Joule Thief

[jeanna]

@Jadaro,
Good job.
If you remove the resistors/diodes in the string, you will be able to use less juice.
Of course, you will need to take the string apart, but you only need to remove the 1st led at the end of each chain to have 2 strings that will work.

I like how your idea has worked.
(Being me, I would like it better with 1.2v, but never mind. )
Is this the normal brightness for those lights?

thank you,

jeanna

[innovation_station]

here are a few pics of how far i made it so far on the ring i was building .. im going to use pnp switching for this unit ..


lookie what i added to the MK1 FEED BACK TO SELF RUN PART... lol   

put toroide there ..  use the radiateing magneitc feild ...   TUNE IT TO  THE FEED BACK WINDING ...


so many ways ....

william

[Pirate88179]

Jadaro:

Mine that I got last year did not have any diodes.  These were in strings of 100 leds per string.  Jeanna's did have diodes so, I guess I got lucky.  I see now that she has posted about that so I would follow her advice.

I like the blue color there...looks great.

Bill

[jadaro2600]

I'll plug them in and see - I'm a bit reluctant to take it apart, ..if you look back, ( i noticed at least ) that there is some sort of dummy plug in the middle of the string.

edit:
They're stupid bright when plugged into the wall. ..nothing like the JTC, but mine's not a traditional mod.  It's funny, when I look right at them they appear to operate as normal, but when I look beyond them or off to the right, they appear to jitter a little bit, as if they're pulsing.  Also, there are two dummy plugs, and they're getting warm - so I assume they're diodes.

I'm fixing to try another winding type - but I don't know how to describe it ~ it was inspired by the work of IST,

[innovation_station]

i can not wate to see your ideas ...  i love positive feed back! 

and all my stuff inspired by the ones befor me !   well ok some of it was  the devine guidence ..  ok ok ok  a lot was .. sheesh...  lol

the unit i have just  showen above is..
basic OTTO with  a TWIST  of JT  and a HINT  of SM combined  with a whole lot of ME ..

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here is a pic of my new hat ... i just love it!  fits great...