This circuit use a capacitive “charge pump” style DC-DC boost converter to drive LEDs with forward voltages (Vf) of above 3 volts with input power voltages as low as about 60% of the LEDs Vf. The gif above shows the circuit powered by a 1.5 volt AA pulsing a white LED with forward voltage of nearly 3 volts. The circuit runs for several days on a single 3.3 F super cap charged to 2.7 volts!
This circuit use a capacitive “charge pump” style DC-DC boost converter to drive LEDs with forward voltages (Vf) of above 3 volts with input power voltages as low as about 60% of the LEDs Vf. The gif above shows the circuit powered by a 1.5 volt AA pulsing a white LED with forward voltage of nearly 3 volts. The circuit runs for several days on a single 3.3 F super cap charged to 2.7 volts!
Hi, what is the name of that app/software in the right?
What’s the numbers on Transistor T1 and T2(to the right) ?
Thanks for providing a schematic, I’d like to build it, but we need to know the trannies.
This is intriguing! How does the efficiency compare to similar circuits using an inductor?
I wish I had any idea at all how this works, super interesting.
Looks like an action potential
Poor unijunction transistor is turning over in its grave right now
*”i could be doing that with just one”*