Joule Thief

[Pirate88179]

Here is my Lidmotor Jeanna Light replication video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m3sTtDbrPI

I finally got a video made.  This coil really puts out.

Bill

[jeanna]

5 stars Bill.

I want to clarify our terms once.
The 3T and the 13T are both the primary and the 330T is the pick up aka secondary.
It seems really odd when the 2 primary wires are separated so far as you made them but this is the way they are. There are so many variations!

Great looking lamp,

jeanna

[xee2]

5 stars Bill.

I want to clarify our terms once.
The 3T and the 13T are both the primary and the 330T is the pick up aka secondary.
It seems really odd when the 2 primary wires are separated so far as you made them but this is the way they are. There are so many variations!

Great looking lamp,

jeanna

I recommend using: base coil, collector coil, and pickup coil.

[Pirate88179]

Jeanna:

Thank you very much.  What do you think about XEE2's terminology recommendations?  That makes sense to me.  Since this is my first real multiple winding JT project I have no say in it one way or the other. (You have been telling me to make one for a while now, ha ha)  It just didn't make sense to me in my head UNTIL I could look at it in my hands...now I get it.  For example, I tried testing the 330 turn output and realized there is no positive or negative as it is just one big loop of wire and it is not grounded to anything at all.  I had to see that to get it.  I know you guys knew this stuff a long time ago, I am still playing catch-up.

XEE2:

That makes sense to me.

Bill

[jeanna]

I have always thought that xee2's term suggestions were great, and I use them.
Sometimes for the sake of others, I will use the bifilar primary term.
Others who need an explanation in the beginning do not always follow since bifilar and primary are used outside our group, so anyway, yes, I like xee2's terms.

jeanna