{"id":4218,"date":"2012-09-18T07:50:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T14:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=4218"},"modified":"2013-06-29T18:55:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T01:55:08","slug":"2012-09-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=4218","title":{"rendered":"2012-09-18 Joule Thief Won&#8217;t  Take Beauty Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=4742\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4742\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4742\" title=\"5887865162_UglyJouleThief\" src=\"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/5887865162_UglyJouleThief-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/5887865162_UglyJouleThief-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/5887865162_UglyJouleThief.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I found this picture of a Joule Thief on <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.allaboutcircuits.com\/showthread.php?t=75925\"><strong>this forum<\/strong><\/a>, but it requires login, so I&#8217;m going to post it here.\u00a0 This sure won&#8217;t take a prize for beauty, to put it mildly, but if it works, that&#8217;s what counts.\u00a0 I&#8217;m wondering how that coil can work with all those weird wires around it.\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s a mystery coil.\u00a0 Also, it&#8217;s odd that none of the parts seem to go through the holes where parts normally go.\u00a0 Another oddity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this picture of a Joule Thief on this forum, but it requires login, so I&#8217;m going to post it here.\u00a0 This sure won&#8217;t take a prize for beauty, to put it mildly, but if it works, that&#8217;s what counts.\u00a0 I&#8217;m wondering how that coil can work with all those weird wires around it.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=4218\"> <\/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-4218","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\/4218","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=4218"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7837,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218\/revisions\/7837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}