{"id":7905,"date":"2013-07-03T10:56:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T17:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=7905"},"modified":"2013-07-04T16:32:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T23:32:38","slug":"2013-07-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=7905","title":{"rendered":"2013-07-03 EuroConn Joule Thief &#8220;SIM&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DSC_0404S3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7918\" alt=\"DSC_0404S3\" src=\"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DSC_0404S3-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DSC_0404S3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DSC_0404S3.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This, I believe, is the first Joule Thief I&#8217;ve built using a European style connector, I call them EuroConns, but Paul calls them chocolate blocks (I&#8217;ve never seen one chocolate color, though).\u00a0 I&#8217;ve built other things with them.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve ever watched the Youtube videos of Xee2 AKA Xee2vids, you&#8217;ll know how handy these can be for quickly putting together circuits.\u00a0 These are available in 8 and 12 position versions from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioshack.com\/product\/index.jsp?productId=2103986\">Radio Scrap<\/a>. I call it a &#8220;SIM&#8221; because it&#8217;s a Single Inline Module.<\/p>\n<p>It was a bit of a stretch to get the leads of the PN2222A transistor to fit into the three holes, but I finally got it.\u00a0 It should have a socket or extension wires, but soldering extension wires onto the leads kind of defeats the purpose of the strip, which is to get away from soldering.<\/p>\n<p>The JT uses a PN2222A, a 1k resistor, a high Mu toroid core with two separate windings, look like 9 turns each, and a Seoul Semi\u00a01 watt warm white &#8216;star&#8217; LED.\u00a0 The connections are pretty much self-explanatory.\u00a0 The white wire from the black lead of the LED to the black negative lead (far left) can be replaced with a 1 ohm resistor to monitor the LED current.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t made any measurements, probably because I plan in disassembling it after I&#8217;ve blogged it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s JAAJT (just another average Joule Thief).<\/p>\n<p>Back to experimenting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This, I believe, is the first Joule Thief I&#8217;ve built using a European style connector, I call them EuroConns, but Paul calls them chocolate blocks (I&#8217;ve never seen one chocolate color, though).\u00a0 I&#8217;ve built other things with them.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve ever watched the Youtube videos of Xee2 AKA Xee2vids, you&#8217;ll know how handy these can<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=7905\"> <\/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":[74,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronic-components","category-joule-thief-smps-dc-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905","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=7905"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7912,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905\/revisions\/7912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}