A Thief with a super cap

This shows the JT running on one 5 Farad super capacitor. I also show a solar cell phone charger used to energize the capacitor. The second half of the video shows a Peltier Module being used with induction to porvide charging to a capacitor.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Joule Thief
• Solar energy
• Peltier Module
• Energy
• Electronics

[fdoca]

Lidmotor , Great vid, where i can get a voltage regulator to connect to a solar charger?

Thank you

[Lidmotor]

fdoca----Just go online and google it. They are everywhere.

[BodkinsEnergy]

My god Rusty ,you have hit the jackpot.

Brilliant just Brilliant

I bet you cant sleep now.

[Lidmotor]

Yeah sleep? What sleep? This reminds me of those early days on the Imhotep project. This Joule Thief circuit really has me busy.

[Drevtoobe]

Lid, get some of those glass-alcohol ducks that dip their beaks into the water. Foul Power man! lol

Peace out.

[Lidmotor]

I figured out a way to make the ducks produce electricity. Wrap their butts with wire and wave em by a magnet. LOL. Instead of "flower power"-- would that be "Fouler Power"???

[fuzzynostic]

peltiers are very ineficient, great for small scale though, nice vid

[gordslater]

I have no ducking idea what half these comments are about :)

[calinux26]

yeah man this is called bio energy ... and all the living bodies emit that ;)

[definitionofis]

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[Objectivityiskey]

I tried this with two of the Maxwell super caps that are the size of coke cans. I used USB hardware to transfer power, and turned a desk lamp into a super cap powered joule thief LED light. The super caps are suspended in a pelican case. I use a radio shack 5V regulator to regulate the voltage coming from one of my large solar panels. It takes a long time to charge these things up. I am not getting 9 hours out of mine. I'm using a replacement LED for the large three D cell mag lights though

[Drevtoobe]

...ahem.... I/we had a "Dan Quayle" moment....

Back to the sketch:

And if the ducks were NOT HAPPY with this abuse?

Would that be "Foul Fowler Power" or "Fowl Foul Power" or "Foul Fowl Power" or "Fouler Fowl Power"?