{"id":2993,"date":"2012-06-01T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2012-07-09T12:57:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T19:57:03","slug":"2012-06-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=2993","title":{"rendered":"2012-06-01 Joule Thief Light from the mid 2000s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=3238\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3238\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3238\" title=\"DSC_0074S4\" src=\"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DSC_0074S4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DSC_0074S4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DSC_0074S4.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I built this light back in the early to mid 2000s when the LED flashlights were very expensive and generally not available.\u00a0 As can be seen, it runs off a single AAA cell, and lights a single LED.\u00a0 I used point to point wiring, then I put clear silicone seal over the circuit to hold it in place.\u00a0 The white LEDs were expensoive back then; $4.00 at Radio Shack or $2.00 if bought online.\u00a0 But the most expensive\u00a0 part of the light was probably the box, which cost about $4.00.\u00a0 The switch cost a few dollars, too.\u00a0 Nowadays I have several Fenix LD01 single AAA cell keychain lights, and they perform so much better than this light that I can only say that it served its purpose back then, but has now become a relic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I built this light back in the early to mid 2000s when the LED flashlights were very expensive and generally not available.\u00a0 As can be seen, it runs off a single AAA cell, and lights a single LED.\u00a0 I used point to point wiring, then I put clear silicone seal over the circuit to hold<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=2993\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashlight","category-joule-thief-smps-dc-dc","category-led"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3262,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions\/3262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}