Joule Thief

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@ Pirate88179

Check out Yucca's latest device over on the Tariel Kapanadze topic. 

Thanks, I will.

EDIT: Great video. Thanks. The circuit he is using is the same as a Joule thief with a pickup coil and with an extra resistor added to lower the base voltage when using a high input voltage.

[resonanceman]

@All

I just went outside and rechecked my EER setup, it is still rolling along, voltage has dropped as expected, but it is still shuvving out 3 volts.
I think it is getting into settleing down mode, and if it makes it, the voltage should improve again shortly.

Anyway, it was time to see if I could get it to do something, and so I connected a LED to its output.

Ha ha ha, it works, very nicely thank you all, he he the White LED light up nice and brightly. I got it propped up against the fence so I see if it gets dim or brighter. Going to keep my eye on it overnight.

I got another LED and connected it in parallel, it lit up also, but they dimmed slightly, BUT it works, wow, connect a JT to this system and we are arrrrwayyyyyyy

jim

Jim

Great  work on your EEG

If  I understand  right  ....... insulating  the  outside of the pipes makes it possable  to   place them close together .  .... Is that right ?

Is  there any   indication  that  you are getting more than  galvanic  effect ?

I  was thinking that    if   it is  just galvanic  and   the outsides  are insulated .......I can''t think  of any reason they would  have to  be   out in the  yard .   
A  big  plastic   box in the basement should  work  just as good  .

gary

[nievesoliveras]

@ nievesoliveras

I suspect that by not using a toroid for your coil you will be getting better efficiency since the ferrite is lossy. It will be interesting to see if that is true.

It looks like there are a lot of parts on your breadboard. Can you post a circuit diagram?

How do you plan to make the spark gap for the Tesla coil?

EDIT: A battery powered Tesla coil would be vey cool.

The toroid or JT is the flyback you are seeing on the photos. It is a 5 turns bifilar joule thief with a coil as a pickup.

I took off the board the transistors I was holding there so they do not get lost.

@all

I have been having bad luck lately, almost everything is getting damaged.
The last thing I lost was my iron solder.

But the thing is that we have to be positive, if we are given lemons, we make lemonade.

I recycled the iron solder handle into a beautiful tesla coil.
Keep the good work!

Jesus

[jeanna]

PLEASE PASS THE LEMONS!

jesus that is a beautiful Tesla coil!
And on a cutting board, no less!

So, now we have a new Tesla pancake named "victor", and a new tesla coil named "lemonade"

Very nice.

jeanna

[stprue]

I agree with Jeanna, nice work and it looks great.