Joule Thief

[Pirate88179]

Excellent!! Thanks, I might pick up a 3rd set.

Bill

[casman1969]

Do you think (anyone) that by charging a cap with this style circuit and then using the discharge to power a Bedini/Adams motor you can get some different results???
Locked on PM's but this seems to offer a higher voltage to my motor (6.6' diameter) with low RPMs.
Just wondering out loud...
I know my motor responds better to higher voltages.

Thanks,

Carl

[maw2432]

My first test of 100 LED lights with the CCFL board was good.   But when I put in the second 100  LEDs the lights went much dimmer. 
I was using 6V input to the CCFL board.   It appears that the Fuji circuit with just 1.5V AA is much better.   

Bill

[Pirate88179]

My first test of 100 LED lights with the CCFL board was good.   But when I put in the second 100  LEDs the lights went much dimmer. 
I was using 6V input to the CCFL board.   It appears that the Fuji circuit with just 1.5V AA is much better.   

Bill

Man, I don't understand that.  Which kind of lights did you get?  My Kroger's had two types, I should maybe have mentioned that I got the "icicle" style.  My neighbor bought the others that look like the old, regular Christmas tree lights and his were not very bright because the plastic housing covering the leds was too dark and thick in my opinion. I got one set of clear (very bright) and one set of assorted colors.  It was a bit of a challenge to hang the icicle lights on my tree but they did the job.  Your transformer is larger and you had more input power.  I was afraid that you were going to burn out the single 100 strand.  Maybe your frequency is too high/low for lighting leds efficiently on that board?  I have no idea.

@ Carl:

I am still in the process of building a Bedini SSG and I want to try to use a joule thief circuit in there in some configuration but I have not decided just how.  I want to get it running the regular way first, and then see what I can do with the jt circuit.  I think there is something there.

Bill

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@ maw2432

Did you have the LED strings in series (voltage going out one and into the other)?  I would think they would work best that way.