Joule Thief

[drodenbe]

Ya know I really don't know how you can construe from my last post that I am angry, impatient, needing recognition or anything else!  I have been in this business for over 40 years I am over 60years old.  I have been a television tech. a design consultant. a design Eng. for a well known Meter design company,  I have been a Plant Controls Eng. for 22 years.  In the last 6 years I have wound some 2 to 3 thousand feet of wire in some 5 to 600 coils.  Have I done extensive testing? Yes I have!  I have survived days at a time with no more that 2-3 hours of sleep. In saying all this I just want you to know that I just didn't one day wake up and go to my local radio shack and pick up a electronics kit and put it together and then wound a coil and thought... Look here I have free energy!  I am going to get on one of those.... what do you call it..... oh I know a forum and show every one what a great inventor I am.  I am not angry and I don't really care if you build this or not.  I bowed out, out of respect for the rest of you.  I can't believe you read anything else in what I posted.  From what you have just said you sound like the type that only sets around and lets everyone else do the work.  I don't have to prove anything to anyone else but myself.  I have done the tests I have it working.  I have the instruments to make accurate measurements.  I did not do a silent point at the parts video.  I gave you a circuit a coil specification and it was up to you to build the thing.  Do You have any Idea how may failed youtube projects my friend and I have built?  Hundreds.  We built the stuff and decided for ourselves if it work or not.  I didn't set around complaining that the video and information sucked which in most cases It did!  I had more information that my friend and I found out that will make it repeatable.  But if I post it, It will take me another week to prove I am not pulling your leg.  So build the thing and you will have to do as I have done to get a working device.  and that is build some 500 coils and maybe you will find it.  That is what my friend and I did.  He has as much experience as I have . He is a design Eng. and has worked in a lab environment for industry for some 40 years.  So in closing the only thing I am guilty of is being naive about the forum community.   As I said in the beginning.  I may make some mistakes.  I did and you as well!  I will now go back to my lab and let you guys figure this out your for selves.  Ps.  Not angry in the least.  Now I know why Dr. Stiffler got out!  Don't need the drama! 

[totoalas]

  Totoalas:
   Is this the same device that burnt out the components and you mentioned that you were not going to further experiment with it? Or not?

This fly swatter cost me hkd 35 dollars, I left the spark gap shorted while charging the batteries in 220 v ac outlet.....but with proper care i think the circuit is fine  .. usually only the batteries easily get busted.....( this is usually a battery/ 220v v ac operated)
see if i can buy the battery operated one in zuhai china this Saturday........
Maybe someone can make the 12 v   circuit so we explore further....  but from this alone using solar will be an advantage for night time charging
lots of possibilities
totoalas

[totoalas]

Ya know I really don't know how you can construe from my last post that I am angry, impatient, needing recognition or anything else!  I have been in this business for over 40 years I am over 60years old.  I have been a television tech. a design consultant. a design Eng. for a well known Meter design company,  I have been a Plant Controls Eng. for 22 years.  In the last 6 years I have wound some 2 to 3 thousand feet of wire in some 5 to 600 coils.  Have I done extensive testing? Yes I have!  I have survived days at a time with no more that 2-3 hours of sleep. In saying all this I just want you to know that I just didn't one day wake up and go to my local radio shack and pick up a electronics kit and put it together and then wound a coil and thought... Look here I have free energy!  I am going to get on one of those.... what do you call it..... oh I know a forum and show every one what a great inventor I am.  I am not angry and I don't really care if you build this or not.  I bowed out, out of respect for the rest of you.  I can't believe you read anything else in what I posted.  From what you have just said you sound like the type that only sets around and lets everyone else do the work.  I don't have to prove anything to anyone else but myself.  I have done the tests I have it working.  I have the instruments to make accurate measurements.  I did not do a silent point at the parts video.  I gave you a circuit a coil specification and it was up to you to build the thing.  Do You have any Idea how may failed youtube projects my friend and I have built?  Hundreds.  We built the stuff and decided for ourselves if it work or not.  I didn't set around complaining that the video and information sucked which in most cases It did!  I had more information that my friend and I found out that will make it repeatable.  But if I post it, It will take me another week to prove I am not pulling your leg.  So build the thing and you will have to do as I have done to get a working device.  and that is build some 500 coils and maybe you will find it.  That is what my friend and I did.  He has as much experience as I have . He is a design Eng. and has worked in a lab environment for industry for some 40 years.  So in closing the only thing I am guilty of is being naive about the forum community.   As I said in the beginning.  I may make some mistakes.  I did and you as well!  I will now go back to my lab and let you guys figure this out your for selves.  Ps.  Not angry in the least.  Now I know why Dr. Stiffler got out!  Don't need the drama!

drodenbe
I admire your skills and compassion, we are almost in same situation as yours....  my 3 years experience in the community had built my totoalas brand of pride in success or failures ive had and shared....
just continue to see peek observe and come along as we are all in one for having one objective    Not so  FREE ENERGY  on our home turf....
When opportunity comes when I visit my friends and relatives in remote mountains... I bring along my replications to ease out their longing for Light , power fo a simple radio and thats it   . thats how simple life is in the Philippines
If ever you want to share more   ..... please do so   
thanks
totoalas
the three yellow dots under my handle is my hard earned contribution   thanks to the OU team

[Rfacts]

Why does it take so long to get some messages approved for posting on this forum?  As of this time it has been about 30 hours since I posted a message to drodenbe, it was assigned post#16098 but it is displayed to me as awaiting approval from moderator.  Numerous other messages have been publicly posted while mine awaits approval?  I had spent some time and effort reviewing and transcribing drodenbe's schematic notes and coil specs and it would have let him know that others are interested and posting but too late now.

[conradelektro]

The test from my  Reply #16098 (the photo with the scope shots) lost some 10 mV battery Voltage over night, but I leave it running till the battery is in its nominal range below 1.2 V.

I set up the Kacher (well, a Kacher is a JT with a big coil) and it is running at a supply Voltage as low as 1 V.

I put a 1.2 V Ni MH AA battery inside the coil and we will see.

The AV plug (blue LED) has a short wire hanging into the coil and is not connected to the circuit. The LED glows down to a supply Voltage of 1 Volt.

Power draw is about 5 mA at 1.2 V (over a 1 Ohm shunt at the plus pole of the battery) and the circuit swings at about 1.3 MHz.

I will leave it running till tomorrow and then I will try some steel sheet over the battery which will be connected to the high output of the 160 turn coil.

Greetings, Conrad

P.S.: I probably will never post again because you are such bad and dramatic people and because I have 150 year experience and because you do not love me.