Joule Thief

[jeanna]

@Gary,
I am sorry to hear about your last 4 daze... too bad about burning stuff up.

I am thinking  the ideal setup might  be a string of inductors   with a cap between  each inductor . ...  if the cap was  the right size  ( and the inductors are all the same size ) the whole thing  should  resonate as one unit .

Next door, I am trying to use the pulses from the lower basic level joule thief to change the output of various combinations of leds and inductors and caps.

Recently, I had a segment of the circuit that I split into 2 segments. I was trying to be able to add lights and not have other parts of the circuit change. For the longest time/ many tries, I got nowhere, but then I added another inductor and spread the cap to span across 2 inductors. When I did that, the other part of the circuit did not effect the one I had just manipulated.

So, I think you are correct here.

As you are suggesting, I was trying to add caps in a line between inductors today too.
No luck so far. (The entire circuit went out today whenever I put on the new one. aargh!)
As with you, my progress has felt slow.
I make a success one day then go along for another 10 days with no more progress.

And, I think there is much more to be explored.
I am very glad to hear of your experiments.
Thank you for sharing your ideas.

jeanna

@stprue,
I am not sure how I can help you??
but I do not trust your power supply. I know they are supposed to be cool, but you even discovered a leak. Why not use a AAA  or AA like the rest of us?
Then you can be sure and there will never be a question. You can use the wall power to recharge the battery.

I am also afraid that I am unable to follow what you are doing with the lighting a neon and also recharging... It is my fault. I have never made the slayer or kubikop self charger. I haven't even made the jesus self charger, and it is right here!
I am sure I would be able to follow along if I had.

sorry,
jeanna

[nievesoliveras]

...
I am sure I would be able to follow along if I had.

sorry,
jeanna

Maybe you know what I am going to ask you.
There is a very small circuit tha uses 5 volts to light a cfl.
I was checking it today and it only uses two transistors, three cpacitors, one resistor and a small transformer.

The thing is that it lights the cfl brightly. The secret lies inside the turns of that transformer and the conections to the other pieces.

On one of those findings of yours. Have you not found for cassuality the transformer inside schematic?

The model is the "TDK TAD170"

Jesus

[innovation_station]

@resonanceman

I am on the same boat. My transformer got brooken, I lost my solder iron and my power supply got shorted on an experiment today.

I am way behind now.
This hobby of mine is getting too expensive.

@ist
That you are making seems something from the science fiction movies.

@stprue
I wish you good luck on your experiments.

Same for the other members.

Jesus

CAN WE PLEASE CALL IT SCIENCE REALITY 

WILLIAM

PRETTY PLEASE .....   

[stprue]

@Gary,
I am sorry to hear about your last 4 daze... too bad about burning stuff up.

Next door, I am trying to use the pulses from the lower basic level joule thief to change the output of various combinations of leds and inductors and caps.

Recently, I had a segment of the circuit that I split into 2 segments. I was trying to be able to add lights and not have other parts of the circuit change. For the longest time/ many tries, I got nowhere, but then I added another inductor and spread the cap to span across 2 inductors. When I did that, the other part of the circuit did not effect the one I had just manipulated.

So, I think you are correct here.

As you are suggesting, I was trying to add caps in a line between inductors today too.
No luck so far. (The entire circuit went out today whenever I put on the new one. aargh!)
As with you, my progress has felt slow.
I make a success one day then go along for another 10 days with no more progress.

And, I think there is much more to be explored.
I am very glad to hear of your experiments.
Thank you for sharing your ideas.

jeanna

@stprue,
I am not sure how I can help you??
but I do not trust your power supply. I know they are supposed to be cool, but you even discovered a leak. Why not use a AAA  or AA like the rest of us?
Then you can be sure and there will never be a question. You can use the wall power to recharge the battery.

I am also afraid that I am unable to follow what you are doing with the lighting a neon and also recharging... It is my fault. I have never made the slayer or kubikop self charger. I haven't even made the jesus self charger, and it is right here!
I am sure I would be able to follow along if I had.

sorry,
jeanna

Even before I discovered that my power supply is inducting energy I always used a battery as well.  What I see in these experiments is quite amazing but nobody seems to notice.  8 Turns at 126vdc right now...not as good as my last results but still better them anything I have ever achived on a basic JT.  With so many taps to feed back...well I need help because it see to good to be true..right and I do not have the time to speed up this positive or negative process.   

[stprue]

WOW I jst tossed in my neo winding into the out put and it was going up.......and this is after I up plugeged it.  Then it dropped.  hahahaha I didn't even try to loop it yet wow.  I THINK THIS IS THE BEST RESULTS I HAVE HAD.