an intresting question 'do they drain batteries faster than usual'
theres quite a few 'traps' with things like this, like making parallel battery packs of 3's and 4's..you get less of the capacity for the third cell and even less out of the 4'th cell than you do on paper, even working it out in watts is ermmm..misleading greatly.(conclusions on this were a definite make two packs of 2 in parallel and use them individually for a much longer run time).
e.g. you use the joule theif to get say 30 minutes more out of the battery, but it takes 50 minutes off the original run time adding up to you abused a cell at the risk of the bang to a much much lower voltage but allas..it ran for much less time over all.
so, does a joulle theif take more than it would to run than to not use it? to broaden, booste power supplies take more current in amps to 'step up', the higher the booste the higher amp draw at the imput..any one?
an intresting question 'do they drain batteries faster than usual'
theres quite a few 'traps' with things like this, like making parallel battery packs of 3's and 4's..you get less of the capacity for the third cell and even less out of the 4'th cell than you do on paper, even working it out in watts is ermmm..misleading greatly.(conclusions on this were a definite make two packs of 2 in parallel and use them individually for a much longer run time).
e.g. you use the joule theif to get say 30 minutes more out of the battery, but it takes 50 minutes off the original run time adding up to you abused a cell at the risk of the bang to a much much lower voltage but allas..it ran for much less time over all.
so, does a joulle theif take more than it would to run than to not use it? to broaden, booste power supplies take more current in amps to 'step up', the higher the booste the higher amp draw at the imput..any one?
