Homemade Gauss Gun

[Tequilla449]

How old was you when you built this?

[deathlyemo123]

Unfortunately, It's not like the halo gauss cannon, which is way more power (and visible).

[bazengao]

are the capacitor in line or parallel?

[1Immortalman]

how and how long does it charge&

[JohnMinigun]

Did you put it back to Fridge ? : )

[misterchief47]

break it down. What does anti mean and eat does parallel mean?

[smokescreenninjato]

wtf is anti parallel

[RomanNumural9]

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[skeebert]

you should mount this to a real rifle stock, mod it to fit, and make a longer barrel out of steel brake lines or something. then make your own sharpened projectiles.

[jacker372]

i think thats actually a coilgun not a gauss gun

[UT2004Gamer]

can you send me the chicken?... i am hungry xD

[maxbie123]

next video: shoot your friend

[Paganavatar]

poor frozen chicken......:D

[xyan235]

Nice, it would be nicer if you make it bigger

[realyoyoweb]

And the charge circuit ? does it come from a disposable camera too ? or have you made it yourself with a voltage transformer who comes from pc power supply unit or something like that ?

[cMasterCreations]

The charging circuit comes from the disposable camera too. Which is nice becuase it charges the capacitors up and then indicates when they are fully charged with a light. Its the same process as when you charge the flash on a camera and the little light comes on when the flash is charged.

[realyoyoweb]

so, your charge circuit must charge the capacitor at 280 V, like mine

[realyoyoweb]

by putting capacitor in series you increase the limite voltage who they can accepte. but the voltage transformer is always the same, so in real your system is working with 280V. you should put all of them in parallel, in this way you could got 330v(max voltage) and 1340µF (twice more powerful)

[cMasterCreations]

I used two charging circuits. I charged 11 capacitors that were in parallel with one circuit and then other 11 with the other circuit. These two banks of 11 capacitors were then connected in series.

[cMasterCreations]

Yes, one of the circuits would charge the capacitors to somewhere around 280v. I usually was able to get a little higher voltage then that. Only once did they charge to 280v, most of the of the time they charged to over 285v for me. 300v wasn't uncommon. Once it charged up to 320v. I did this for a science fair project so I recorded the voltages on every firing and still have those numbers.

[ChickenCommander]

can you add a better descryption? maybe a tutorial?

[sinclairbrett]

nice one

[indianbrook]

thats a coil gun

a gauss gun uses regual magnets not electromagnets

coil guns ar beter

[cMasterCreations]

Im pretty sure a gauss gun can be used to describe a magnetic accelerator that uses permanent magnets or electromagnets. Wikipedia, powerlabs and 50% of websites use the phrase "gauss gun" to refer to something similar to what I made.

[Phlatpop]

yes but note it is more commonly refered to as a coil gun. That and the term gauss gun is more general a guass gun could be a multitude of things

[1016JP1]

Dude c'mon, you need to get you coil gun to go through a can, - Hint: make the bullet smaler and heavier. Maybe add some more coils.

[soroastronik]

muy bueno, sobre todo porque no te guardas "la leche" (los secretos) del armado... ¡very good salchicha!.

[carbednotch]

need to make the bullet shorter

[09106073576]

lol.

4 stars!!

keep rockin'!!

[09106073576]

lol!

the chicken is pawned!!!

[MVPsnow]

thanks! i have been trying to get my coilgun stronger but i wastn sure what i was doing wrong with the capacitors

[MVPsnow]

or*. ment to say or, not of

[MVPsnow]

hey did you connect all of the capacitors in parallel of some parallel and others in series?

[cMasterCreations]

I used two banks of eleven capacitors in parrallel (330v, 1340μf each bank). The two banks are in series (660v, 670μf total).

[gonepishing]

I posted a video of my two most reecent coilguns. it has a rather small 330V 640 μf bank, is this under powered?

the projectile is 15 grams, a tad heavy, that may be the peoblem with penetration

[cMasterCreations]

Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier.

There could be several things effecting the preformance of your gun. It could be underpowered, the projectile could be too heavy (I believe a projectile without threads would work better), the coil might not have enough inductance (online I found the best coilguns had many turns of wire)...

Even with my coilgun, I could probably tune it better and get a greater preformance.

[gonepishing]

same; there are very specific ways to make a coilgun with the most power

my coilgun was built according to plans for both the capacitance and the coilsize