Gadgetmall's Fuji Mod light CFL from 1 AA/AAA for - 12 hrs + - Thread 2

[delta1]

Tried to delete previous oversize images, but to no avail. the instructions on this site on how to do it are very sketchy. Anyway here are the new smaller pictures. Photography by Bonnie.

[mscoffman]

Delta1,

Step II;

Think of forming a cube from five solar cells glued along their edges, active
side facing inward, in a shape of a cube with no top. Now glue four toothpicks
to the base of the lamps so that the glass bulb can hang down inside the open
solar cell cube with the glass spiral bulb not touching any cell.

Solar cells have a “power knee” so if you place them in series and load them with a
resistor you will need to adjust the resistance to get maximum wattage from the solar
cells. Now calculate how many bulbs and cubes you will need to have the system run
itself.  Then go build yourself a self running power supply.

It should work. The extra “cold electricity is actually free electrons captured from
the environment due to the high voltage pulses. And yes, they can create a self
running system. If you use a cap have a push to start switch charging the cap
from the battery. Eventually it will have enough energy to run itself then the
switch can disconnect the battery.

Then come back here and show us how it’s done.

:S:MarkSCoffman

ps: Imagine building a working perpetual motion machine as high school
science fair project! Indefinitely perplexing.

[gregted]

Hi all,

Just saw this circuit mod on youtube and am trying to get it to work. I have 2 circuit boards from a Kodak and Click imagery one use cameras.
I have removed and bridged the diode connections and connected the cfl to the capacitor outputs after removing the capacitor. I have also connected a switch across the original switch connectors.

The cfl lights very dimly and seems to only be partly lit.

I have been searching for 2 days and can't find a solution.

Any help appreciated.

Greg

[gregted]

Update.......

Managed to get my cfl to light but only if I use 2 x 1.5 AA batteries for a total of 2.83 volts.

Now don't get me wrong, I am still impressed at lighting a 240 volt cfl from 2.83 volts but others are lighting theirs from 1 AA and I would love to do this.

I have seen mention of adding a pot to the board to adjust the brightness and I rememeber someone saying to replace a 1 k resistor with a 100 ohm pot but I don't have any 1 k resistors on my boards.

I have attached a pic showing the resistors and their values.