12 Capacitor Coilgun

[Bylga]

That is insane!

[SchamanetheSchamane]

little bit self destructing, isn't it^^^^

[4lge]

Oh yeah, in your case you have a ~78 joule coilgun ;)

And I can't believe I ever ask this, but what's the song you used in this vid?

[vusiliyK]

@4lge Nights Dew by Shape of Despair

[4lge]

Hah! Those sparks make the coilgun look pretty awesome, but doesn't seem very efficient^^

Well, you actually CAN wire capacitors in serial, increasing the achievable voltage, but decreasing the effective amount of µF, like 1/4 with 2 caps and 1/16 with 4 caps if I'm not wrong. But you can still store the same amount of energy since the higher voltage. Well, it could be possible that capacitors with lower capacity than the rest of the setup get overcharged, though.

[valinciusjv54]

How do u put the capacitors in a series

[vusiliyK]

@valinciusjv54 My capacitors are in parallel

[MrUndeadMaker]

wats da charge rate

[vusiliyK]

@MrUndeadMaker depends on how full the battery is, 20-50 seconds

[theRYNchannel]

realy cool, but alot of the pwr is waisted cuz not enuf coils

[AnselmoFanZero]

Hope the caps are in parallel config. Disp.Cams charge to 330V....not 4000.

[coilsinamotor]

where the spakes comming from?

[vusiliyK]

@coilsinamotor  theres a loose connection between the capacitors and the circuit board.

[coilsinamotor]

@vusiliyK oh i c thankx cool gun theough the sparks and's some looks to it :D

[tesladude19]

actually it would only be 330 volts....

[southphilie]

could you post some links to tutorials i couldn't find any super helpful ones.

[vusiliyK]

@southphilie well the one i used somewhat was h t t p : / / matthack . c o m /2008/02/22/how-to-build-the-c­oil-gun-v20-part-2/ but i didnt really use a tutorial because I have enough electrical knowledge to make one by myself...