This 'super' Joule Thief has for a core 1/16" laminations of alloy steel. It came out of an army transformer as big as a suitcase. There are four hand wound coils of around 4,000 turns each, took a week of solid winding.
This one has two oppositely placed coils fired independently of each other, the two coils between them are 'pickup induction' coils, and run to the bridge.
Toroid shape is to capture 'all' the magnets that are perpetually going around the toroid once started. Also completely covered with wire. I'm a private experimenter for over 20 yrs, and haven't shared any of my projects till now. Thanks for watching.
@anisuthideyakoindu well, actually that's not that hard to explain - background cosmic radiation... Even though our atmosphere blocks out a lot of harmful radiation some radio waves (among others) still come through. You can see/hear the evidence of it if you de-tune a tv/radio. To harness useful energy from that you'd need an extremely efficient device, definitely not a joule thief. And preferably to have it in outer space so energy doesn't get absorbed by our atmosphere...
SirPlankton 2 weeks ago
@SirPlankton come on! shut off all radio stations on the planet and you will still have plenty of electricity from ... radio waves how come?
anisuthideyakoindu 2 weeks ago
..So what's the Deal with the 'Power Pack' the 2 coils are running off of..?
dougspair 3 weeks ago
@SirPlankton ..Oh, I forgot...when I was a kid in the 1950's...we just called them 'crystal radios'...
dougspair 3 weeks ago
@SirPlankton ..I, like yourself...realize the truth to the 'free' power...
dougspair 3 weeks ago
The thing that you are describing is different to the one I had in mind. Another guy had a video about a "joule thief" built in a similar way to the flash charger (from a camera). I had experimented a few years ago with the principle of operation that you describe (found it on the web). It worked but still it's not a reliable power source, to get it to power something you would need GIGANTIC lenght of wire acting as a antena. And BTW I know how radio works :P
akkudakkupl 1 year ago
@akkudakkupl as long as radio stations transmit their waves, you can induce a very tiny current in a wire. this is how an antenna works in a radio circuit. its not using the 'same' energy infinitely as such but its taking it from the radiowaves. waves transmit energy. do you even know what thermodynamics is? what you're thinking of is the law of conservation of energy. I'm not the person to bitch on youtube normally but you sir are just trying to catch attention in any way possible.
SirPlankton 1 year ago
@LoneOarman Add energy from where? Thin air? The only use I for this "joule thief" is depleting almost empty sources of electric current and loading capacitors with it. The power in this doesn't seem to be high, so thats the only way to use the limited power this thing pumps out.
akkudakkupl 1 year ago
@raunakmantri there is no free energy. Have you hear about something that is called physics? More precisely thermodynamics? The second law of thermodynamics says there is no energy from nothing and that you cant use the same energy infinitely.
akkudakkupl 1 year ago
@raunakmantri Okay..... I understand what you are saying. But dont be like one of those nitwits from greenpeace actually going onto oil rigs and protesting with the attention span of a mayfly...
nikulp68 1 year ago