gotcha so it didnt work um so use thicker wire? :) but hey you guys should do some simple circuit stuff like powering flybacks and things of that nature
Yeah, I have some simple stuff like flybacks on my website if you want; I used to build those back when I was 12 ;) There is no railgun on this video, smart guy ;) Guess you don't know what one looks like? As the description says, this video shows a wire exploding on the railgun PSU so we could calibrate the current shunt for the oscilloscope before we put the gun in and fired it. The gun worked GREAT btw, videos coming up soon ;)
You sounded confused when you said "so it didn't work". The objetive was to explode a wire. The video shows a wire exploding and blowing the top off the box that was housing it...
no i knew it wasnt a rail gun i thought you were testing a coil with your power supply before you put it to use in a gun i knew it was a test for wire just did not understand exactly what the test was
Oh. No, no coil there. The gun has very little inductance, so we expected to see a very short, high current pulse. But since the total power supply impedance was unknown, we could not predict the exact pulse characteristics. We did this test with the scope set to trigger so that we could get a ballpark number for the current before firing the gun. The reason not to fire the gun for calibration purposes is because we wanted all shots to produce data, since rail life is limited.
now i understand but i am no n00b at this ive built some before just never one of this power but great vid though i have since dismantled my rail/coil gun just so i could have fun with capacitors
Oh man, just wait till you see what those 2100LBS worth of pulse capacitors do when we turn the power up ;) We fired the last shot at 105,000Joules. Peak current hit 3.5MILLION amps. It sounded like an artillery gun, the ground shook, the cables ripped themselves off their lugs, and it put a piece of plastic through an inch of plywood across the lab, stopping when it became powder at the steel plate. It was awesome. And we got it in HD. I'll put it up soon enough ;)
i swear all good science comes at 3 in the morning when you stop giving a shit about safety and just do it.. i know this from exsperance haha
MrStemkilla 6 months ago in playlist More videos from Powerlabs
i dont see the point my sling shot has more power than this...
happygamestvfun1 1 year ago
@happygamestvfun1 this is a power supply test; nothing is being fired here. Look at the other videos on my channel to see the railgun in action.
Powerlabs 1 year ago
I thought I recognized that shop ;)
Pyrotronsgirl 2 years ago
gotcha so it didnt work um so use thicker wire? :) but hey you guys should do some simple circuit stuff like powering flybacks and things of that nature
panzuman 2 years ago
Yeah, I have some simple stuff like flybacks on my website if you want; I used to build those back when I was 12 ;) There is no railgun on this video, smart guy ;) Guess you don't know what one looks like? As the description says, this video shows a wire exploding on the railgun PSU so we could calibrate the current shunt for the oscilloscope before we put the gun in and fired it. The gun worked GREAT btw, videos coming up soon ;)
Powerlabs 2 years ago
i never said it was a railgun
panzuman 2 years ago
You sounded confused when you said "so it didn't work". The objetive was to explode a wire. The video shows a wire exploding and blowing the top off the box that was housing it...
Powerlabs 2 years ago
no i knew it wasnt a rail gun i thought you were testing a coil with your power supply before you put it to use in a gun i knew it was a test for wire just did not understand exactly what the test was
panzuman 2 years ago
Oh. No, no coil there. The gun has very little inductance, so we expected to see a very short, high current pulse. But since the total power supply impedance was unknown, we could not predict the exact pulse characteristics. We did this test with the scope set to trigger so that we could get a ballpark number for the current before firing the gun. The reason not to fire the gun for calibration purposes is because we wanted all shots to produce data, since rail life is limited.
Powerlabs 2 years ago
now i understand but i am no n00b at this ive built some before just never one of this power but great vid though i have since dismantled my rail/coil gun just so i could have fun with capacitors
panzuman 2 years ago
Oh man, just wait till you see what those 2100LBS worth of pulse capacitors do when we turn the power up ;) We fired the last shot at 105,000Joules. Peak current hit 3.5MILLION amps. It sounded like an artillery gun, the ground shook, the cables ripped themselves off their lugs, and it put a piece of plastic through an inch of plywood across the lab, stopping when it became powder at the steel plate. It was awesome. And we got it in HD. I'll put it up soon enough ;)
Powerlabs 2 years ago