Joule Thief

[electricme]

@ bill,
I have a really beaut ultra high pitch plug in the wall device, geasshoppers don't like it, I held one up towards it once, he bent sideways at every screech of the output. I discovered then, that grasshoppers have hearing, I chucked him outside, don't worry he was still alive.

But a mouse, don't know if it will work, but it should in theory.
Good idea Bill, needs further looking into that one.
Mouses chewing bait off the traps, grrrr, waistin bait, didnt invite em to a kraft picnik lol

Wonder how Jeanna is going, bet she got the shoes off, feet up, sipping lemonade,  reading handsel n grettel, kniitting and woundering to the point of worry, what we all been up to behind her back, ha ha, a bit like the bos is away and the workers doing their own thing.
Ittl take her a month to catch up reading all this stuff, can she speed read?
(Hello Jeanna).


@Mk1
ROCKS to em all.
Yep the muslems, go round and round a black stone in a square building in mekka.
The kings of england are enthroned on a chair with a rock hidden inside it.
When they wear a crown it has sparklie rocks in it.

Both systems musta been dreamed up by the same bloke, musta had rocks in his head.

I visited england in 93, went to the New Forrest, saw the stone where the arrow bounced off and struck a king in the eye, he died later on.
Stone the flaman crows, carnt get away from rocks lol


General  Jim

[innovation_station]

great video !!!


im itching to play some big super caps lol ..... 


but today i wind my 1.25" green toroide .....

slayer way ...  just plain and real simple ..

ist!

[electricme]

@all
we just got 3,000 replies, saw it as I went to post this cartoon.
Well done everyone, from General Jim

The Joule Thief Mouse Eliminator by the production of Hi cycle sounds ha ha.

[Koen1]

Does that work on mice?
I know it works on bugs and mosquitos... Those mozzie repellant
devices that you plug into the wall socket make a sound that is
in the vacinity of the pitch I'm hearing off that beeping transformer.
It makes a similar noise and is equally annoying. (I can't really
use those devices as they annoy me only slightly less than they
annoy the mosquitos )

Anyways, the CFL, like I said, it is a Philips "Tornado" CFL,
it has a spiral glass "tube", it says on the box that it uses 8W
at an AC of 220-240V and produces 500 lumen.
I used a hacksaw to get into the plastic base containing the electronics,
then carefully pried open the case untill I had the spiral tube cut
loose from its connectors on the pronted circuit board, and the pcb
loose from its connections to the lamp fitting.
When I hook two of the spiral tubes electrodes to the output of
one of my camera boards, it lights up. It does not light up the tube
to full brightness, but it is easily bright enough to read by.
It works just about as well as the fluorescent tube I played with before.

I am now tinkering with the pcb from the lamp as that too contains a
little transformer and a couple of capacitors, including a 400V 1.8uF one...
... perhaps I can rip some of the components off just like I did with the
camera board and end up with another wannabe-JT circuit?

And I just gotta say

What the heck is going on with the Illuminati conspiracy theory there?
Charles of Wales a descendant of David as well as the Antichrist?
Have you seen the guy? He's got the charisma of a clamshell that man!
Whatever he does he always manages to make himself look stupid...
I really do not see him lead the world as any form of new messiah...


regards,
Koen

[nievesoliveras]

Here's a video Lidmotor did.

This is a replication of the coil and circuit I was woring on.

Great Job as all ways Lidmotor, thank you for making the video.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwIp3N9tqhA&feature=channel_page

I saw the video but I could not catch the changes he made to the circuit. If you understood, Can you make those changes visible on this composition?

@electricme
Nice drawing general.

Jesus