Joule Thief

[xee2]

@ kooler

Well here is my first try at a video of the sparks. They will jump farther than this, but if I spread the wires farther apart I start getting sparks across the coil terminals. If you look carefully, you can see some faint additional sparks that are longer than those across the closest points of the wires. I need to figure out how to get a better video.

[kooler]

jeanna
if you ever played with sparks..lol
nah i joking ..but if you look at a spark that has alot of lenth and no width its mostly just voltage
but if you see a spark with alot more width then it has some current with it
i say current because it may not be of amps but there are some ma's in the mot's output

and i remeber seeing your demo's of the inductors and thought it to very impressive
but i never had enough inductors to try myself
your research into the inductor's got me to start trying them in things

xee2
very nice blue light...

thanks
robbie

[Pirate88179]

Xee2:

That is some pretty large sparks there. Can you control the timing of the spark release?  I mean, can you adjust for higher frequency (occurrence) or lower?  it does not seem like you would need too much more to have a "constant" appearing spark like Kapanadze has.  I guess something over about 70hz would appear constant to us. (Maybe less for an old guy like me)

Bill

[xee2]

Xee2:

That is some pretty large sparks there. Can you control the timing of the spark release?  I mean, can you adjust for higher frequency (occurrence) or lower?  it does not seem like you would need too much more to have a "constant" appearing spark like Kapanadze has.  I guess something over about 70hz would appear constant to us. (Maybe less for an old guy like me)

Bill

Smaller capacitors will produce smaller sparks at a higher rate, larger capacitors will produce larger sparks at a slower rate. For a given source power. Increasing source power increases pulse rate.

[innovation_station]

so i may have a few units built for this porpous already ...

hummm


i was gonna zap a neo

i have a CONSTANT OUT PUT IN A CAP OF 2-300 VDC .. I CAN CONSTANTALLY SHORT IT ...  and have a high freq spark gap

ist!

and yesssssss  IF YOU TOUCH IT .. it hurts ...