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Update on Homemade Zinc Copper Battery Experiment
Here is an update on the Joule Thief Kit experiment, where I was trying to charge a NiMh battery using a homemade single cell Copper Zinc battery. See this post from October...
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Joule Thief Energy Harvesting Experiment w/Low Voltage Solar Cell
Solar Cell SetupI put a 0.5v 1A monolithic silicon solar cell on the front end of the Joule Thief circuit. Added a schottky and 2000uf cap on the output. I wanted to see how long it would take the...
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Using the Joule Thief with Stepper Motors at Low RPM to Generate Useful Power
When ever I took apart old equipment like dot matrix printers that were heading for the trash heap I saved the stepper motors, slide rails, etc… I have tried using the stepper motors in projects like...
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A little info on the Joule Thief for those of you that have not heard about it. In the article “One Volt LED – A Bright Light” written by Z. Kaparnik from Swindon, Wilts, UK published in the November...
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Joule Thief Kits are Availible Now
Our Joule Thief Kits are available now. They are on sale for $4.99 each. If you are student and you plan on using any of the Joule Thief products for a school project please contact us at...
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Using a Joule Thief to Harvest Energy from a Candle
Today I made a compact thermal electric generator ( TEG ) using a thermal electric cooler ( TEC a.k.a Peltier device ) and a Joule Thief. This TEC produces about 1.8VDC when heated on one side and...
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Make a Joule Thief Battery Charger
Recover the last bit of energy from a “dead” alkaline battery. When your modern electronics gadget turns off because the alkaline batteries are “dead” it just means the voltage in the batteries has...
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Introducing the Cree 1 Watt LED High Power Joule Thief Kit
We are very excited to introduce our newest Joule Thief kit. This kit is a higher power Joule Thief kit that includes a Cree 50 Lumen XLamp 1 Watt white LED. See our energy harvesting product section...
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One Winding Joule Thief
We had some high permeability toroid cores shipped in. The permeability is so high that it can achieve somewhere between 3-5uH per each winding. This allows for us to make a High Power Joule Thief with...
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A Very Nice Steam Engine Powered Carousel Project That Uses The Joule Thief
Jerry built this great little home made steam engine and the carousel that is powered from the steam engine. He posted a video of it in operation on you tube. He runs the Carousel and a little...
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