Joule Thief

[stprue]

Yes, I noticed a lot of things were not clearly captured but it was my first try, but I do appoligise.  I'm not sure what else can be done with that set up so I in a sense gave up on it. 

Anyway I hope it opens up some new ideas.

[jeanna]

OK you can give up on it but I think you have a good idea, but I am not sure what you did, so there is no way to replicate it to see if you did.

I added to my other post.

Please explain about the base connections.

Is the base connected directly to a pickup aith no resistor?
That is an aweful lot of voltage going to the base without a resistor.

And the resistor seems only to be on the collector?

jeanna

[stprue]

What you said is right for the collector not the base.  I have connected wires to the emitter with different results also.

[jeanna]

Stprue,

What then is the connection to the base?

Where from and where to?
Which coil wire goes to the base and where is the pot in all this?
Is there a second base resistor you didn't mention?

If the emitter is connected to the pot, then how is the base connected to the pot?

This is sort of all one question.
thank you,

jeanna

[stprue]

@ Jeanna

I will set up a cleaned up version and post some pics.  The fun with this set up is that there are soooo many connection set-up to try.  Giver me a few days and I will post some really easy to follow pics.  I have some time to kill until my HV stuff comes in anyway.