Joule Thief

[gadgetmall]

Sound like great progress gadget.  I will keep my fingers crossed on it working for the lower capacity supercaps.  I have some 10F 2.7v maxcaps so if it works I will relpicate.

Again, great work.

P.S. Do you have any pics?

Well i have a mess and a slow connection but i will take the time to upload . here is a picture of my setup among1000's of parts and stuff. this is a picture of the volts off the run cap charged yesterday .it is charging the other 650 cap on the left . the leds are on the bottom right between the red meter lead.i forgot to shine them up but they are bright. theres the toroid and the tiny transistor and pot . i had to drop the resolution . it looks grainy
    the Scap setup is dying out but still lighting an led so i'll wait until it stops lighting to give the results of Experiment 3




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[Pirate88179]

IST:

Thank you.  I really believe that it will work using a supercap as the power source.  Unlike a battery, it should keep the output steady at a constant volt reading as it discharges.  As well all know, batteries go down 1.5 volts...1.4 volts...etc.

This should mean, tune for resonance once and then let it run.

Bill

[gadgetmall]

Well Experiment 3 is finished . the run cap stopped at 0.521 volts thus the silicon 2n2222a limits . the charge cap reached 1.015 volts . So conclusion is a "supercap " is not the same as an Ultracap and wont work for this experiment with the standard Jt . It might work if i wind another toroid with MORE windings so to increase the time it ran . i don't know . more test on the tiny S caps are needed but it appears in this setup NO they do not reach Over the Unity of the run cap nor does it reach Unity either .Most of you have Supercaps and you can verify my findings with these .

@ Pirate Congrats on your Thread hitting 1000 PAGES !!! It will now take months to read this entire Thread  I am all for another thread SSJT . This is getting Big time now that i am producing HEAT and Light from a single cell . heck now that you know we can run Nichrome Elements i bet you anything you  can so the same from your power from the Earth Battery . 4 sure . Iwas Just repeating this experiment for ist and of coarse By accident discovered HEAT !! FIRE  and LIGHT at the same time .. ) More later stay Tuned Gang!  Someone replicate this to Double Confirm Please . 


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[jeanna]

... I discharged it to 1 volt using a small Nicrome heater element which glowed brightly for 4 and a half minutes before the cap reached 1 volt . I lit a cig with it and it was HOT!!!!!!!!! I could have tripled the Nichrome wire coil and got about 15 minutes short before i hit one volt and that my friends is pure AMPS .I may be the First one in history to actually make a heater from a Jt and a BCap . running from an aa battery :
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SOMEONE replicate this Please . below is the Diagram for the AA setup . It also puts an excess voltage out on the secondary and provides Light and Heat .I am going to improve the JT circuit with bigger torroids and more wire soon . All 1 volt system

Gadget

Gadget, this is brilliant!

I want to replicate this, of course.
Thank you for the description and the drawing.

Now, the question is what is nichrome wire? and mostly, WHERE do I find it?
Is it from an old heater from the thrift store?

Bravo and
thank you,

jeanna

[stprue]

Well Experiment 3 is finished . the run cap stopped at 0.521 volts thus the silicon 2n2222a limits . the charge cap reached 1.015 volts . So conclusion is a "supercap " is not the same as an Ultracap and wont work for this experiment with the standard Jt . It might work if i wind another toroid with MORE windings so to increase the time it ran . i don't know . more test on the tiny S caps are needed but it appears in this setup NO they do not reach Over the Unity of the run cap nor does it reach Unity either .

@ Pirate Congrats on your Thread hitting 1000 PAGES !!! It will now take months to read this entire Thread  I am all for another thread SSJT . This is getting Big time now that i am producing HEAT and Light from a single cell . heck now that you know we can run Nichrome Elements i bet you anything you  can so the same from your power from the Earth Battery . 4 sure . Iwas Just repeating this experiment for ist and of coarse By accident discovered HEAT !! FIRE  and LIGHT at the same time .. ) More later stay Tuned Gang!  Someone replicate this to Double Confirm Please . 


Gadget

Thanks for the info's and the time it took to upload the pic