Joule Thief

[nievesoliveras]

This guy has some pretty cool videos!!

I will try to watch some.

[Artic_Knight]

has anyone considered that a true origional joule thief makes use of a rf choke? i was looking at chokes and noticed you can actually use them in a variety of ways with a variety of coil configurations. what interests me most is that they made note of rf interference in power lines. well what about tapping that rf interfearence for some free energy from the worlds largest antenna? 

theoretically you would need a choke that only allows frequencies out of the 60hz range to pass or a circuit. then seperate the hot and neutral wires going into your fuse/breaker box and wrap a reciever around one wire (optionally a second reciever could be made for the other wire) then sit back and enjoy the ride.

@ Bill
we once played with the earth batteries (you may even still use it) remember that story about a ground connection every i dont know 100 some odd feet or something? and how each additionall ground added to the power? think of all the houses! and ground taps!  i dont know how the telephone company has their equipment rigged but i think they actually have circuit boxes that would have rf chokes in them so thats probobly not an option. maybe the plumbing pipes? but now adays they are plastic atleast in my area they are.

i once heard a story of a farmer who placed a box under a high voltage transmission line, the box was not attached to anything and still gathered enough power to run a farm as the story goes.

ok so this is off topic from the joule, if anyone wants to persue it further we could start a seperate thread.

just a thought.

[zhak]

good all day

nievesoliveras

this experience very quickly drain the battery AA.
person named Igor, can always help to reproduce the circuit

he will not accept the name thief joule, its products under the brand tros, but he does not deny that this one too

[nievesoliveras]

@zhak

I was looking at tros videos and found three schematics. I will post them for everybody.

Jesus

[freepow]

   @ Jeanna,  I am waiting on a heap of superbright 5mm LED's from overseas, Is it possible to light say
                     12-18 LED's in series with 7-10 spiky volts per LED with a total current draw from a
                     JT of 5-25 mA's  and all LED's lit fully bright ?