Joule thief
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joule-thief-231-3747262
title:
Joule thief
text:
A joule thief is a minimalist self-oscillating voltage booster that is small, low-cost, and easy to build, typically used for driving small loads, such as driving an LED using a 1.5 volt battery. It can use nearly all of the energy in a single-cell electric battery, even far below the voltage where other circuits consider the battery fully discharged; hence the name, which suggests the notion that the circuit is "stealing" energy or "joules" from the source – the term is a pun on "jewel thief".
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Voltage booster electronic circuit
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule_thief
date created:
2009-07-22T14:54:38Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T20:48:04Z
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