Joule Thief

[Pirate88179]

Gadget:

I got the same "you do not have permission to...." when I tried looking at your pics.  I have no idea what is going on.  If the other pics of the past also do this than, Stefan must have accidentally changed something somewhere.  I am sure others are seeing this and he will be aware of it soon.

Articknight:

What is the alignment of your electrodes and what are you using?  This appears to make all of the difference.  Al says the ones he is selling get about 2 volts and, I don't recall the mA's but I think like 9 or so.  I am at 1.95 volts and around 9 mA's as well.   Jeanna is correct, you really need a supercap in parallel with the EB.  I accidentally did this a while back in the very beginning not even knowing what I was doing (not that I do now, ha ha) and it lit an led without a jt circuit.  So, with a JT circuit, you should be able to light multiple leds.  Let me know if I can help.

BIll

[xee2]

@ Bill

1.5 million volt tesla coil. Notice how long the sparks are.

http://www.thegleam.com/ke5fx/tesla.html

[Pirate88179]

Holly Crap!!  That would look great in my garden!!!  Gee, did you notice it looked like he "borrowed" a transformer from a local power company pole?


How else could they be measuring the volts? (On the stun gun) As I said, this is a Police supply catalog that you have to be in law enforcement (or Investigations) to receive.  I mean, other than fraud, is there another "standard" someone could be using here to measure voltage?  I never heard of one.

Of course, the ad did say this works from a good distance but, I don't think they meant like that Tesla coil, ha ha.  Can you imagine that?  Some guy tries to rob you and you fire up something like that Tesla coil was putting out?  I believe he would need a change of shorts.

I am pretty sure it does not do that though.

Bill

[gadgetmall]

@ Bill

1.5 million volt tesla coil. Notice how long the sparks are.

http://www.thegleam.com/ke5fx/tesla.html

Bill i got one at the flea market . its rechargeable has a safety a bright light and is rechargeable 50,000 volts for 10 dollars new ! Very Nice . I would post a pic of it but it wont show it . Its 2/3 inch wide X 6 inches lonf and 1/2 in thick !

Gadget

[altrez]

@jeanna

Hey I never left, it's just that I work 60 hours a week have two kids 4 cell phones a wife 2 cars house pets and all the bills that come along with that. So needless to say I can spend make 4 hours a week working on projects If I am lucky!

I still haven't even took my Scope out of the box!

Take Care,

-Altrez