Joule Thief

[stprue]

@ kooler

I actually already have a free demo board.  I think my goal will be to mod it into a JT.

[stprue]

Here is the into if you missed it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsQSEobZJOM&list=UUy-jIqtOny6R0jK03qJN0sw&index=1&feature=plcp

and here is the company video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwjIshSF18E&feature=channel&list=UL

[gadgetmall]

Nice find there for free . I like this one it runs on as little as 20micro volts and steps up the voltage to 5 volts ..all in one chip  you would need a dip socket converter holder for it to convert it to a big pinout DIP socket because it is also a micro surface mount . i have one for the chip Alex(GROUNDLOOP) used in the circuit board for my older project . it also is a sub micro up converter that takes micro volts and converts it up to 5 volts . so basically it's possible to run other chips that require 5 volts off off of a source of 20mv . you could run an led off of 20micro volts with  these chips or store the voltage in super caps and batteries for later use .i can see clearly that a loop device is so very easy with these chips .  . and you know that 20 microvolts is easy to obtain . Even the human body's electricity could possibly produce 20 mv from your fingers . You every checked your voltage? try it with a meter . if you have a non powered  analog meter that has microvolts proves it  but also a GOOD digital meter will show some voltage on your hands if you hold the probes in your two  hands .you know you have a good digital multimeter if your meter won't pass any of it's voltage to the tip leads . you can check this with another meter .meter to meter . We have truly amazing bodies that are ran by electricity . Our every cell runs on electricity or  any living creature to think or move and grow .

http://www.linear.com/product/LTC3108

and the surface mount to DIP adapters here:  http://www.adapt-plus.com/products/adapters/prod_soldip.html

you need a steady hand to solder those chips to that adapter . I can do it . things you will need are a magnifying light  and a small tip temperature controlled soldering station .

Al

[gadgetmall]

And i want to tell you one more thing i hope gets buried in this big ass thread . Me and  my Brother are one of the very few in the world to have touched the moondust covered Neil Armstrong suit .well we had these white disposable covered over suits on . The only precautions at that time were we put on white booties and covered your body and hair in disposable coveralls and a hair net thing (didn't like that cause i was a hippy) ,then you go in a glass door sealed cleaner room and air blows the hell out of you and you are exposed to High UV BLUE LIGHT . then after that you go thru a second air blowing chamber UV automatic sliding glass door section and it opens  then you are in the area where the science was preformed . I remember it well . Thats right back in the 60's there was no security like there is now . We were actually in the room with the three space suits hanging there and tables full of moon samples and we touched the dust covered space suits from the moon landing apollo 11 . AND we both have a piece of the apollo 13 capsule given to us. A technician was working inside it in big ass hanger and we we given a piece of it aked by our uncle(he ain't going to like this) . The old NASA had junked space capsules in the back parking lot and all kinds of crap from space just laying around and i guess later junked . .it was a cool experience i will never forget .And if someone shows up asking questions about it we don't have it  anymore. it's gone lost years ago in the 7 or more moves we made....

[stprue]

Nice find there for free . I like this one it runs on as little as 20micro volts and steps up the voltage to 5 volts ..all in one chip  you would need a dip socket converter holder for it to convert it to a big pinout DIP socket because it is also a micro surface mount . i have one for the chip Alex(GROUNDLOOP) used in the circuit board for my older project . it also is a sub micro up converter that takes micro volts and converts it up to 5 volts . so basically it's possible to run other chips that require 5 volts off off of a source of 20mv . you could run an led off of 20micro volts with  these chips or store the voltage in super caps and batteries for later use .i can see clearly that a loop device is so very easy with these chips .  . and you know that 20 microvolts is easy to obtain . Even the human body's electricity could possibly produce 20 mv from your fingers . You every checked your voltage? try it with a meter . if you have a non powered  analog meter that has microvolts proves it  but also a GOOD digital meter will show some voltage on your hands if you hold the probes in your two  hands .you know you have a good digital multimeter if your meter won't pass any of it's voltage to the tip leads . you can check this with another meter .meter to meter . We have truly amazing bodies that are ran by electricity . Our every cell runs on electricity or  any living creature to think or move and grow .

http://www.linear.com/product/LTC3108

and the surface mount to DIP adapters here:  http://www.adapt-plus.com/products/adapters/prod_soldip.html

you need a steady hand to solder those chips to that adapter . I can do it . things you will need are a magnifying light  and a small tip temperature controlled soldering station .

Al

Good stuff Gadget!  Start off small to prove  the FE concept and then develop something substantial!