The Secret of Joule Thief and FLEET Circuits
I have been working on the Joule Thief and FLEET Circuits for over two years now. It was always a mystery to me why such simple circuits could light up hundreds and even thousands of LEDs; recharge batteries of higher voltage than the 1.5 V AA battery; prolong battery life for days or even weeks and perform the many wonders described in the long Joule Thief Threads in the Overunity.com forum.
Is the Joule Thief or FLEET circuit overunity? I know that I can tune many Joule Thief circuits with the secondary coils until the Output Power Curve is greater than the Input Power Curve as seen on my two oscilloscopes. However, the success rate is NOT 100%.
After so many experiments and studies, I believe the following is the secret of the Joule Thief and FLEET circuits.
1. There is no violation of the Law of Conservation of Energy as Energy is Led-out or Brought-in from the surrounding. 2. Such Led-out or Brought-in Energy is from the energy of the Orbiting Electrons. Any Orbiting electron can act as a tiny magnet (dipole). 3. Chemical Energy is a result of the re-arrangement of the electron cloud around compounds. 4. Electric or magnetic fields can affect the motion and/or orientation of the electrons. Such fields can lead-out or bring-in the Energy of the orbiting electrons into the system. 5. There are trillions of orbiting electrons. They can affect their neighbors. Thus Energy can be “sucked in” with a possible result of cooler temperature. 6. In a normal AC transformer, the voltage or emf is related to the rate of change of magnetic flux per turn of wire. Thus a 1:1 transformer cannot increase the secondary voltage but a 1:N ratio can. 7. If there is a rapid change of magnetic flux, the normal transformer relationship in point 6 no longer holds. The sudden cut off of electric current can produce a high magnetic flux change resulting in a higher emf or back emf as compared with results in point 6. This is the secret why the Joule Thief or FLEET circuits can produce a very high Output Voltage with the same number of turns of wire. 8. In a normal AC transformer, if the secondary voltage goes up, the secondary current must go down because of the Law of Conservation of Energy. 9. In the case of the Joule Thief or FLEET circuits (if tuned to some type of resonance), Electron Motion Energy can be led-out or brought-in. This results in a higher current than predicted by point 6. 10. The best way to observe, measure or tune for overunity is to use two oscilloscopes. One to display the Input Waveforms (Voltage, Current and Power). The other to display the Output Waveforms. In particular, the comparison of the Output and the Input Power Waveforms will give hints of overunity. 11. The more scientific way is to analyze the oscilloscope data captured as CSV (EXCEL compatible format) files. I usually set Channel 1 to measure the Voltage; Channel 2 to measure the Current (voltage across a 1 ohm resistor). The CSV file will provide many thousand sample points and the corresponding time values. We can then use EXCEL to get the Instantaneous Power (CH1*CH2) and plot the many different graphs for display. 12. The COP (Coefficient of Performance) should be equal to the Average Power Output over the Average Power Input. Such average Power values can be obtained easily with EXCEL. 13. To be more exact, we need to analyze not just the average power value. We must examine the positive and the negative only area of the Power Curves. 14. Positive Power implies energy supplied to the Circuit. Negative Power implies energy flowing back to the source. In the case of Joule Thief or FLEET, the source is the battery. 15. Actual experiments showed that both the Average Input Power and the Average Output Power can be positive or negative. If the Average of the Input Power is negative, it implies that the Input Circuit is a recharging circuit. More energy flows back to the battery than supplied! This explains the very long battery life. 16. If both the positive area and the negative area of the Output Power Curve are greater than those of Input, it implies a very large output activity. The Output Power Standing wave contains much more energy than Input. Thus many thousand LEDs can be lighted. 17. The theoretical basis of the oscilloscope measurement is from the well accepted Physics principle – the Instantaneous Power is equal to the product of the Instantaneous Voltage and the Instantaneous Current. This principle holds no matter whether the system is DC, AC or Pulsed. 18. Many configurations can produce a Joule Thief lighting a LED. This led many to believe that all Joule Thief Circuits are equally capable. This assumption is false. A FLEET (Forever Lead-Out Electromagnetic Energy Transformer) has secondary coils on top of the Joule Thief tuned to some resonance condition so that COP >1. Not all Joule Thief Circuits can be tuned to achieve COP > 1. 19. Experimental observation showed that small changes in the FLEET circuit can have a large effect on the final waveform comparisons. These small changes include different positions of the electronics on the breadboard, different length of wires, different value of resistors, capacitors, diodes, etc. The biggest change usually comes from the toroid – different diameter, core material, number of windings, tightness of the winding, the pitch etc. 20. So far, I found that the COP performance to be empirical. Once a good COP performer is obtained, one should work on it with the aim of turning it into a commercial product. One of the Taiwan LED Manufacturers is improving their LED hat with such FLEET technology. 21. Attached is a sample analysis with the Output Power and Input Power Waveform comparison. With Two separate Atten Oscilloscopes, I can see the comparison directly. Such an arrangement is ideal for tuning purposes. But I strongly recommend the more scientific way – analyze the CSV files with EXCEL. 22. I treat my work as Divine Revelations. I did not perform the miracles. I just help to serve the Divine Wine. The Wine will benefit the entire Human Race.
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