Tag Archive: Driving

Jul 20

Nissan LEAF – Driving Impressions

Forbes Reporters Discuss the Nissan LEAF Electric Vehicle

Jun 30

Honda Insight LX 2010, driving at night

In the early hours of July 17, 2011 just after midnight, I decided to take a video of driving my Honda Insight LX 2010 model here in greater Buffalo, NY. I’ve had the car barely more than a year since May of 2010, and I’ve already put 27000 miles on it. I wanted to get …

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Jun 10

Energy Costs of Driving Electric Cars  

by NNECAPA Energy Costs of Driving Electric Cars   Article by Klaus H Hemsath The media are full of news about electric cars. The 0,000 Tesla electric sports car is going to …

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Feb 26

Rosemary Ainslie circuit driving fluorescent light tube 1 wire

Taking spikes from inductive resistor at high frequency and putting them to a compact fluorescent light (CFL). It will partially light a 42 watt tube light with one wire. This is just to show it can be done but more work needs to be done to optimize it and to see if there is any …

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Jan 30

Joule Thief – Driving a Flyback with a 1.5V

This is a follow up on my last video about what else can we do with a Joule Thief. Video Rating: 4 / 5

Nov 03

Joule Thief Circuit – Driving CFLs with 1.5v

In the “Big Joule Theif” thread of the Energetic Forum some wizards are producing light from CFLs using only 1.5 volts. There are hand-wound coils, and clever circuits being experimented with. This is all great fun and may lead to a very inexpensive, low power lighting system. Here is my attempt, which utilized many ideas …

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