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Uploaded by on Jul 22, 2009

Small Joule Thief With 9 white LED draw about 250 mA at 1.5V the battery was a little under 1.3 Volt at the video time

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  • cool, what kind of circuit did you use? can you give it to me?

  • @boryshacker It's a rather simple circuit the one found on most web site all parts and component are really not critical this joule thief cost me a big 0$ and work quite well too :P webpages.charter.net/dawill/tm­oranwms/Elec_JT.html

  • 1.5V x 0.250 = 0.375 Watts from your experiment.

    2.1V x 0.020 x 9 = 0.378

    Assumed 9 of 2.1V LEDs running at 20mils which says it's not saving energy but is a very efficient boost circuit. JTs run cool meaning very little loss to heat.

  • @TheAlabamaCajun Thanks for your comment and the time to calculate the power consumption. If i remember correct those white LED work at around 3~3.5 volts. But in any way this was only fun to build.

  • the schematic diagram of this joule thief with 9 leds with capacitor

    thanks and more power

  • @jayson01982 Check the last line of my previous reply the link is there between the " ". Have a nice day!

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  • @TheAlabamaCajun leds run at 30ma at 3.5 volts. or so. and i think the joule theif pumps about 4-5V

  • @jayson01982 Unfortunately the schematic is not my doing so i cannot post it i can simply redirect you to his website and for the way it work it's basically 9 LED in parallel with capacitor this was one of the first "high power" one that I've made so the new model have some improvement. I found out the LED work better if they are mount in series since they draw less amp but require higher voltage. "webpages.charter.net/dawill/t­moranwms/index.html#Proj"

  • @jayson01982 There's no magic in there its a basic joule thief circuit with a little more power. Its not my design so ill simply direct you to the web site!

  • @bakupcpu

    can you send me the schematic diagram plssss..

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