Joule Thief

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@ Pirate88179

Tesla magic trick (only one wire to tube, other end of tube held in hand) using AAA battery and Fuji board.

[Pirate88179]

@ xee2:

Nice work.  That is how I lit my cfl but no where near as bright.  If you had larger tubes, I'll bet that would work also.  One thing I did notice is that even though my first tube (the small one, same as yours) was ok in brightness, the 18" tube was brighter and the 48" tube brighter yet, for whatever reasons. I almost didn't try the larger tubes because I thought there was no way for it to work unless the small tube was super bright.  I have no idea why this is except that we are exciting more (larger) gas volume so more light because it is spread out over a longer area maybe?  BTW you said AAA battery, is this correct or typo?  Mine was running on the AA battery it came with.  If it was the AAA battery, this is good news for me for trying it off my earth battery. (lower mA's)

@ Jim:

Thanks.  I still have a few more things to try.  Yes, the cfl stuff is BS!  I hate when people (the government) mess with the free markets.  IF indeed this bulb were actually better and more cost effective, they would not have to outlaw Edison bulbs because no one would buy them anymore and they would close down.  The fact that this is not happening tells me a lot.  So, they have to artificially control the markets.  Also here, we can't just throw them away.  They have to be treated like hazardous waste (which they are due to the mercury) and sent to a center.  And, if one breaks in your home, you are not allowed to clean it up, you have to call in a hazardous materials clean-up company which, as I have heard many stories on the radio, charge many hundreds if not thousands to do so.  What a scam.  I will never run one of those if I am not home, or if I am asleep.  The first one that went bad, I had smelled something like a hot electrical circuit all morning but could not find where it was coming from.  A little while later, I walked into the bathroom and turned on the cfls and...poof the smell I had smelled all morning with the lights OFF came in a big rush and black smoke poured from one of the lamps.  I cut the switch and grabbed a towel and unscrewed it and dropped in in the sink where it had ignited the plastic housing and was burning pretty good.  I flushed it with water and it went out ok.  The nest one was in my bedroom and it gave no warning at all...flipped the switch and....poof....black smoke and flames...another plastic fire.  Same drill....towel, unscrew....sink...water.  The paper here said many of the local house fires were determined to be caused by these stupid things.  I am switching to all LEDs as soon as I can. Great idea on the oil cooler for the transistors, I believe Tesla is the one that started doing that for some of his transformer coils.  Probably would not need much volume of oil at all for this.  Good thinking.

@ Wilby:

Thanks.!  I can't wait for my next trick....ha ha.

@ Freezer:

Did you make your LED bulbs or buy them?  I know Ccrane Company has some but they are very high.  I believe we could make out own using a small/simple ac to dc inverter and a number of super bright 100 mm LEDS. If you did make your own, could you share with us how you did it?  I know these are the lights of the future and maybe even the present.  My Christmas tree (very small one) has 2 100 led stings on it. (200 LEDs total)  They cost almost nothing to run, don't get hot....last forever....what more could we want?


Bill

[Pirate88179]

Hi !

sorry to bump in

this seems simmilar enough (at least biffilar)
http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/tepcoil.htm

1. has really enyone tried discharging one cap at input and filling up the other at output
after that calculate reamaining energy in both caps.
2. can someone try to energize diode and meassure input current using circuit above (but using biff coil from Joules Thief)
now led will lit when Tr is open and allso when Tr is closed from BEMF...

just speculation...I'll try it - maybe cascading is possible...

Wiz

You may want to look at Captainpecan's topic: My gift to overunity, or something like that.  He has videos and discussions where he charged one cap, ran a motor with it, dumped it into another cap (50/50 split) and then both caps added together had more than he started with in the first place.  There was a lot of debate back and forth on this one so I don't really know the outcome as of now.

Bill

[Pirate88179]

Electricme,

I am not sure exactly where to place the capacitor in the circuit.

I could not find the original document that I read this in but here is another version of the same story. http://sound.westhost.com/articles/incandescent.htm
The information about power factor is close to the end of the page.

I am quoting MrMag's link here again in case anyone missed it.  This is important!  This is exactly what I have experienced (I should have taken photos of what was left of mine) and the article is excellent.

Thank you for posting it.  What kind of product are they forcing on us where it is considered "normal" for it to burn up at the end of its life span?  Heck, even the Ford Pinto got recalled after all of the lawsuits.  Hey, we should call these the Ford Pinto of light bulbs.

Excellent post, thank you.  *EDIT**  I wanted to add that 2 of my 3 failures were in the bathroom fixture that the article says these are not recommended for. I don't recall reading that on the packaging.  And, if we can't use these in the bathroom, what are we to use?  I am going all LED as soon as I can.

Bill

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@ Pirate88179

Yes, it is running on a single AAA (the same one I have been using for a while). But, it does not look as bright when the lights are on (that's why I took the picture with the lights out). It gets brighter when the second wire is connected. After Christmas I will try try it with a longer tube.