LED flashlight from 1.5 V and below


Blocking – generator is a generator of short-term pulses repeated at fairly large intervals.
One of the advantages of blocking generators is their comparative simplicity, the ability to connect a load through a transformer, high efficiency, and connection of a sufficiently powerful load.


Blocking oscillators are very often used in amateur radio circuits. But we will run from this generator Light-emitting diode.

Very often when hiking, fishing or hunting you need a flashlight. But you don’t always have a battery or 3V batteries at hand. This scheme can start Light-emitting diode at full power from a nearly dead battery.


A little about the scheme. Details: any transistor (n-p-n or p-n-p) can be used in my KT315G circuit.
The resistor needs to be selected, but more on that later.
The ferrite ring is not very large.
And a high-frequency diode with a low voltage drop.

So, I was cleaning out a drawer in my desk and found an old flashlight with an incandescent bulb, burnt out, of course, and recently I saw a diagram of this generator.


And I decided to solder the circuit and put it in a flashlight.
Well, let's get started:


First, let's assemble according to this scheme.


We take a ferrite ring (I pulled it out from the ballast of a fluorescent lamp) and wind 10 turns of 0.5-0.3 mm wire (it could be thinner, but it won’t be convenient). We wound it, make a loop, or a branch, and wind it another 10 turns.

Now we take the KT315 transistor, Light-emitting diode and our transformer. We assemble according to the diagram (see above). I also placed a capacitor in parallel with the diode, so it glowed brighter.


So they collected it. If Light-emitting diode does not light up, change the polarity of the battery. Still not lit, check if the connection is correct LED and a transistor. If everything is correct and still does not light up, then the transformer is not wound correctly. To be honest, my circuit didn’t work the first time either.

Now we complement the diagram with the remaining details.


By installing diode VD1 and capacitor C1, the LED will glow brighter.


The last stage is the selection of the resistor. Instead of a constant resistor, we put a 1.5 kOhm variable one. And we start spinning. You need to find the place where the LED shines brighter, and you need to find the place where if you increase the resistance even a little, the LED goes out. In my case it is 471 Ohm.

Okay, now closer to the point))
We disassemble the flashlight


We cut a circle from one-sided thin fiberglass to the size of the flashlight tube.

Now we go and look for parts of the required denominations of several millimeters in size. Transistor KT315


Now we mark the board and cut the foil with a stationery knife.

We tinker the board

 

We fix bugs, if any.

Now to solder the board we need a special tip, if not, it doesn’t matter. We take wire 1-1.5 mm thick. We clean it thoroughly.

Now we wind it on the existing soldering iron. The end of the wire can be sharpened and tinned.


Well, let's start soldering the parts.


You can use a magnifying glass.

Well, everything seems to be soldered, except for the capacitor, LED and transformer.
Now test run. We attach all these parts (without soldering) to the “snot”


Hooray!! Happened. Now you can solder all the parts normally without fear

I suddenly became interested in what the output voltage was, so I measured

3.7V is normal for a high power LED.
The most important thing is to solder the LED))



We insert it into our flashlight; when I inserted it, I unsoldered the LED - it was in the way.


And so, we inserted it and made sure that everything would fit freely. Now we take out the board and cover the edges with varnish. So that there is no short circuit, because the body of the flashlight is a minus.

Now we solder the LED back and check again.


Checked, everything works!!!
Now we carefully insert all this into the flashlight and turn it on.


Such a flashlight can be started even from a dead battery, or if there are no batteries at all (for example, in the forest while hunting). There are many different ways to get a small voltage (insert 2 wires of different metals into a potato) and start an LED.


Good luck!!!

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Comments (45)
  1. Andrey
    #1 Andrey Guests 19 April 2011 18:58
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    But I did.It’s not necessary to have a ferrite ring, I wound about 100 turns onto a nail XD, for 51 positive taps, I didn’t have to select a transistor further, everything according to the diagram works perfectly fine flashlight 7 LEDs burns bright
  2. Andrey
    #2 Andrey Guests 18 April 2011 17:31
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    In the first diagram, a contact extends from the transistor to the right - on the KY 7B transistor is this contact in the middle?
  3. Hicks
    #3 Hicks Guests 10 April 2011 23:56
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    Great idea. How to properly wind a wire around a ferrite ring?
    I did it like in the topic “squeezing the last juice out of the battery”
    I connected everything, but the light only comes on with 2 batteries and is very dim
  4. [)eNiS
    #4 [)eNiS Guests 11 April 2011 15:51
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    You can simply wind it in one direction, for example 10 turns. You make a withdrawal. Motaesh in the SAME direction 10 turns. Ready. There is another way: Take a ~1.5m wire and bend it at random. And wind 10 turns with double wire. Then cut the beginning of the coil (the loop from which you started winding) and connect one cut wire to any other))
    If it’s not clear, write me an email and I’ll try to help))
  5. ULAD
    #5 ULAD Guests 16 April 2011 15:08
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    Is GT309A suitable?
  6. NOTFRONT
    #6 NOTFRONT Guests 16 April 2011 15:28
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    Will do
  7. ULAD
    #7 ULAD Guests 16 April 2011 16:24
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    Would a ring with an inner diameter of 6mm, an outer diameter of 12mm and a thickness of 4mm fit?
  8. [)eNiS
    #8 [)eNiS Guests 16 April 2011 18:08
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    Anything will do, the size doesn’t really matter here, the main thing is that it’s made of ferrite
  9. Andrey
    #9 Andrey Guests 17 April 2011 19:35
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    Is it possible to wind the transformer on a ferrite rod, and not on a ring?
  10. feelloff
    #10 feelloff Guests 17 April 2011 20:38
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    It's possible, but the efficiency will be lower...