Joule Thief

[nievesoliveras]

@all

I posted long ago a link of a guy that makes the cfl work with a 12v battery and a washer machine relay. I replicated the circuit and it works. It is just a little noisy. But it works.

I include here the schematic I composed using different schematics bits.

By the way. My goal is:
To run a motor with an 1.5v or 9v battery and recharge it while it is running the motor.

Jesus

[nievesoliveras]

@pirate and @all

Everybody is cordially invited to a new topic I posted.

http://www.overunity.com/index.php?topic=6362.0;topicseen

Jesus

[Pirate88179]

@ Pirate88179

Works per Freezer circuit. Brighter than Kodak but does not seem as bright as Freezer was getting, but I do not have neon bulb in parallel with tube. If you are still having trouble getting it to work - post photos of board near neon bulb (showing bulb), near diode (showing diode), and on other side of board near positive battery terminal, I will mark them up to show where to clip leads.

Thanks, I will do that when I get a chance.  As far as I can tell, I am tapped into the right places on the board and I did not short anything with excess solder to any other trails on the board.  I am sure I did something incorrect however and will post a picture or two.  I just got an el cheapo HD digital camera the other day as a back-up camera.  It only cost $50.00, reg. $130.00 but was on sale.  If nothing else, maybe I can make better videos of my experiments using it instead of the "video" part of my digital still camera.  My good videocam is analog as judges still do not like evidence submitted in digital format, too easy to tamper with.

Thanks.

Bill

[Pirate88179]

xee2:

Here are some pics.  The first one, as you can see, shows my connection to the board between the diode and the transformer.  It does not cross over in to any other paths.  It is hard to see from this angle but my wire comes in almost parallel to the board and connects to that point, and goes slightly beyond but it is above the board at that point.  I attach my other wire to where the 4.7m resistor was from the other side as it was easier to keep from shorting out any other paths.  Then, I attached my switch.  What do you think?

Bill

[nievesoliveras]

@pirate

That looks okay to me!
Just check the switch legs for shortcircuits with an ohmmeter.

Jesus