Joule Thief

[innovation_station]

im happy you got it to work neptune !!

i wish all were a quick as you were ..

practice makes perfect .. i herd that b4 lol

thanks stpure it took a few min to build it

ill finish it off today and test it  i did test that coil and  output was 280v per 60 turn coil ..

my 12 v is up to 10.22v from the same aa battery 

ist

and i still have 277.1 volt  on my cap 

[Pirate88179]

@ Wilby:

I'll take a shot at your question.  I think the spark gap by itself does waste energy as you said...both heat and light and this costs.  However, when used as a switching device as is being done by Kapandze, and some others, to set up a resonance, it then becomes part of the energy amplification device and is no longer wasteful. Not really different than the way we use transistors in amplifying circuits.

Just my uneducated 2 cents opinion.

Bill

[Pirate88179]

Gotcha!!
Good news is that I got my first JT working!
I had a look at this image and decided to reverse the wires connecting o the battery and to swap the LED.

Thanks to ALL!

Neptune:

That is the same photo I used to get my first one working also.  Nice job.  I think you will have a lot of fun with these circuits.

Bill

[resonanceman]

Gotcha!!
Good news is that I got my first JT working!
I had a look at this image and decided to reverse the wires connecting o the battery and to swap the LED.

Thanks to ALL!

Great work  Neptune   


What  do you  want to  try next?


gary

[jeanna]

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is the intent to replace the light of the led with the light of the spark gap?

Hi Wilby,
In some of tesla's writings I gathered that he was thinking if he could use sparks for lighting. He had 2 kinds of sparks and only one of them caused heat.
I don't have any way to experiment with this so I can only report from reading tesla's lecture to other professionals.

now to the real core of my questions and this might be opening a can of worms, if so my apologies in advance.
does a spark gap waste or entrain?

Grrreat question.
I wonder if the difference between the spark that is hot and the one that is not, is the answer to this question.

It is entirely possible that the cold spark is bringing in energy from the surrounding sea of energy.

Like the exothermic or endothermic reaction.
only bright. 

jeanna