now i am a gun fanatic and i can help but notice how large and heavy you projectile seams to be, i believe you will have much better with a smaller lighter round, such as a ,357 or a 30 cal (308,30-06) you could also put a magnetic material inside the bullet to improve performance if you use my suggestion for a real "bullet".
Please, can you tell me the parametres of your capacitor bank and coil? What do you use as tiristor to make a shot and discharge capacitor? I have 4 special pulse Nippon electrolyc caps 450v 4700uF, what can you advice to make the same powerful induction gun?
Please, help me with informanion, I did the same gun, but it had only 5J in the projectile :(.
@GaussFanat My capacitor is rated at 230uf and 7kv. I’m using a triggered air gap for switching, but at 450v a thyristor will be more practical. I have found that a good coil diameter is 6” wide. Just coil up romex wire in a flat coil until it is 6” wide, and then connect the ground wire in series with one of the other wires. For maximum efficiency, the projectile should be aluminum and the same diameter as the coil, although a smaller diameter projectile will have a much higher velocity.
@AnselmoFanZero Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately I only have one capacitor this size but I plan on making a 1.7kJ multi stage coil gun with electrolytic capacitors. I wanted to test this with a smaller slug but I couldn’t find it.
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now i am a gun fanatic and i can help but notice how large and heavy you projectile seams to be, i believe you will have much better with a smaller lighter round, such as a ,357 or a 30 cal (308,30-06) you could also put a magnetic material inside the bullet to improve performance if you use my suggestion for a real "bullet".
lolmeadia 2 weeks ago
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lolmeadia 2 weeks ago
Not shoot it at a person!
DarkwithPeace 6 months ago
You should try using a Double Layer Electro-Chemical capacitor aka supercaps.
rbneville 7 months ago
Please, can you tell me the parametres of your capacitor bank and coil? What do you use as tiristor to make a shot and discharge capacitor? I have 4 special pulse Nippon electrolyc caps 450v 4700uF, what can you advice to make the same powerful induction gun?
Please, help me with informanion, I did the same gun, but it had only 5J in the projectile :(.
GaussFanat 7 months ago
@GaussFanat My capacitor is rated at 230uf and 7kv. I’m using a triggered air gap for switching, but at 450v a thyristor will be more practical. I have found that a good coil diameter is 6” wide. Just coil up romex wire in a flat coil until it is 6” wide, and then connect the ground wire in series with one of the other wires. For maximum efficiency, the projectile should be aluminum and the same diameter as the coil, although a smaller diameter projectile will have a much higher velocity.
railgun22101 6 months ago
@railgun22101
Thank you!
GaussFanat 6 months ago
Just wind a normal coil...get some aluminum-tubing fitting your barrel (inside) and you are good to go.
AnselmoFanZero 9 months ago
@AnselmoFanZero I am definitely going to try that
railgun22101 9 months ago
@railgun22101
A slug made of aluminum would do it as well.
Place it right after the center of the coil.
AnselmoFanZero 9 months ago
More stages, smaller slug.
AnselmoFanZero 9 months ago
@AnselmoFanZero Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately I only have one capacitor this size but I plan on making a 1.7kJ multi stage coil gun with electrolytic capacitors. I wanted to test this with a smaller slug but I couldn’t find it.
railgun22101 9 months ago
nice job making a target this time
pacman529 9 months ago
@pacman529 thanks
railgun22101 9 months ago