Joule Thief – From 5 Volts to 100 Volts

I finally got around to the joule theif circuit and I’m glad I did! This will be fun. I really want to make an earth battery now as well but the ground is frozen soild here now. The circuit was lighting the neon before I made the vid…there was more juice coming out before but I was in a hurry as the batteries were running low. It was very satisfying to charge the camera (alkalyne) batteries with the circuit in order to make the vid 🙂 This would explain the difference in voltage produced after the charge because it was quite a drain on the “run” battery. It would sustain a faint light in the neon prior to that. Merry Christmas (Saturnalia)

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