{"id":4102,"date":"2012-09-09T07:29:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T14:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=4102"},"modified":"2013-06-29T18:59:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T01:59:49","slug":"2012-09-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=4102","title":{"rendered":"2012-09-09 Joule Thief It&#8217;s Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received a Google alert for <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.hackmanhattan.com\/Joule_thief\">this website<\/a>, which is clearly labeled as Joule Thief.\u00a0 As can be seen, the circuit shows two transistors. a single winding coil and a few other parts, which are indicative of a voltage boost circuit but definitely <strong>not<\/strong> a conventional Joule Thief.<\/p>\n<p>Some people accuse us of being pedants.\u00a0 Look, all horses are four-legged animals.\u00a0 What would you say if I called that four-legged animal laying on the couch and purring, a horse?\u00a0 What you say if I called that small four-legged animal wagging its tail a horse?\u00a0 Not all voltage boost circuits are joule Thiefs, and unless someone challenges those who make this mistake, those mistakes will continue to happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received a Google alert for this website, which is clearly labeled as Joule Thief.\u00a0 As can be seen, the circuit shows two transistors. a single winding coil and a few other parts, which are indicative of a voltage boost circuit but definitely not a conventional Joule Thief. Some people accuse us of being pedants.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=4102\"> <\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joule-thief-smps-dc-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102","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=4102"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7840,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions\/7840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}