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Author Topic: Interesting Higher Powered Joule Thief I just made.  (Read 12533 times)

Legalizeshemp420

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Interesting Higher Powered Joule Thief I just made.
« on: October 24, 2013, 12:30:31 PM »
I took a ferrite out of a CFL and rewound it.  I put 30 or 40 turns around it (same wire it had just less turns) and on top of that I put 4 or 5 turns.  I have a S8050 and a BC337-25 in parallel and this is what happened with a 1.30V battery.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B34lh8MAhzM
« Last Edit: October 24, 2013, 10:04:00 PM by Legalizeshemp420 »

FatBird

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Re: Interesting Higher Powered Joule Thief I just made.
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2013, 09:48:44 PM »
Can you please post a Circuit Diagram, because it's
real hard to tell what's connected to what.


Thank you.

Legalizeshemp420

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Re: Interesting Higher Powered Joule Thief I just made.
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2013, 10:34:14 PM »
Yeah, this camera takes blurry videos which blows but I do not have the cash to get a better one.

FatBird

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Re: Interesting Higher Powered Joule Thief I just made.
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2013, 12:05:17 AM »
Thank you for posting that clear diagram.


Can you also post a new diagram showing where you insert that
bigger resistor in the YouTube video that makes the LED BRIGHTER.


Thank you.

TinselKoala

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Re: Interesting Higher Powered Joule Thief I just made.
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2013, 12:35:48 AM »
S8050 data sheet:

Legalizeshemp420

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Re: Interesting Higher Powered Joule Thief I just made.
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2013, 03:04:27 AM »
Thank you for posting that clear diagram.


Can you also post a new diagram showing where you insert that
bigger resistor in the YouTube video that makes the LED BRIGHTER.


Thank you.
That should have been very obvious as I slapped it in parallel with the 1k and if you do the math the final resistance would have been .99 ohms.  The big blue resistor was 1 ohm 1%1/2watt where as the 1k was 5% 1/4 watt.

Legalizeshemp420

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Re: Interesting Higher Powered Joule Thief I just made.
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2013, 03:06:53 AM »
S8050 data sheet:
Perfect and it has it listed properly as NPN.  Why a lot of them show it as PNP I have no idea.

Legalizeshemp420

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Re: Interesting Higher Powered Joule Thief I just made.
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2013, 09:15:06 PM »
Part 2 has much better close ups (I used some reading glasses over my lens, lol) and I am really excited by what I achieved.