Joule Thief 101

[MileHigh]

They will be answered in the not too distant future.  Sorry, but right now I am giving anyone interested a chance to take up the challenge.

[sm0ky2]

let us take a moment to ponder this situation...

nearly 1,000 posts
nearly 300 posters
nearly 150,000 readers

and not a single one understands resonance....
except for Milehigh, who has never built a resonant device in his life.
Be it mechanical, audible, optical, atomic, thermal, or electromagnetic......

Physics describes all 6 of these situations in the exact same manner,
all of which MH declares to be "wrong".

From this there seems to be only two possibilities to deduce....

1) MH has something revolutionary to the whole of science, which he will soon disclose to us.
or
2) He is completely full of himself.

Either way, it should be entertaining...

[MileHigh]

Smoky2:

You have to stop this business of either making a straw man or saying things about me that you can't possibly know.  I could just as easily say that in the 1980s you worked as a male stripper on the Las Vegas strip and made good tips, but I can't possibly know that, can I?  Stop the nonsense.

I am curious to know if you can cite an example of thermal resonance.  The Google search is somewhat nebulous.

I have absolutely nothing revolutionary to offer.  I asked for simple answers and you said that you couldn't do that.  Your complex answers started to resemble a word salad.  If you can't answer simple questions with simple answers, then for me that means that you don't have a fundamental and basic understanding of resonance.  You are welcome to prove me wrong any time you want.

You can really do without the fake swagger.  You are supposed to be "searching for resonance" with Magluvin with some kind of very simple Joule Thief circuit.  I believe that Magluvin talks about a resonating coil that forms part of the standard Joule Thief transformer.  So why don't you guys take whatever simple variant on a Joule Thief circuit that you are supposed to be working on and draw up a full voltage and current timing diagram for the circuit on paper that shows how the circuit is "supposed" to resonate and show where the benefits are.  In theory you should be able to conceptualize this on paper and show what you are supposed to see and then implement it on the bench.  Why not put your money where your mouth is?

However, I have a feeling that we are never going to see anything even remotely close to this.  What probably will happen is that you are going to "hunt" for resonance on the circuit itself and try all sorts of variations and look for the "magic."  It will probably end up like some kind of needle in a haystack search, an exercise in trial and error.  Turn pots and hope for the best.  Will we ever see any kind of timing diagram that clearly shows a "resonant Joule Thief" I wonder.  At least I annotated the main part of the timing diagram for a standard Joule Thief and I could easily have added the approximate current traces myself.

MileHigh

[ramset]

Sooo

MH
did you ever build a resonant anything ? {Please In one word ...or less
where tryin to cut Bandwidth Costs around here ]



A side note to All

Happy Saint Patty'''s Day .

and don't be breakin the Wifes Crystal !

[MileHigh]

Chet:

In another life I probably did an electronics lab on parallel and series LC circuits.

What about you?

MileHigh