I was surfing Lidmotors channel looking for simple circuits and spotted that he used a coil taken from the AC motor that powers the cooling fan in a microwave oven. I recognised it straight away as I have one in my bits box that I took out of a microwave oven I disassembled last year. Obviously I thought that would make a good subject for an evening project. I havent followed through with the whole project as I dont have a suitable neodymium magnet for the next stage but it was fun just getting to this stage and I have my LED lighting from the 1.5v AA battery in typical joule thief style.\r<br>You also get to see me disassemble the AC motor to extr the coil. If you want a circuit diagram you will have to watch Lidmotors video.\r<br>\r<br>Here is a Wikipedia link for details of this type of AC shaded pole motor \r<br>Lidmotors Light Multiplier \r<br>Johnydavros replication \r<br>\r<br>For those of you who want to light LEDs from a single AA battery but dont want or have a scrap microwave here is a simple project using small axial inductors and here is one that uses garden twist ties \r<br>BOTH are based on Lidmotors videos and have links in their video descriptions to his videos.\r<br>\r<br>Several people watching my video want to talk about Joule Thief circuits so here are a couple of excellent videos on the subject by RimstarOrg\r<br>How a Joule Thief Works \r<br>Make a Joule Thief for Zombie Batteries \r<br>Here is BigCliveDotCom on the same subject\r<br>How to make an authentic Joule Thief \r<br>\r<br>Here is a handy article on LEDs \r<br>\r<br>Here are some links to a few of my playlists\r<br>-\r<br>Microwave Oven projects \r<br>Things you can make from an old DVD drive \r<br>Disassembly \r<br>Lets disassemble a Microwave Oven \r<br>I made this crawlerbot tortoise and used the turntable motor from this microwave to power it \r<br>Bargain Store Project #45 Washing Up Brushes Tortoise Crawlerbot \r<br>\r<br>My Channel page \r<br>Oldest videos \r<br>Most Popular \r<br>Newest videos \r<br>Playlists \r<br>Facebook \r<br>Merchandise - Check both of these links if you are interested as the prices will vary and the shipping charges will be different.\r<br>\r<br>\r<br>I have thousands of videos on YouTube, to find one try my search guides or \r<br>My GrandadsOtherChannel channel is generally where I will host the videos that give extra detail or longer versions of the videos I post on my main channel
