Joule Thief

[dasimpson]

this is strange last night i was working with my 20mm line filter from a psu with 20 leds in parallel and i was drawing 30ma
with my 25mm one i was pulling 40ma

well just tested again and well the 20mm one is runing at 60ma and the 25mm is running at 70 ma everything is exactly the same as last night but the current draw seems to have nearly doubled

any idea why?

[NickZ]

   Dasimpson:
   Using the right solar panel won't need the capacitor to bump up its low output. Current is Important, also. If you have the right panel even the Jt is not needed. But, I'm still interested in getting the Captret to light the leds for free, without needing anything else, like batteries.
  Solar panels last forever, not so with the batteries or caps, the more they work the worse they get, and they are also very delicate to being constantly recharged or overcharged.
  I think this may all be going towards the Joule Ringer technologies, which appears to use caps as if they were batteries. How it recharges or feeds itself back is key that will open that door.

[dasimpson]

   Dasimpson:
   Using the right solar panel won't need the capacitor to bump up its low output. Current is Important, also. If you have the right panel even the Jt is not needed. But, I'm still interested in getting the Captret to light the leds for free, without needing anything else, like batteries.
  Solar panels last forever, not so with the batteries or caps, the more they work the worse they get, and they are also very delicate to being constantly recharged or overcharged.
  I think this may all be going towards the Joule Ringer technologies, which appears to use caps as if they were batteries. How it recharges or feeds itself back is key that will open that door.

the thing is a solar panel is ok but we have to have some way to store the power caps do seem the better way but they are so danm exspensive over batterys and dont have there capacity so until price drops were kind of stuck lol

and btw the solar panels dont last for ever the sun dose in the end destroy them

[NickZ]

   @ All:
   Possibly what is needed is to make our own battery-capacitors that are to be used for our circuits, since buying them is expensive, and the technology does not seam very complicated. So why are they expensive???  We're getting had.
  I was hoping the the TPU would provide some juice without batteries, but...  I guess we're not there, yet. Solar panels are there, and are still cheaper than any other way to go, so far.
  If the Captret or Joule Ringer system can be used with a small battery and solar panel set up,  that seams like the way to go. As not all of us are able to replicate the Joule Ringer lighting the CFL on just caps, as LaserSabler has done. In anycase,  he can't get it to work for over an hour,  yet...

[dasimpson]

   @ All:
   Possibly what is needed is to make our own battery-capacitors that are to be used for our circuits, since buying them is expensive, and the technology does not seam very complicated. So why are they expensive???  We're getting had.
  I was hoping the the TPU would provide some juice without batteries, but...  I guess we're not there, yet. Solar panels are there, and are still cheaper than any other way to go, so far.
  If the Captret or Joule Ringer system can be used with a small battery and solar panel set up,  that seams like the way to go. As not all of us are able to replicate the Joule Ringer lighting the CFL on just caps, as LaserSabler has done. In anycase,  he can't get it to work for over an hour,  yet...

i have been using a small solar panel to keep my expementing batterys charged for a long while just the waether isent upto doing that much now i am seeing about 1.1ma were i was seing 20 to 40 ma and when all panels hoked up anything from 10 ma to an amp but sun and waether dosent work to well so i tulk an old pc fan apart and made a turbine out of it that is enogth to keep the current up but not the voltage so i run to of them that seems to work good so far
the light in the small room was put in there for when the gf grandkids stay one of them is scared of the dark what i did was build a gt and light detection unit for the solar panel and just wired the tubine to the battery after the bdridge cap etc seems to do ok but i need to raise the turbine to my roof to get the wind of all directions