Joule Thief

[jeanna]

Hi everybody,
I have been camping and will do some more this coming week.

I just want to say 2 things:
1- my jtc  lights are awesome!!
3 jtc lights and the whole (13 foot = small) camper is lit up in the way a normal lit up room is. The batteries last and I can read or do whatever and see perfectly... day after day.

2- I also recharged a crystalized dead NiCd battery with the spikes and after the 7th or so day, the battery started to keep the charge. This is after watching it hold less and less with each recharge.
So the most the jtc lit up with this previously bad battery was 3 hours. It charged up to 1.36v and lit the light.
This was the BJT light spot.

Then one day I closed the box down and the thing got shorted somewhere.
I recharged it so the battery would be ok, but have not continued cycling it.
I am very encouraged by this as it follows the bedini system of reconditioning and recharging, only, I am using a joule thief to do this.

There will be much to catch up on when I return.
This group is still experimenting with very exciting ideas.

See you when I get back  ,

jeanna

[innovation_station]

i whipped up a design last night ... 

6" iron pipe ...  sliced ...  4 6' wires ...  3 turn per lap devided by 3's

so you have 12 coils total 3 are as 1 and lapped .. 

this gets bridges b4 the coils ... 


enjoy ... 

maybe ill build it .. maybe i wont!

W

this is MY  stage too ...  : )  for my !PAC POWER RING : p

ILL THROW ONE TOGATHER ON A GOLD MINE JUST SO YOU CAN VISIUALIZE HOW I WILL WINDE IT!

[Pirate88179]

This fellow used a multiplier to go from 20k volts to 80k.  I believe he used a Cockcroft-Walton multiplier for this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CltmVL4UguA&feature=grec

His arcs are huge and actually look a lot like flames to me rather than sparks.

This is unreal and may be related to our work here.

Bill

[Mk1]

@all

I made a new video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiLcbTBewhw

Running the motor/generator , detail on the connections ...

[xee2]

CosmicFarmer was able to get a large reduction in current draw using the following addition to the slayer007 SEC circuit. When I tried it with a 6 volt battery supply the current was 150 mA without the CosmicFarmer addition and 115 mA with the CosmicFarmer addition. So it really does decrease current draw. The output voltage appeared to be the same in both cases since both would light a fluorescent tube.