Joule Thief

[slayer007]

Also I didn't show the JT circuit.The one for this test was just a basic circuit.

I was just showing how the wires can off the cap to the JT circuit.

[xee2]

@ slayer007

Hmmmm...  What is resistance between the two earth grounds? Even if it is 1000 ohms the battery will charge the capacitor. The resistance will only slow the rate of charge. If your antenna ground is not connected to the earth, then this is requires more study.

[slayer007]

@ slayer007

Hmmmm...  What is resistance between the two earth grounds? Even if it is 1000 ohms the battery will charge the capacitor. The resistance will only slow the rate of charge. If your antenna ground is not connected to the earth, then this is requires more study.

The antenna is a metal shelf sitting on a concrete floor.
The other earth ground is a copper pipe 2' in the ground about 1' away from the garage.

[Pirate88179]

Gary:

I hope you decide to stay.  You are a valuable member of this group and have contributed a lot to everyone.  If you decide to go, you will be missed.

A tip in case you didn't know about it. (If you do and are using it already, ignore this)

Use Firefox for your browser (Mozilla) as this forum, and many other sites, are optimized to run on Firefox.  Then, get several add-ons, Ad-blocker, no script and downloadhelper.  These block the ads and pop-up windows that take up most of the time to load a page.  Even with my DSL pages here and elsewhere were taking like 30 seconds to load, and sometimes (like you said) never finished loading.  Now, they load in less than 2 seconds.  I know you are using dial-up and, God help you.  But if you are not using Firefox, switching over, which is really easy and fast, will greatly speed up all of your page loading times.  My Youtube videos load about 5 times as fast with Firefox as they did with ie.

Just some thoughts.

I hope you remain with us here.

Bil

[xee2]

@ slayer007

So is this your circuit (without LED and diodes)?