Joule Thief

[innovation_station]

NOW YOU REALLY WANT AN ADVANCE MENT

LOL

POWER 2 WIRES OF THE PICKUPS DUH!!!!

LOL

WITH THE FREE OUT PUT!!!


WARNING DONT GET ME STARTED I WILL CONFUSE THE SHIT OUT OF YOU IN  A FEW POSTS !!!! 

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IST!

now really im done with teaching ...  public

im selling private lessons 1 on 1

i will fully teach ...  i got to eat like the rest of you

pm if intrested

william

im gone enjoy

and NEVER GIVE UP

[MrMag]

LMAO. IST you almost do that with every one of your posts now.

[Pirate88179]

@ Wilby:

Thanks for posting that.  Yes, if you get a chance, a close up would be helpful I think.  As far as the supercaps I have, yes any of them would fit neatly into a flashlight situation since we are removing most of the batteries.  You have the small one, (first one I played with on the earth battery topic) that is about the size of a hearing aid battery, 5.5 volt, .47 F, and the others are about the size of a cigarette butt. (2.3 v, 10F)  By now, I guess I should be able to figure out the wiring or rewiring of a flashlight meant for 3 AAAs and use the JT and 1 AA.  I just need to sit down and do it.  One of my problems is I want to replace the 5mm leds with 10mm superbrights and the reflector will have to be modified for this, or, I may have to make a custom reflector. (Not easy to do here)

Koen1 mentioned the use of led street lights and the comparison to "regular" bulbs and I do not doubt the outcome.  My thoughts are, the main thing I have seen in most led flashlights, or lights for that matter, is a total disregard to designing the reflector around the led's light emitting characteristics. A regular Edison based bulb puts out light differently than the led and until some bright young engineers make reflectors that capitalize on this instead of what is now being done, Koen is correct about the leds as they stand today.  I have always said on here, these are the lights of tomorrow and I still believe this but, it is going to take some rethinking about the way light is delivered.

In my little office I can have 4 ultrabright leds running on my breadboard from a JT circuit and a couple of supercaps and it light it up enough so I can type.  All I did was use a few mirrors at certain angles and the light is just fine.  they light for hours and hours from a single AA as you all know.

Thanks for the photo and if you can do a close up of your mod, or a simple diagram, I would appreciate it as I know others will as well. Thanks.

@ All:

I am still working on the diagrams topic but, i want to call your attention to a post made by Spark's that I think we need to revisit.  If you go to that topic and look it is one of the last posts I put up.  He speaks about high voltage and amps, and lack of amps, and how, if we get the volts up high enough and dump into a cap, the amps will be there as well.  I know I missed it the first time around and it is very good reading.  I don't normally copy posts for that topic but in this case, I made an exception.


Bill

[TheNOP]

Does anyone here know what the leads on these components are made of?  Tin perhaps?  the transistor, the LED or the diodes?

have you try a magnet on them. 
probably tin or zinc plated.



@WilbyInebriated
i would rush to change my wep keys if i were you...

[WilbyInebriated]

@WilbyInebriated
i would rush to change my wep keys if i were you...

they are not my wep keys  i just like to be informed about what's going on in my little neck of the woods
encryption, making or breaking, is a hobby of mine.