Hi I'm new here. I"m a hobbyist, I don't own a business, but I do make joule thief flashlights and sell them on Ebay. Am I considered a commercial seller? Do I post my link in the Commercial Seller forum or in the Want To Sell forum?
This gray area was not covered in the sticky post.
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Hi there, and welcome!
You’re right that it’s kind of a gray area. If you have some product that you made or bought with the intention of selling, go ahead and add it to the Commercial Sellers category. That rule is mainly to prevent high-pressure sellers and spammers from plastering advertisements and links in all sorts of irrelevant places, which I’m sure you won’t do, so no worries in your case.
And of course for all your hobbyist topics, feel free to participate as a normal user in all the other categories.
Best regards.
Welcome to BLF, I’m curious about your joulethief flashlights 
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Commercial seller or contributing member kinda depends on the content of your post. Several members also have their own sites and sales but their posts in other threads are kept on topic(at least to the extent that any of us do that). It’s a pretty laid back mostly self regulated community.
You might want to look up some of the other joule thief threads already here and see what you have to add to the subject.
Basically I looked for boards that would convert 0.9vdc to 5vdc, then reduce that 5vdc to run a 5mm LED package. So I have a 3AA case with switch, which uses 2AA batteries. Thus, if each battery has 0.5vdc each, it should still light the LED to some extent. The point is, you will get much more use out of batteries than a typical energy hog 5w LED.
I’m working on a 2 mode LED uses a 1w LED, with high, and Starlight mode, which is dim enough but you can still find the thing in the dark. It’s the thing in the blue box here.