I was surfing Lidmotors channel looking for simple circuits and spotted that he used a coil taken from the AC motor that powers the cooling fan in a microwave oven. I recognised it straight away as I have one in my bits box that I took out of a microwave oven I disassembled last year. Obviously I thought that would make a good subject for an evening project. I havent followed through with the whole project as I dont have a suitable neodymium magnet for the next stage but it was fun just getting to this stage and I have my LED lighting from the 1.5v AA battery in typical joule thief style.\r
You also get to see me disassemble the AC motor to extr the coil. If you want a circuit diagram you will have to watch Lidmotors video.\r
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Here is a Wikipedia link for details of this type of AC shaded pole motor \r
Lidmotors Light Multiplier \r
Johnydavros replication \r
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For those of you who want to light LEDs from a single AA battery but dont want or have a scrap microwave here is a simple project using small axial inductors and here is one that uses garden twist ties \r
BOTH are based on Lidmotors videos and have links in their video descriptions to his videos.\r
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Several people watching my video want to talk about Joule Thief circuits so here are a couple of excellent videos on the subject by RimstarOrg\r
How a Joule Thief Works \r
Make a Joule Thief for Zombie Batteries \r
Here is BigCliveDotCom on the same subject\r
How to make an authentic Joule Thief \r
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Here is a handy article on LEDs \r
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Things you can make from an old DVD drive \r
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Lets disassemble a Microwave Oven \r
I made this crawlerbot tortoise and used the turntable motor from this microwave to power it \r
Bargain Store Project #45 Washing Up Brushes Tortoise Crawlerbot \r
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