Joule Thief

[stprue]

@Jeanna

Thank you for your response.  I am in the process of winding my biggo 3.5" tor toriod with 30 guage mag wire.  I'm not sure if this will over saturate this ferrite but in the end it should have somewhere around 450-500 turns. 

[cletushowell]

Does this make any sense
spiral square wave spiral square
wave the spiral goes thru the square
so i think what God was telling me now i dont know anything
about frequency waves but essentialy the straight
poles are the square and the spiral is the
the power between so like moray had a antenna to air
a stright pole then his granite cells then a straight pole to water
I think the juel theif the batteries are just
straight polorised rods well anyways
hope someone smarter then me gets it
that circuit was cool you had tge wire color
right red blue red blue you probly didnt know you
created a magnetic plasma of indigo

[jeanna]

Welcome stevenchi...
I look forward to the charging jtc.
Your board is very nicely laid out and labeled.
Excellent.

Just a note about pic size:
Please run your pix through a graphics program like gimp (free) to modify the image size to be under 600 pixels wide.
Pirate doesn't have a lot of time these days and he must turn off the thread, download and change then exchange his modified pic for yours, so it will help everybody if you do it yourself.

@Jeanna

Thank you for your response.  I am in the process of winding my biggo 3.5" tor toriod with 30 guage mag wire.  I'm not sure if this will over saturate this ferrite but in the end it should have somewhere around 450-500 turns.

that biggo is very high permeability. I am sure you will saturate it easily.
2T,6T,330T is what I used.
Please let us know!
Just be very careful with that 30 gauge stuff.
When you get the super high voltages that you will get, you are likely to also get a break in the insulation.
(I have kept the max to 28 gauge for that reason.)
I put on 330 turns and I got over 1800v. It was probably over 2000 volts. I didn't want to break my scope to find out!

jeanna

[stprue]

Yes the insulation can also scrape off very easily also so it is a risky coil to build.  If it holds up it should be a fun toy.  I will let you know what it is done.

Not sure how I want to measure the voltage if I am sucessful...probably resistors!

[jeanna]

 
Measure voltage?
That's easy, light a cfl, then light 3 LoA 20led bulbs! then you can say it has lots.
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jeanna