Joule Thief

[Pirate88179]

Thanks for the link.  It was fun to see a JT small enough to be hidden inside of a tiny incandescent bulb base.

Sorry I missed the 1999 history the first time that it was posted here, somewhere amongst the thousands of replies.  (It's like a hoarder's house in here: every trivial post gets saved and stacked, so we don't lose anything.  But saving everything also makes it impossible to find anything useful.)

You are welcome.  Yes, I agree that there is a lot of great information in here but also, it is easily buried among many, many, many postings and hard to find at times.

When someone news asks about something we have covered, I used to look it up and post a link to where we discussed it but now, I find it easier to just re-post my photo or link information as I have sometimes looked for 2 hours and still could not find it here, ha ha.

I have posted a lot of the good schematics from the early days in the diagrams topic area but, I believe I was up to page 200 on here and I have not had the time to go back and update it yet.  I guess that leaves me about 800 pages behind or so, depending upon how you do the page count.  When I find the time, I will try to update it.

Bill

[Pirate88179]

I just found this photo of Big Clive.  He is the guy in the middle.  Evidently, he and his 2 friends were made up to appear in a French film of some sort.

Bill

[innovation_station]

i would like to thank him ..

as for not the work of this man  i would not have the understanding i have gained ..

not to say i would not arrive at my answers .. im sure i would have .. just not as fast .. it would have taken me longer to connect the dots !

ist

[MrMag]

Nice find Bill. It's always nice to see some history about the people that have made discoveries. Do you know if he's still around? He would probably be impressed with what most of the people are doing on this thread with his little circuit.

[Pirate88179]

MrMag:

Yes, I agree with you.  I actually have his e-mail address and I thought it would be cool to invite him here to see what we all have done with his little circuit.  I'll bet he would love it. 

So, I will do so.  We will see what happens.

Bill