Joule Thief

[Pirate88179]

@ All:

Here is my video of a 48" tube lit from my earth battery:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kL8ys8m0-4

Bill

[electricme]

@Jeanna,
How to solder up a 2N3055 transistor to make the HV output on Hazens1 way.

@anyone,
I have a technical question now,
What is the easiest/best way to solder up the 3055 to make this a joulethief for HV?

thank you.

jeanna

Hmmm this is a good way to stop the angries, lol.

Put the 2N3055 upside down on the table, with the "pins" uppermost, as you can see on the pic below.

The pin on the left side is the Base, the pin on the right is the Emitter, the case is the Collector.

I used a ordinary file to remove the plateing so I could solder directly onto the brass caseing, this helps a lot in connecting.

WINDING info.
All turns in the same direction, over, through and under, back up outside and accross and down through and under etc etc.
All coils wound the same.
Hope this helps you.

jim

[jeanna]

Good day jim,
I know I pronounced that wrong but...
Thanks for the description of the 3055 setup.

I took out 1/2 of that medium thing. It only barely flicks the littlest bit of the basic light. The secondary here has counteracted the primary!
By now it is almost half empty and there is still no waves above .3v on the secondary. Every once in 10 turns I pop in a different toroid to see if the set up is broken. nope, they all work fine. Just not this one. I looked at one of the other failures using this med. the one I made like slayer's it gives 17volts and 10KHz . nothing really, but at least something. The placement of the turns and that they are not perfect is most likely the difference there. I ran out of wire and skipped alot and it is way better.

OK I started the really big one.

It is much more gratifying.

I get 19volts from the primary plus a 7 turn secondary just to find any blind spots. I will continue tomorrow. I had to end on an encouraging note, or I would waste my sleep doing it.

Hey congratulations on your multilayered set up. I like it even though it is all rectified. Maybe someday you can unrectify it! and use the ac somewhere. HA!

@Bill.
I am on my way. wow 48 inch!
I knew you could do it!

Light up that bowling green and play some pins!

jeanna

[xee2]

Lower current with "new" coil. I changed collector coil from 5 turns to 10 turns. Tube sometimes needs a helping touch to get it to light.

[WilbyInebriated]

@ All:

Here is my video of a 48" tube lit from my earth battery:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kL8ys8m0-4

Bill

i gave it 5 stars bill. i see just now you got my note about lighting 2 like you did before. i wonder how many led chains it will light up? if you're lighting four foot fluoros it should have enough to run 4 chains of 100 leds also?