in about 15 seconds.  Man, the smell was terrible but they were very bright for a little bit though.  This was when I first got a clue that my digital meter was not to be trusted on the real output of the JT.

Now, I load them up with way more than they could possibly do and then, remove some and go down from there.  Still, I may end up frying some more before this is over.  Welcome to the fried LED club.  You are in good company.

Bill

[kooler]

i lit a 4 watt nite lite bulb with this for 5 seconds and then it lock down oscillation on the scr circuit so i unpluged my AA battery before it blew the scr
atleast i saved 0.49 cent....haha
as for the scope i cant get near the circuit to use it..
it starts to read it 2 feet away..weird