Joule Thief

[innovation_station]

thank you gary ....




awesome job   

we can do a few things now ...  i reccomend a neo zap from the out of that mot to the input of another to amp the effect a neo zap spark gap should work well



ist

[electricme]

@Jadaro2600

I made a series of leds light up without connecting the end to anything, I noticed this last night when I was putting the thing together during a power outage.

It's performing similarly to the florotubes I see here on this page.

Has anyone run that loose connection to ground to see what happens?  brighter or dimmer?

Nice work, lightning up the LEDs by just 1 connection.

Give this a thought, when you see a tesla coil fire and all the lightning discharges appears, the lightning that goes into the sky seems to peter out without grounding, where or what does it make contact with to do it?

does it attatch itself at the aeather? I think so

I think this is what is hapenning with single wire JT setups, but we dont make the lightning, lol

jim

[WilbyInebriated]

jeanna
have a look at the transformers at the top of this page
http://www.amazing1.com/transformers.htm

notice there are no toroids. 

[resonanceman]

thank you gary ....




awesome job   

we can do a few things now ...  i reccomend a neo zap from the out of that mot to the input of another to amp the effect a neo zap spark gap should work well



ist

IST

If I remember  right  your Neo Zap is  a spark  gap  with one of   sides  of the gap  a Neo  magnet

It  will take a while  to get  another  MOT ....... I have  2  possible  doner microwaves ......

I have not taken them  apart because they both still work .


I can see how  adding another MOT  would raise the voltage .........but will it  add more power ?   
At this  point  I would rather have more power  and  lower  voltage .......like 12 V

I can already get a 1/8 in spark  with this setup
I  do not want to  try to  use a volt meter on it .......I  noticed  a ticking sound   when I had my meter hooked up  to it  ( and hit resonance ) ....... it was arcing somewhere in the meter .
I think the meter is OK .....but I don't want to risk  burning it out

gary   

[stprue]

I made a bunch of tests at xee's request and because I thought it would be interesting myself.
I hadn't found any advantage either for a long time.

What I decided in the end was that it had to do with the range of the system and the size of the cap, more than anything.

I usually only start to try them when the system seems really off. Sometimes it really helps, but if the volts usually go down peak to peak. after I add the cap of any size... until I get one that is perfect.

A couple of times, when I was testing a lot of these,  the whole thing suddenly began to take off.

The resistor is parallel to the cap which means they could literally be sharing the same pin connection.

Does that help?

jeanna
edit
How many turns do you have on the jt and the secondary?
If you have 900v rectified, that is probably like my 450v peak to peak, isn't it?
Either way especially if you have 900 volts you are doing well.

Are you trying to light a tube and cannot?

Yes this helps, thank you...