Joule Thief

[Pirate88179]

@ IST:

You better be careful up there in Canada.  Just look what the Canadian government did to John Hutchison.  (according to him)  They seized all of his lab equipment and took all of his stuff he was playing with.  Of course, his experiments may have wiped out every TV within 20 miles so, maybe they had to do something, ha ha.  Just be careful.

Bill

[nievesoliveras]

@jesus,
My graphics software is still gone, so I will leave it to you to mod your pic, if I may.

BTW thanks for posting the evilmadscientist pictures of making a joule thief little toroid style. It helps, I am sure.

!- the rectifier diode is only used to measure the rectified voltage coming off the single turn. It may be what you mean, but I want to be clear that the voltage going into the array of lights is NOT rectified.

1a- so, the drawing of the single wind around the hand wound toroid should perhaps show that without the diode bridge, the secondary feeds to the array of lights.

     Does that make sense?

2- The led you call blue or white is the one I removed after I was sure the circuit was working.

Thanks for making this drawing.

(I have even lost the original of that which I posted in december.)

jeanna

I will make the changes you recomend and repost tomorrow.

Jesus

[innovation_station]

this ring is far from done...

it needs to be contained ...

we will get there tho   soon enough ...

ist

maybe a steel belt round the out side ...

[jeanna]

Hello jeanna

Yes I would just run the negative side of the coil to the transistor then the positive side of the coil back to source positive.
I added a coil that was made just like the first one to the JT circuit and the curent draw only went up about 20 mill amps more.

I then added three more coils all differant and the curent draw went up around 20 mill amps for everone attached.
I allso added a transformer like in one of my videos were I attached them to a little JT and it put out so much voltage it fried my meter when I tried to read it.

The meter made a screeching sound then it sounded like an ignition coil inside the meter.

I see what you mean.
It is ALSO my experience and very believable, that this would be as you say. Each toroid circuit of mine takes 22 milliamps. So, adding them would be the same.

I need to catch up on your videos. Thanks for mentioning it. I saw gadgetmail's motor video last night. this is so excellent.

sorry to hear about your meter.

This is something unconventional for sure.

@jesus,
Thanks for helping make things so clear. It is helping all of us, I am sure.

thank you,

jeanna

[Freezer]

You might try energizing your earth battery with the camera cell with pulsed dc using some diodes.  The effect doesn't last but it's an interesting effect.  The cell I made here is nothing special with only 2 layers. 1 layer copper and other layer iron. I did wrap the 1 layer with 2 copper windings for another experiment, but here I only used 1 of the copper windings for the water battery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fR8ek_wFSI&feature=channel_page