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Candle

The Joule thief candle

tauno-erikTauno Erik
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This project was created on 09/16/2020 and last updated 6 years ago.

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This is a basic Joule thief circuit. It uses one AA (1.5) battery. When batteries are almost empty. Then there is actually still lot of energy. And it squeezes all energy out of it.

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smartroad wrote 09/27/2020 at 09:26 • point

I'd so love a guide on how to build this. How you got the copper wire bent and measured. Love it!

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