Joule Thief

[tagor]

Joule Tieff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

can you detail your shematic ?

[flathunter]

Nice work Xee2,
any chance of getting that  xenon tube to full brightness 

There must  be a Jule Thief record for the light amount produced for the minimum of watts, anyone know the answer ?

I'd like to throw my hat in the ring here (no pun intended).....


Check out these milliwatt inputs...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQaAyo8X4e0


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD4YOpzKxBQ&feature=related

[powercat]

Hi flathunter.
All your links are now saying video taken down ? I did manage to watch the first video 90 milliamps is very low,
but how do you calculate the light output, I don't think many people have light meters.

[flathunter]

Hi flathunter.
All your links are now saying video taken down ? I did manage to watch the first video 90 milliamps is very low,
but how do you calculate the light output, I don't think many people have light meters.

Hi Powercat!


I just took down the videos because I didnt want to misinform people and I realised I had made an elementary blunder and put my multimetre in the wrong place.  I claimed that I was running the 72W CFL on less than 1 milliamp (200 microamps) at 5V - This was rubbish.  I can run the big CFL at around 100 milliamps, but NOT 100 microamps!  Its still a very impressive circuit and I will add some more videos soon which make the power consumption clear.  I could run xenons in series with CFLs with 1AA as the input, so it its pretty juicy.....but not as juicy as I first thought!


Bit embarrassing really, but there you go!  We learn from our mistakes and all that

[Mk1]

Hi everyone , just passing by , a cheap source of spy camera for you guys

http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/84089/Cameras_in_Digital_Convert_Boxes__BEWARE_______wow_must_see/

I bet you will get a kick out of it Pirate !

I bet you could still use the box without cam .