Joule Thief

[nievesoliveras]

@nievesoliveras

Don't worry about the tpu,that will come in time, lets let people get the basics first, Then the sky won't seems so far after all.
I think we could make a better one , there is to much energy , it needs to more efficient in picking up excess losses , that way its not going to heat up. The main difference , in the 3 coil is the way the use them. It could be one of tow things , first way of doing this.

The first coil magnetize the core dc , second coil pulses with ac , the third one is the pickups coil. Steven never said there was no battery(he said no big battery. By tuning the ac freq close to the core resonant freq,to close will destroy the core.
(so one could take a magnet to replace the first coil, and make a good pickup coil to get a decent operative heat generation.)

The second way we are working on it as it is.Now we have 1 freq going on my double jt i had 2. One step at a time 

Remember it takes very little energy to create a magnetic field.The limits of the magnetic field are not calculated in volts or amps.
In that state magnetic is only limited by the pickup coil.

At least we have you that can understand it. Must of us cannot. I myself cannot yet.

@jesus,

yup

I can't see the youtube videos this week but I saw it was steven marks.

Hey, One for each home 120v 20A or so...

We just need to do it in public so everybody can make their own. We need to make em so everyone has instrux... etc.

lets keep dreaming and making turns. sounds like a dance.
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jeanna

That is a good dream and I think it is possiblee too.
I can draw a little on paint and maybe I can help with the graphics needed so the people can understand the process.

@ All:

Another video from Pirate Labs:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcJG_6YF1X4

This is just the 48" tube lighting of the Fuji AA circuit.  I am still learning about this camera.

@ Jesus:

Thanks.  I just played it again here on youtube and it was plenty loud on my end.  I don't know what could be wrong there.
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Bill

Maybe it is my computer. The operating system I am using is very old. Also the machine.
By the way Congratulations for your videos.

@freezer

Nice video! You and @pirate are the only ones making videos at the present time.

Jesus

[Pirate88179]

@ Freezer:

Great video!  Your production software is much better than mine.  I have some decent ones but they will not work with my little camera for some reason.  It makes me use the camera's cheap software.  Yes, I could use the solar panels as you suggested, and i might end up doing just that.  What I want to try first is to use them, and my supercaps along with the megabright leds to see how they might all work together.  One of my ideas is to construct a box using 1 foot square mirrors (as in the clear tiles folks glue onto walls)  This will have mirrors aligned on all six sides when assembled.  If I can get the 3 solar cells aligned inside with the leds in the right way, I hope to use all of the available light output by the leds as it will bounce around inside...well hopefully.



@ Jesus:

Thank you.

Bill

[mdmiller]

Mark,I rewound my toroid, didn't have exactly what you wanted, I used some thermostat wire for the 26 turn pickups I'm guessing 26 ga copper.  The two 7 turn primaries are iron florist wire and the windings are mirror opposite.

The battery is AA and dead putting out .5 V
When running each secondary 26 turn coil thru a bridge for DC I see one at 4.8V and one at 4.9V with the led on.  I do not currently have the 1K resistor in place. This is with an MPSA06 trans-- I have a 2N3904 somewhere I can't find it right now.

With the 1K in place and the led out, the pickups rectified measure 4V DC

I'll need to buy a new battery and try it, this is all I had.

I do the probing next but it will have to be later today.  Thanks for your guidance Mark !!
- Duane.

[sparks]

@pirate

   Don't know if the freq. is high enough but you can dump one lead  (no steel in jumper)  in a glass of water and just set it near the bulb.  The lead to the electrode along the bulb.   The mercury vapor gets excited by the emwaves and ionizaton and plasma currents evolve.  Basically capturing emwave energy of varying wavelengths and intensities.  These are radiated all the time but hard to observe unless you excite the mercury into plasma mode. 

[mdmiller]

A note to my previous test, I found a little newer battery 1.2V, hooked the pickup coils in series, and see 34V at the bridge (led's are all pulled out). With 2 led's on the primary, the pickups in series voltage drops to 13V

This is all with the resistor pulled and a jumper connected.  With the resistor in place I get nothing it's a 1K. 

I have a 9V transistor battery, can I hook this up or will I blow the tranny.??