When driven by a 1.

5 single cell battery, this circuit produces about 50 volts with no load and
can supply 9.3 milliamps of current when the output is short-circuited. This means that you
could charge a 6-volt battery using a 1.5 volt battery.

He added an additional winding to his one-inch (25 mm) diameter ferrite toroid, and he uses
that to power a 1 watt LED.
He runs the circuit driven by a small rechargeable battery, which feeds 13 milliamps into the
circuit, for a period of fourteen hours. At the end of that time, the batt-cap has gathered
enough energy to fully recharge the driving battery in a minute or two, and then power a
heater winding of nichrome wire (as used in mains-powered radiant heaters) for four and a
half minutes. Alternatively, that amount of extra power could boil a kettle of water.
The really interesting thing about this is that the driving battery gets recharged every time and
so the circuit is selfsustaining although it is not a powerful circuit.
The main point is that using the collector of the transistor as the power take-off point of the
circuit, is inefficient as that draws a lot of input current without a corresponding increase in
output current. Jeanna adds a 74-turn secondary winding on top of her two 11-turn Joule
Thief bi-filar windings, and that appears to give a far better power output. She uses the very
small AAA size 1.2V battery and further drops the output (because “the light is too blinding”)
by putting a resistor (10 to 33 ohms) in series with the battery and using many LEDs in series.
I have used this circuit, driven by a 1.5 volt battery, to charge 12-volt batteries, but the best
results are in the five to six volt range.
The toroid was an 8-inch (20.32 cm) diameter, 10 mm by 12 mm offcut from a plastic pipe
which happened to be to hand and the wire used was plastic covered 6-amp equipment wire,
again, because it was to hand at the time.
Overall, this is a very simple, cheap and easily constructed COP>10 device which has the
potential of providing large amounts of free, useable, electrical power.
The 2SD1960 transistor is rated at 30-volts, 5-amps, 170 MHz and 0.75 watts, so we might
consider swapping it for, say, a BD245C transistor rated at 100-volts, 10-amps, 3 MHz and
80 watts as our circuit runs at under 0.1 MHz and the BD245C transistor can be mounted on
a heat sink, although with it’s much greater handling capacity, it should stay cool at these tiny
powers. We can boost the gain of the BD245C by a factor of 200 or so, by using a BC109C or
a 2N2222 transistor to form a Darlington pair.

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