@JDK1981 never really made any its kinda hard to explain in general i usually just tell people to buy a disposable camera and i can tell them what to do. you pretty much just alter the cam circuit and drive it at a higher voltage. if you have a disposable cam though i can message you how to do it
@Magneticitist yes i do. actually i made one already but not with the joule thief on it. its works good but im trying to get more light out of it with out over powering the transistor on it. I use these as Emergency lights. Right now mine runs on a aa batt(1.5v) and out put is about 19.5 v will this kick that up even more?
@JDK1981 well if you use the AC from the oscillator on the disposable cam circuit the output from the transformer is around 250-300v, so if u are lighting a CFL u have to assume its in the hundreds also. the circuit is designed for an AA but i have no problem pushing it at 3-4v. i get good light feeding it 4v and it doesn't kill the transistor. just use a 25 ohm rheostat across the input rail. i added a hv cap from a cfl ballast in series with my cfl to get it brighter.
hello, I use another flashlight circuit from kodak camera and really works! but the CFL isn´t bright enough. how can modify this circuit to make more brighter the lamp? thanks
@SpeedMetal4635 well for one you have to make sure you are using the AC from the circuits transformer and not the rectified DC. this will increase your output a little. you can also try adding a high value AC cap across the output legs also. i simply recommend using a larger battery pack to drive the circuit. i used a 4.5v battery pack.
i really recommend buying some 3.7v 4Ah batteries online. those will work great at providing brightness and last for a long time.
@Magneticitist Hey... I always wanted to build this one, but when you go to photobucket, the tutorial, the image is about as big as a postage stamp and completely illegible / useless...
@KyleCarrington lol i just noticed that.. wtf? it used to be 3 separate larger pics... the thing is this is a great learning circuit.. it seems so complicated if u are new to circuits but learning how it works sort of opens your eyes to a lot of things.. for example whats the first step? learning how its powered. u can see the battery and holder leads. how does it turn on? well u know it has that button on the front u have to press right? so u have to assume when powered, that button starts it
@Magneticitist I have never built this (obviously) but I did build a CFL lamp out of a driver I found in a scanner. It was plug and play. I totally agree, I actually took the time to look at the (very simple) small PC board, and draw out a schematic so I could see how the 12v -> Xv HV circuit worked. I'm still not sure whether it is actually an inverter (HV AC) or just a transformation to HV DC pulsed, tho. To be honest.
@KyleCarrington so if u take the board out, u can find that same button on the underside of it. u can see how its a cheap press-in button. so the best way is to really just solder that together, and make the on switch a disconnect between the battery and the circuit. the rest is even easier.. u know the flash is in essence a high voltage discharge, so u can assume the capacitor legs are the hot and the ground. its a polarized cap so u can also assume thats a DC hot and ground right?
@KyleCarrington next step would be to locate the rectifier. its usually the obvious black one. if u want to run lights then we want the AC of course so we need to take that DC hot wire and tap it before the diode. u can just tap the diode leg before the cathode. next step of course would be to just remove the cap altogether as well as the flash bulb. create bulb terminals from your new AC hot and ground, add a switch before the positive input battery, and throw a 25 ohm rheostat in there , boom
@SpeedMetal4635 this circuit can provide some nice warm lighting in a room, but i have found that using certain LEDs in a circuit can provide more brightness for less energy cost, the color of the lighting is just a little unfamiliar. you have to get used to the "blueish" tint of the led lighting.
@Magneticitist can you tell me what that deep humming noise throughout all of the video is? i love it because it sounds very futuristic, like some sci-fi lab in a movie :)
@hardstyle905 well if you are talking about something in the background, (other than the frequency noise from the CFL circuit), its probably one of several pulse motors i had running at the time. that camera is so shitty it picks up all that stuff without filtering it out.
pretty much anything that operated at high voltage would buttrape that cameras microphone lol
@Magneticitist i watched some of your pulse motor vids and i don't think it's that. but i did notice it on another one of your videos, i left you a comment there.
hello, I try to do this project, but don´t works, I read the tutorial but i´m using another type of flashlight, is much bigger than boomerman uses, and is so much more complicated because have a lot of components. Well can you upload your own tutorial easy to understand for us? thanks a lot and great job..
@SpeedMetal4635 ive tried bigger flash circuits also, like one from a polaroid. it was harder to get working cause u have to find the right switches and such, and that one worked from only 6v and up. i will try to make a tutorial for you here in a bit. but since the circuits vary somewhat i may need to find out which particular one u are using.
@Magneticitist thanks, I will still trying to do this project, is very interesting. There are very poor info in the internet. I will wait patiently for your tutorial. Thanks. and sorry for my english :S
@eloid777 all the cams are pretty much the same. you rip the small circuit board from the plastic case and u end up with a little pcb with the AA battery terminals on one end, and the capacitor/flash bulb output on the other. you just remove the capacitor and flash bulb and the circuit can be used to tap either high voltage AC or DC, depending on where u tap from, before or after the circuit's diode. there is also a switch (metal push switch) on the bottom that u need to solder so it powers on.
@eloid777 oops.. i may have to create my own diagram soon lol. for the camera the easiest thing to do is use a disposable cam. i used an old polaroid once, and it worked great, but it was much harder to setup because it had some complicated switches and variables. there may be some disposable units that work better than others, but to me they are all the same for the most part. i try to find one for under 5 bucks, or for free if i can.
Hey Magneticitist thanx for givin people the link to the TEEP forum and the topic that I posted. Its good to know that it is getting out there to people that want to learn more or are intrested in these types of projects. There many things that these circuits are capable of that a lot of people do not know about or understand. One of the things most people dont know about these type of circuits is the capability of wireless electrical transmission! If they visit TEEP forum they will learn!
Hey Magneticitist thanx for givin people the link to the TEEP forum and the topic that I posted. Its good to know that it is getting out there to people that want to learn more or are intrested in these types of projects. There many things that these circuits are capable of that a lot of people do not know about or understand. One of the things most people dont know about these type of circuits is the capability of wireless electrical transmission! If they visit TEEP forum they will learn!
Holy usable light batman! Nice production and the mic interference says alot about your circuit. I am getting similiar light from my flouro wirelessly on a little more power, but not quite as bright. Any idea of the amp draw? I guess we won't be going for the candles when the power falls off the grid. I bet your just praying for a brown out!
Very nice light man. Those are a great idea and I have a ton of those 3.6v battery packs...gonna have to look that up and make one...or three.
Funny you should say that about the pope because there actually is a big pine cone at the vatican next to the obilisk...lol. They worship them because they resemble the pineal gland...or some funky ass witch doctor bullshit.
you got plans for this you could send me ?
JDK1981 4 days ago
@JDK1981 never really made any its kinda hard to explain in general i usually just tell people to buy a disposable camera and i can tell them what to do. you pretty much just alter the cam circuit and drive it at a higher voltage. if you have a disposable cam though i can message you how to do it
Magneticitist 3 days ago
@Magneticitist yes i do. actually i made one already but not with the joule thief on it. its works good but im trying to get more light out of it with out over powering the transistor on it. I use these as Emergency lights. Right now mine runs on a aa batt(1.5v) and out put is about 19.5 v will this kick that up even more?
JDK1981 1 day ago
@JDK1981 well if you use the AC from the oscillator on the disposable cam circuit the output from the transformer is around 250-300v, so if u are lighting a CFL u have to assume its in the hundreds also. the circuit is designed for an AA but i have no problem pushing it at 3-4v. i get good light feeding it 4v and it doesn't kill the transistor. just use a 25 ohm rheostat across the input rail. i added a hv cap from a cfl ballast in series with my cfl to get it brighter.
Magneticitist 1 day ago
nice!
johncarl43447 3 months ago
hello, I use another flashlight circuit from kodak camera and really works! but the CFL isn´t bright enough. how can modify this circuit to make more brighter the lamp? thanks
SpeedMetal4635 4 months ago
@SpeedMetal4635 well for one you have to make sure you are using the AC from the circuits transformer and not the rectified DC. this will increase your output a little. you can also try adding a high value AC cap across the output legs also. i simply recommend using a larger battery pack to drive the circuit. i used a 4.5v battery pack.
i really recommend buying some 3.7v 4Ah batteries online. those will work great at providing brightness and last for a long time.
Magneticitist 4 months ago
@Magneticitist Hey... I always wanted to build this one, but when you go to photobucket, the tutorial, the image is about as big as a postage stamp and completely illegible / useless...
KyleCarrington 3 months ago
@KyleCarrington lol i just noticed that.. wtf? it used to be 3 separate larger pics... the thing is this is a great learning circuit.. it seems so complicated if u are new to circuits but learning how it works sort of opens your eyes to a lot of things.. for example whats the first step? learning how its powered. u can see the battery and holder leads. how does it turn on? well u know it has that button on the front u have to press right? so u have to assume when powered, that button starts it
Magneticitist 3 months ago
@Magneticitist I have never built this (obviously) but I did build a CFL lamp out of a driver I found in a scanner. It was plug and play. I totally agree, I actually took the time to look at the (very simple) small PC board, and draw out a schematic so I could see how the 12v -> Xv HV circuit worked. I'm still not sure whether it is actually an inverter (HV AC) or just a transformation to HV DC pulsed, tho. To be honest.
KyleCarrington 3 months ago
@KyleCarrington so if u take the board out, u can find that same button on the underside of it. u can see how its a cheap press-in button. so the best way is to really just solder that together, and make the on switch a disconnect between the battery and the circuit. the rest is even easier.. u know the flash is in essence a high voltage discharge, so u can assume the capacitor legs are the hot and the ground. its a polarized cap so u can also assume thats a DC hot and ground right?
Magneticitist 3 months ago
@KyleCarrington next step would be to locate the rectifier. its usually the obvious black one. if u want to run lights then we want the AC of course so we need to take that DC hot wire and tap it before the diode. u can just tap the diode leg before the cathode. next step of course would be to just remove the cap altogether as well as the flash bulb. create bulb terminals from your new AC hot and ground, add a switch before the positive input battery, and throw a 25 ohm rheostat in there , boom
Magneticitist 3 months ago
@SpeedMetal4635 this circuit can provide some nice warm lighting in a room, but i have found that using certain LEDs in a circuit can provide more brightness for less energy cost, the color of the lighting is just a little unfamiliar. you have to get used to the "blueish" tint of the led lighting.
Magneticitist 4 months ago
@Magneticitist can you tell me what that deep humming noise throughout all of the video is? i love it because it sounds very futuristic, like some sci-fi lab in a movie :)
is it a generator or a pump or something?
hardstyle905 1 month ago
@hardstyle905 well if you are talking about something in the background, (other than the frequency noise from the CFL circuit), its probably one of several pulse motors i had running at the time. that camera is so shitty it picks up all that stuff without filtering it out.
pretty much anything that operated at high voltage would buttrape that cameras microphone lol
Magneticitist 1 month ago
@Magneticitist i watched some of your pulse motor vids and i don't think it's that. but i did notice it on another one of your videos, i left you a comment there.
hardstyle905 1 month ago
hello, I try to do this project, but don´t works, I read the tutorial but i´m using another type of flashlight, is much bigger than boomerman uses, and is so much more complicated because have a lot of components. Well can you upload your own tutorial easy to understand for us? thanks a lot and great job..
SpeedMetal4635 4 months ago
@SpeedMetal4635 ive tried bigger flash circuits also, like one from a polaroid. it was harder to get working cause u have to find the right switches and such, and that one worked from only 6v and up. i will try to make a tutorial for you here in a bit. but since the circuits vary somewhat i may need to find out which particular one u are using.
Magneticitist 4 months ago
@Magneticitist thanks, I will still trying to do this project, is very interesting. There are very poor info in the internet. I will wait patiently for your tutorial. Thanks. and sorry for my english :S
SpeedMetal4635 4 months ago
the web link is bad cant read the text
eloid777 11 months ago
@eloid777 all the cams are pretty much the same. you rip the small circuit board from the plastic case and u end up with a little pcb with the AA battery terminals on one end, and the capacitor/flash bulb output on the other. you just remove the capacitor and flash bulb and the circuit can be used to tap either high voltage AC or DC, depending on where u tap from, before or after the circuit's diode. there is also a switch (metal push switch) on the bottom that u need to solder so it powers on.
Magneticitist 11 months ago
@Magneticitist
what the configuaration is the joule thief wired up as?
eloid777 11 months ago
@eloid777 it might be on your end, i just clicked the link and it worked. or maybe it was down when you tried it the first time.
Magneticitist 11 months ago
@Magneticitist
when you enlarge the file(bmp) the fonts get messy cant read them
eloid777 11 months ago
can you draw your circuit, what kinda of dispoable camera the old film types? there hard to find with everythink gone digital?
eloid777 11 months ago
@eloid777 oops.. i may have to create my own diagram soon lol. for the camera the easiest thing to do is use a disposable cam. i used an old polaroid once, and it worked great, but it was much harder to setup because it had some complicated switches and variables. there may be some disposable units that work better than others, but to me they are all the same for the most part. i try to find one for under 5 bucks, or for free if i can.
Magneticitist 11 months ago
well mama told me when i was young said sit beside me my only son..... be a simple man lol love that song its great!!
coolelectronicdude 1 year ago
@coolelectronicdude lol me too man
Magneticitist 1 year ago
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Hey Magneticitist thanx for givin people the link to the TEEP forum and the topic that I posted. Its good to know that it is getting out there to people that want to learn more or are intrested in these types of projects. There many things that these circuits are capable of that a lot of people do not know about or understand. One of the things most people dont know about these type of circuits is the capability of wireless electrical transmission! If they visit TEEP forum they will learn!
boomerman2004 1 year ago
Hey Magneticitist thanx for givin people the link to the TEEP forum and the topic that I posted. Its good to know that it is getting out there to people that want to learn more or are intrested in these types of projects. There many things that these circuits are capable of that a lot of people do not know about or understand. One of the things most people dont know about these type of circuits is the capability of wireless electrical transmission! If they visit TEEP forum they will learn!
boomerman2004 1 year ago
Holy usable light batman! Nice production and the mic interference says alot about your circuit. I am getting similiar light from my flouro wirelessly on a little more power, but not quite as bright. Any idea of the amp draw? I guess we won't be going for the candles when the power falls off the grid. I bet your just praying for a brown out!
Br0kenMan 1 year ago
@Br0kenMan every time it rains =)
Magneticitist 1 year ago
@Br0kenMan cant measure the amp draw at the moment.. burned out all my meters playing with fire lol
Magneticitist 1 year ago
Very nice light man. Those are a great idea and I have a ton of those 3.6v battery packs...gonna have to look that up and make one...or three.
Funny you should say that about the pope because there actually is a big pine cone at the vatican next to the obilisk...lol. They worship them because they resemble the pineal gland...or some funky ass witch doctor bullshit.
MrAnguswangus 1 year ago