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Joule Thief - operation and the 'supercharged' version

I've made a joule thief, and it works fairly well, but not as well as I would like. It's powering a 3.2v LED from a 1.2v battery, but it's very dim. I'm hoping increasing the voltage from the JT ...
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what is the magnitude of total voltage in the below circuit?

I was working on some RLC circuits and I found a question something like this. In series RL circuit, \$V_R\$ = 4V and \$V_L\$ = 3V. what is the magnitude of total voltage ? I just thought \$V_T\$ = ...
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Inductance and “kick back” voltages

I'm trying really hard to understand inductors and their related kick back voltage when the current is suddenly interrupted. Example ascii art: 1 2 | | + ----- ~~~ --_-- - ...