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Thanks for the instructional video. You're confusing efficiency with power consumption. The efficiency is the power output divided by the power input. You didn't do any calculation of that value. Also, the C458 and other transistors you showed are all Japanese with the collector in the center....

Hey, yeah, now that' pretty cool. Now you can have a fire to put too many irons in! :~)

You're one of the very few who has used that 1N4001 reverse voltage protection diode and you are very wise to do that. You can see why it's absolutely necessary. Remove it and replace it with two white or blue LEDs in series, connected in the same direction with their cathodes towards the base,...

I checked your website and I could not find any information on the potentiometer part number or value in ohms.

Put a 10 or 22 uF capacitor across the LED. This will filter out the pulses and give you straight DC, and you should get the same result as if you had connected the flashing LED across a 3 or 4V battery. Without the capacitor, the pulses keep resetting the flasher inside the LED, so it never or...

"Music" is so bad I had to click the mute button. It would be helpful if you showed the battery current. In my opinion, most of the power transistors have too low current gain to give good performance in a Joule Thief. There are a few exceptions, one is the KSC2334. Series LEDs don't light up...

Holy smokes! That looks more like a Sci Fi laboratory than a workbench! What's in the tin can? Coolant for your mini nuclear reactor? ;-)

I've been making the circuit board long and slim so that it acts as the battery holder - see watch?v=I7DYw8Nf0Fc. I think I should change, and use the plastic battery holder as the circuit board. Just glue the parts to it with clear silicone seal.

He says cheap glass and metal. But he didn't say that his system requires a dish that tracks the sunlight, so there are motors, gears and mechanical parts that could add considerably to the cost. I'm thinking that the difference in costs is not that great. But it does eliminate most of the env...

Yes, shunting the base bias to negative is not the most efficient way to turn off the JT. I do it several ways in my recent blog. You may have never thought that a red LED could turn off the JT. It's at rustybolt dot info and click on the link to my blog.

BTW, the schematic and pictorial wiring diagram on the board are a huge help for someone who wants to replicate the circuit. I've got a lot of other JT circuits in my blog at rustybolt dot info slash wordpress - thanks again.

@IowaCoffee

You don't have to read the resistor code. All you have to do is connect the resistor to the test leads of a cheap Digital MultiMeter set to ohms and read the value off the display.

@youspinmerightrounds

This circuit depends on the breakdown of the junction, like a zener diode, which is why it requires 12V. A true Esaki or tunnel diode requires a fraction of 1V and must have a diode with a junction especially made for the electrons to tunnel through it. Also, transistors w...

@jonnydavro

You can watch my first Youtube video (20 sec) of my Blue Blinky project (also in my blog) where some of them are blinking until I shine a light on them. It's watch?v=I7DYw8Nf0Fc.

I wish more people had left comments before my old blog got removed. Only after it was gone did people s...

@zackthegoth

I meant no animosity towards you in what I said. As I said, Canadians are Americans, too. Our economies are "intertwingled", and what's good for one is good for the other. Back to the JT stuff.

I built Xee2vids' flashing JT Youtube ?v=LQinhM1CxkM but I'm disappointed in the resul...

@KyleCarrington

That's how the capacitor in my Supercharged JT works: it pumps up the circuit to a higher speed. That's why I call it supercharged. Instead of running at under 100kHz, it runs at over 200kHz. I've noticed that in some JTs, the cap causes it to jump into a mode where it's bright...

Kool. The schematic shows the LED in series but the on the proto board it looks like they are all in parallel. The schematic shows 12VDC battery, does it work ok at that voltage, or is that a typo and it should be 1.5V? That brings up the question of is it a Joule Thief, since it may not reall...

Holy smokin' rotor! That thing is really spinning fast, so fast it's scary. If it keeps going, it might fly apart due to centrifugal force. Of course it helps a whole lot that the bearings are magnetic and super low friction. You should put some black marks on the rotor so that the spinning is m...

The LM117, LM217, and LM317 are the same except for the temperature range. The LM217 is difficult to find because no one wants to pay a higher price for a wide temp range part, so everything is LM317. I built this circuit without the inductor and with a bit larger transformer and the transistor...

I got and built a few of the through hole (not surface mount) ones. They were circuit boards only, did not come with any parts. I used paper clips for the holders as shown in vid. They work okay, but sometimes I want to have one lit in room light, but the sensitivity is so high that it goes ou...

@jeannacav

You're very innovative. But the LED light requires 2 or 3 watts to be as bright as on the AC line. And a single AA cell is just too low power to do that. It needs more batteries. I think I'd start with 8 AA cells and use one of the circuits that Xee2 (xee2vids) has here on YT for a LED...

Resonance is when a combination of an inductor and capacitor are connected in series or parallel. I'm looking for a capacitor in your circuit. I don't see one.

I think everyone should fasten their camera to a heavy object, like a brick. It would get rid of a lot of that jerky swerving motion that plagues videos. Same in this case - the video would've been much better if the camera was left on the table through the whole video.

@mrgalleria

I'm not aware of who "they" are. I've examined some of Tesla's patents. Now I know I really am being snookered.

Actually, the Joule Thief is acting as a current limiter to prevent the 3V battery from trying to push a large amount of current through the 1.5V cells The advantages I see are that the JT pulses the current which may have some benefit to charging the cells; and it's possible that the JT may be ...

Bifilar wound means that both windings have the same number of turns. If the primary winding has such a high voltage at 12V supply, then the feedback winding has the same voltage since it's the same number of turns. This is Really Bad. The feedback winding should be 10 or 12 turns, about 1/4 t...

@Pirate88179

I got some Maxwell 2600 Farad ultracaps. With this circuit, it would take a day or two to charge one up. :~o

@bennjanse

I was disappointed to see you use the clip leads, when you had a soldering iron right next to the circuit. Clip lead 'spaghetti' just adds confusion in a picture or video. It would have been a lot easier to follow without the spaghetti.