 Hey there YouTube, I've been building this little circuit and it's one that I found on talking electronics, it's this one here, okay, that's what it sort of looks like, even though I've got a different type of bulb I'm using this for ammo. Now the strange thing about this is if looking at the circuit look, you can see that the capacitor down the bottom left and that 47R resistor is gonna be connected to the emitter of this 3055, but whenever I connect it, what happens is after a few seconds I start burning up resistors, these 47Rs which is the one bridging the capacitor then, but funnily enough if I take that off the emitter, because one side is going to be the feedback which it is, yeah and that's this wire here, I have the camera points on the right place, that's this wire here and it comes down and it comes onto the base here which is what's supposed to happen, but then this side is supposed to be connected to the emitter, but like I said even that one's burnt out because I started doing it, sorry if you can't see that well with this camera, you can see it's burnt out there a bit, but I've just noticed that if I take that off and just connect this connection, it lights up my tube but I don't have any smoke, I'm not burning anything up, but it's not actually connected, so what's going on there, I don't understand that at all, it's nice to see there's no smoke, so I've got a funny feeling there's a simpler way of building this circuit, I'm not exactly sure because I, well the looks here, I think I can just get rid of that capacitor and the resistor, maybe I don't know, I honestly don't know because I'm not quite sure how this is working, I think there's a little bit of magic going on here, but that is definitely working, like you can see the wires here and they're going to the output of this little transformer, now this is 500 turns and then the primary is here, this chunky wire going to the positive and the primary comes to the collector on the thing there, the negative side of the power supply which is just coming off that connection there which is just there and we're pulling 1.2 amps, nothing else is on this and I suppose if I turn, if I add less of a voltage, anyway just don't want to think about that for a minute, I'm just trying to work out then if this isn't connected which is supposed to be as you can see look to the emitter and it's just hanging off, but we've still got our negative connection on the emitter and the positive connection is connected basically here, that's where the positive connection is connected and then just the negative is going on to the emitter, but this is hanging off, this isn't connected now, it's just not doing anything, but it still works, I don't know, I don't know what's going on, so I just thought I'd show that, it's supposed to use when driving a 5 watt CFL, about 250 milliamps, so you know that's it, it's not, it is actually using it more than that, I think it's quite bright, I mean it's not terribly bright as you can see but it is lighting up, so bright lights and they can turn the light back on, so I'm not quite sure what's going on, I don't think anything will happen if I touch that but I'm not going to see it and I'm certainly not going to put my things on the end of here because this thing's probably, well with the 12 watts going in, there's sort of 10 to 1 transformer, is that right? I've got 10 turns then I've got 500 turns, oh sorry 50, yeah 10 to 1, so it's a 50 primary and 500 secondary, so 12 watts going in like 120 volts, but I had this working before, I had it before connected up correctly and it worked, but now whenever I'm doing it I seem to just be burning these and although it's not actually breaking, it's the smell, I suppose you're supposed to be breathing it in or that so, but that's quite strange isn't it, so I'm wondering now if I actually just took these off, off this all together and so you've just got the chip, the resistor and the transformer, whether it's still working, let's give it a go, okay so it does, literally just unconnected this and it still works, slightly warm, so that's just the transformer, the 1k resistor between the feedback and the primary and then the other side of the primary onto the clator and the other side of the feedback onto the base and the negative to the the emitter of the transistor, it's a Ganon magic, I've got no idea what's going on, but anyway I'll just share that with you and if anyone's got any ideas, leave them in the comments below, that'd be great if you can, I think I've simplified that circuit, maybe I'm going to get the old, I'm going to get the bigger tube on there and see if it works as well, still pulling the same rampage but it would do, I couldn't see why it would change, just because I've taken that out, because really it's just sat on the end, it's not actually doing anything, it's just sat there, I thought maybe there'd be some magic going between it, you know, but it's so reduced in a sense, so that's, what the hell's going on? Anyway, like I said, any comments in the comments section, it's interesting to say at least, so there we go, oh I don't know if I mentioned that's just wrapped on some ferrite core, with some tape in between the actual ferrite rod itself and the wire and the magnet wire, just to insulate it, strange but true, thanks for watching, bye!