Joule Thief

[Mk1]

@all

Most here have made the bedini battery charger, i made mine from a big pc fan.
It has 2 neo disc with 5  pc hd neo magnets in , For generating some more juice,You can see the over all design. When completed it will have 30 of those gray coil , they give me 12 volts each with a 9 volts battery , and about 24volts with a 12 volt load.Now this is not overunity , but i did not finish it. I also found this really nice core for a custom version.

@jim , I am currently training this one for you, its not going well.

[Pirate88179]

My video of modified Fuji AA circuit lighting 200 leds.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co4WsKOcJk0

@ MK1:

I too have been working on a Bedini, but not lately, but mine looks nothing like yours man!!!  That thing is a Bedini on steroids!  Nice cat there and yes, I am sure Jim could use one.  In the video posted above, you can see me almost fall over while filming because my highly trained attack cat decided she wanted to jump onto the table (her table) while my Fuji circuit was energized.  since this was not a good idea and she does not really understand all that much about electricity, I decided to intervene.  Of course when she got mad and raced into the other room, I almost stepped on her and just about fell over.  She is 15+ years old and still acts like a kitten when she is not sleeping.

I said from the begining that when/if we combine the JT with Bedini/earth battery/solar/etc. who the heck knows what will happen?

Very nice motor man.

Bill

[WilbyInebriated]

@all

Most here have made the bedini battery charger, i made mine from a big pc fan.
It has 2 neo disc with 5  pc hd neo magnets in , For generating some more juice,You can see the over all design. When completed it will have 30 of those gray coil , they give me 12 volts each with a 9 volts battery , and about 24volts with a 12 volt load.Now this is not overunity , but i did not finish it. I also found this really nice core for a custom version.

@jim , I am currently training this one for you, its not going well.

nice energizer mark! that is an interesting geometry, hope you keep us up to date on its progress

[timmy1729]

Well, I did some playing around yesterday to duplicate my best results so far. I wanted to make sure I wasn't getting my hard earned 3.2vdc by a mistake. I rewound my 1.125" toroid with stranded copper bifilar using wire out of a CAT5 cable. I hooked one wire to a 1K ohm resistor and the other to a TIP120 Darlington transistor. I ran a germanium diode up to the LED, put a 10v  2200uF cap across the LED, and hooked the LED to the emitter and soldered a little length of wire to go to the battery from the LED/emitter connection.
I got:
3.2vdc
0.002vac
104mA

I added another 10v 2200uF cap in parallel and got nothing. It took away maybe 0.1mA but I didn't gain anything. Unless I understand less about caps than I thought I did, shouldn't that give me some kind of increase somewhere?

Anyway, using one cap and the exact same setup, I replaced the Darlington transistor with two 2N3904 transistors connected in a Darlington pair. The results with that were:
2.9vdc
.002 vac
115mA
measured after the cap on the + of the LED and on the connection of the LED and emitter.

when I measured across the collector  and - going to battery:
1.3vdc
.716vac
157mA

2 caps made no difference here either. I guess I thought that putting two of those caps in parallel would give me a boost somewhere. If anyone wants to give a quick explanation on why another 2200uF 10v cap did nothing for either setup, please do. I'm very curious.

@MK1
Are you all getting those higher voltages simply with the pickup coil through inductance or through the JT somewhere?

Sorry for such a messy post. It's been a LONG day.

[electricme]

@ all
A hello to the new posters, comeon board chaps.

OK jim here, I have read all the posts, they are very outstanding, theres a jewell box of information here now.
On late sat night I came across some very interresting info, but got to look it up again to make sure, but the gist of it is this.

Torrids - primary, 1 volt = 1 turn, secondaries can be many turns.
There is a fellow on a web forum in australia, need to get in touch with him personally to see if he can give me more info, he is a gooroo on torrids it seems.

Thanks to MK1
I noticed Hans posts, thanks hans.

Right, first off, thanks to everyone who sent me the most kind words regarding my recient illness, brief as it was, the heeps of leg pulling, wonderful, I enjoyed it immensly, you all are really a pritty good bunch of boys and girls.

Jeanna, de mice are not winning, dey snuckup and hit me from behind ha ha.
I'm winning da war (faith)

Seriously, I know you are all curious, so I will briefly explain, I have Diverticulitis, which means somehow or other small grapefruit size "out-pouches" formed on the "outside" of my colyn wall. Don't know how it happens, but it did, and if the small open hole between bowel and out-pouch gets blocked, it builds pressure, causes discomfort, then within hours one suffers the most agonizeing pain as poison poors into the bowel
I don't remember the trip to hosp, I was shivering as I went into toxic shock.

For instance I was posting on the PC, turned it off, had a shower about 12.30AM, by 3am I'm crook, by 5am im reall crook, water pooring from my forehead like rain drops, PJ top soaked, head fainting, treatment 9 injections pain killers, in 3 days. Drs wanted me to have a "silver stallion" colonoscopy, boy Im brave posting this but it is necessary, because I discovered there is a great percentage of population who are getting about who don't know they have it.

This makes appendicitis be put in the fun bag of tricks.
Im still very sore, and to boot they sent me outa hospital with the drip still attatched in my arm.
Well to be fair, the nursing staff were so busy with one critically ill chap in a bad way all night next to me, then there was lights and alarms  going on and off all night long, this morning people being prepd for surgery, an older chap being transferred from hosp to hosp, and me mixed up with it all in the middle.

The Doc said go home jim, the daughter turned up, I got dressed, I forgot about the drip needle stuck in my left elbow, as the staff had, and I walked out in socks with it in plane site for all to see and no-one saw it.
No worries, Its all fixed up, the staff will be told to keep their end in order (they were just overun on their feet, as I said to matron).

see http://www.gesa.org.au/leaflets/diverticulitis.cfm  I accidently put a .com here when it hasnt got one

@ bill thanks for noticing I had not been here a while, I was thinking when was someone going to miss me.
Now I gota rest up a bit, I still sore.

Yep I had a little fun to day lol
PS thanks for pulling my leg, loved it.

jim