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Lighting solutions for camper equipment
ChadTower:
Have any spare pinball coils around?
SirPeale:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 02, 2008, 10:57:37 am ---
Have any spare pinball coils around?
--- End quote ---
I wouldn't sacrifice a working one, and I don't have any anyway.
SirPeale:
I can't believe I can't find a broken motor in my house anywhere. I've got to be able to find a coil on some broken piece of equipment around here or something.
A new joule thief was posted on Make earlier.
This one uses two transistors instead of the one in other diagrams I've seen, as well as a couple caps.
SirPeale:
I got my joule thief working. I found a small transformer on a TV chassis and unwound the magnet wire from that. Wrapped it around a toroid from a scrapped motherboard. Then proceeded to assemble the circuit.
Total cost: .79 for the SN4401 from Radio Shack. I might get that to zero if I could scavenge a compatible part from something. I'll have to start looking in power supplies, I think that's the best place to find them.
I'm going to put this one in my computer case. Always wanted a blue HD LED indicator in this case.
I'm wondering if I can use this circuit, and instead of a battery lighting an LED if you could put a solar cell in place of the battery, and a rechargeable battery in place of the LED (with a blocking diode, of course).
patrickl:
That's going to take a lot of work if you want to light a camper with that :P
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