Joule Thief

[electricme]

@ all

A couple of free software programs have come to my attention, from the good folks at MICROMETALS in Australia.

These are called "Inductor Design Software" and "RF Design Software" I have downloaded them but not tried them yet.

Both can be downloaded from these good folks at http://www.micrometals.com/software_index.html

I have also asked them to forward me a couple of samples, via their most kind sample offer, I will keep all posted.


I also in my internet travels discovered some more information regarding torrids, a Warpspeed on the backshed windmill forum seems to know what he is doing with torrid figgures.
I found this last Saturday night just before my hospital trip, unfortunitatly I couldnt post it until now.

http://www.thebackshed.com/windmill/FORUM1/forum_posts.asp?TID=753&PN=1

Take a look at this Warpspeed, he makes very interresting reading, some I think we can use in our endeavours, I will try to compact him shortly and see if he could give us any pointers.

@MK1
Thankyou for the kindness you express on a few pics of your beadinee board project, I was very touched by this so was my wife.

@ jeanna,
Thankyou for the suggestions on the cat end product stuff, that is something to think about, I have to go back and read it all up again in the morning, your knowledge about science is quite astounding.

@ bill,
If I'm not in the end of the que, just box up your cat for me, and send it over, ha ha I love those light Blue LED eyes, whacko mate.

Now, someone mentioned a JT output placed between a dollop of peanut butter, hmmm this could work if done right, got promice this one.

Isn't it amasing, a better mouse trap might evolve outa this, just imagine the advertising
"Wonderful Mousetrap discovered by the good folks at OU"

I gotta win da war on miceeees, day not gonna win, I win. (positive thinking)

I had a black cat, so black his coat was deep red, we called him "puss" he was a good mouser, and I still miss the 14 YO fella


jim

[sparks]

@jim
glad to hear you are doing better!

@timmy
the higher voltages they are recording is because there is no load, when you load it, the voltage drops. not loading a circuit will change all sorts of things in comparison to when it is loaded.

to quote charlie_v from another thread.
"A transformer only converts voltage to current or current to voltage, the power or energy in the transformer is the same (Power = Voltage x Current).  So you can take 50 Watts of power and produce 5000 Volts but the maximum current your load can draw would be 0.01 Amps.  If your load requires more current than that (i.e. your load is a very small resistance), the power source will not be able to supply it and the voltage in the transformer will begin to drop.  Likewise, with 50 Watts you can transform the voltage to 0.005V and the current available will be 10,000 Amps.  Of course you'd need very thick wires of very low resistance to handle that much current without over heating and melting the transformer's wire - your load would need to be a very low resistance too).
...The transformer does not create energy, it is only a pressure/flow converter.  So feeding back the output of the transformer even if it is high voltage, will not be able to take the place of a generator.  This is mainly because the losses in the system bring the operation down to below 100%.  If you had 100%, then no loss would be in the generator, and you could close the loop as long as you didn't pull any energy from the system."

    In the power =  voltage times amps let us not forget the time factor.  If you can get the voltage and amps flowing a million times a second it screws around alot more with the status quo distribution of charge and it's magnetic field disruption when the charges move.  (charges can move without mass moving by the way).
This phenomenon is so disruptive that it will radiate the power out of the system in the form of heat or emwaves unless provisions are made to confine this gain in energy to the field in question.

[nievesoliveras]

@all

Everybody here desrves an A+.

@electricme
I wish you to get well!

Jesus

[timmy1729]

    In the power =  voltage times amps let us not forget the time factor.  If you can get the voltage and amps flowing a million times a second it screws around alot more with the status quo distribution of charge and it's magnetic field disruption when the charges move.  (charges can move without mass moving by the way).
This phenomenon is so disruptive that it will radiate the power out of the system in the form of heat or emwaves unless provisions are made to confine this gain in energy to the field in question.

You mind translating for the electrically challenged among us(i.e. me). I'm guessing I get the idea. Someone said on overunity.com that the only difference between a lot of electricity and an explosion is the time it takes to release the energy. Do you mean something like that? Or do I just need more caffeine? BTW, I don't care what anyone says, 7am is too early to be at work. 

[timmy1729]

Finally finished reading all the new posts.  WOW!

@timmy1729
When you connect more capacitors in parallel you won't see an increase in your output readings.
What you will see is that anything you run off the capacitors will run for a longer time after you cut the power.
That is the purpose for Pirates 10 Farad super caps. 
He can run the Joule Thief for some time after the power is disconnected.

I did notice that when I added the 2200uF cap that the LED produces light in some form for a couple of minutes. It's pretty cool, to me at least. So, does the voltage not play a big part in this? Is the 2200uF the amount of charge at the 10v?