Joule Thief

[resonanceman]

HI Gadgetmall very interesting about the heater. Even a water heater would work with your circuit you're mentioning? It would be a very good invention man
About the cap can one use a smaller one or a DC one?
Thanks man keep on with the good work.

guruji

I was wondering  the same thing about smaller caps  ..... I wonder  if  another kind of cap  could work


As  I understand  it .......with what  Gadget  has  right now ........ a water heater  ellement  could be used  as the load ..........but  the  cap  will take about 8 hours to charge  ....then it will discharge in a few minutes .  ....... the water hearter element  is also to large to get as hot as a short piece of nicrome  wire .
( I am sure Gadget  will improve on this 8 hour time )

I was thinking that a small cap  dumped  a few times a second might be more powerful than a large cap  dumped a few times a day .

I am also  remembering  I read somewhere that  a cap made  in cylinder form ......as in made from tubes  spaced within  one another  has some OU properties .

I also read that  the  large cans on  the Testakica  are  caps with coils inside  of them  . 

HHHhhhhhmmmm

Would  a large   JT coil inside  a cylindrical  cap would inductively couple  with the cap ?

Any  ideas on  what to use for a dielectric ?
I tried making  a large cap  when I was  posting on the Stubbfield  earth battery thread .    I  could not get it to hold  a charge  for even a minute .




gary

[innovation_station]

this is where stage 2 fits gary!

stage 1 is this entire thred in every winding config imaginable and many not showen ...


what you are wanting to do is stage 2 THE GOLD RING

this operates from stage 1 stage 1 provides amps and many to do stage 2

say you designed a coil to slam 15 wats 3 times / sec  i bet you got some dam big output there ...

see how it works ..

ist!


you see stage 2 is the same a little bit better ..  i have a special bridge rectifier for this porpus .. as a db107 WILL NOT CUT IT !     lol

i have a high amp high voltage high freq .. 240 000 watt rectifier ...

i will never build this compleat unit public .. sorry !   just because i can do things ...  does not always mean i should do them ..  i respect life i will not put in the hands of children dangrous toys ..

stage 2 can KILL YOU OK !

for this verry reason i progress VERY SLOWLY... 

be carefull !   its a whole new world ...  thease things have a bad bite !

you have been warned!

w

[Pirate88179]

Jeanna:

I just ordered four 3 3/8" dia. ferrite toroids from all electronics.  I am going to try to replicate Lidmotor's Jeanna Light. (Using your big toroid winding idea) I was thinking about stacking 2 of them together and winding just as if it was one thick one.  What do you think?  have you seen Lidmotor's second video of the light where he put it into a very nice box?  He is getting 10 watts of light with only .3 watts of power input.  This is a very beautiful and special project that I would recommend to anyone.  I may need some help on the winding.  I also ordered some 5 watt wire wound pots as well.

Here is the link to Lidmotor's video in case anyone missed it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11nzbi59T7w&feature=subtivity


Bill

[gadgetmall]

guruji

I was wondering  the same thing about smaller caps  ..... I wonder  if  another kind of cap  could work


As  I understand  it .......with what  Gadget  has  right now ........ a water heater  ellement  could be used  as the load ..........but  the  cap  will take about 8 hours to charge  ....then it will discharge in a few minutes .  ....... the water hearter element  is also to large to get as hot as a short piece of nicrome  wire .
( I am sure Gadget  will improve on this 8 hour time )

I was thinking that a small cap  dumped  a few times a second might be more powerful than a large cap  dumped a few times a day .


gary

Hi gary . nichrome  wire is the way to go here . then you can control the resistance and amount of heat Verse time . I used a small piece of coil and it lit up like a light bulb . i could feel the heat on my face . IF i put say 5 or 6 feet of wire coil then the heat will be slower  and there for could last for hours . Also If one Jt charges in 8 hours Stands to reason that 8 Jts will charge it in one hour . and 16 Jts will charge it in a few minutes . IST already has the makings in mind for something similar and he will see results . I believe the big 6 inch toroid will charge this Bcap up quickly once we find the proper winding . probably using a 2n3055 or bigger transistor .
Gadget

[innovation_station]

or mosfets ... they work awesome if you build it right ... 

and just add more for how much you want it to push ..

10 20 30 40 50 amp i dont care ...  bang all at 1 time imagine 50amps 2.7v as an input where your 11 ma is lol

just once please visualize !

i have been seeing this crap in my mind for a lonnnnggggg time ..



ist !

this is why i rarely finish anything and im already on to the next thing ...