This looks like one of the videos the FBI would recover during a raid on this guy's house following him robbing a bank with a functional Iron Man suit.
Russ... just awesome. This is one of the best videos out there due to the simplicity of your approach. I like your design alot, again it's simplicity proves the theory works... thanks for posting it.
Notice this guy uses only metal with no insulation on it? I would like to see him dip that foil in plastic or something to make it non-conductive. I have been studying making a rail gun for a while now and I can tell you that your metal is just simply burning up. Take a look at the paper. Notice no holes? That's because it isn't really firing.
@russelburgraymond ... it's firing but the projectile is burning up because tin foil melts at pretty low temperature. No holes in the paper - a baseball sized wad of tinfoil, it won't put a hole in paper, it doesn't have the mass to do it. Insulating it wouldn't work, then you'd have no current to move the projectile. A BB would be a decent projectile if it would fit.
The cool part is that a molten projectile would pretty much make it a plasma gun if the right metals were used :)
Everyone obviously does not know what they are dealing with. Talking about charging to a voltage specified on the side of the capacitor - will never happen unless you use a source that is that voltage. Your current is the part that charges up. To charge the capacitor you have to consider t = C*R, where C is the capacitance and R is the resistance. It is then charged over 5 time constants. The capacitors will obviously be in parallel as the capacitance decreases in series.
@ Rwg42985 I hope it works for you, it has worked well for me good while sticking the outputs in parallel, I can charge my 800uF bank in seconds but it drains the battery fast.
Watch my video ' how to make a 400v charging circuit ' to learn how to make a miniaturised version of the photo flash circuit from scratch, it takes up far less space and can be easily podded to give a higher output current, it only takes four components and runs off of a 1.5v battery
so what the total capacitance you had. could you actually tell the specific type of capacitors. im kinda familiar with stuff, but not to the extent that you are. and why do you have to charge them with a camera flash charger, why not just a regular battery.
I just watched this again. PUT SOME GLOVES ON 4:33 or your gonna be pushing up flowers! A CROSS BODY SHOCK (or hand to foot shock for that matter) from a photo flash unit is LETHAL!
hey dude you should make a video explaining on how a rail gun works. Ive been looking at some other you-tube videos but they don't really tell me how it works they just show it in action.
@subnannitechnologies 4 weeks ago, so, i know you will need to look back on the page, and sorry, but, it works on the lorentz force look it up on wikipedia.
Basically, a charge is run through the rails, and, the ammo, being conductive (important, can't be magnetic, then it stays in the barrel, sorry steel) which causes an electromagnetic force to be generated, and, the shot, is fired!
The rail gun works, that is true. But... HOW CAN NOBODY SEE THAT THE PROJECTILE IS JUST BEING VAPORIZED?!
The two things that cause this are:
A-the projectile simply isn't big enough to withstand that kind of amperage flowing through it that fast. Plus, the projectile needs to be able to withstand the acceleration, so it must be bigger. AND, POSSIBLY EVEN MORE IMPORTANT....
B-For the Lorentz force to work, the projectile must be moving before the current is applied, otherwise it's just a welder
How does it fire aluminum and copper.? Isnt the principle based on electromagnetic force thrusting an object between the 2 rails so it would have to be a magnetic attracted metal to propel wouldnt it?
as long as the projectile conducts electricity, withstands the heat from firing, and withstands the force of acceleration without losing contact from one or both rails, it can be made out of anything. Aluminum has conventionally been the preferred armature material for both research and military railguns. There are various reasons for this:It has a lower melting point than the rails, reducing rail erosion somewhat, It is easily available and easy to machine.
@YoungChilla74 This was a learning experience and just for fun project! Not to be used for any thing else. See people think weapons are for killing but you can use such a device to let say shoot a satellite in to space??? Or even use it in space sence it dose not need air to run??? Not allways do people do things for those reasons! Thanks, ~Russ
Hazard's your comments are correct, but that is far from the only difference. A rail gun works on the Lorentz force, large current flow, produces incredible heat, wear and friction on rails, etc... In a coil or Gauss gun magnetism is the driving force, produced by large voltage. Ideally, unlike the rail gun, the projectile does not contact the electrical or any components of the coil gun so there is much less wear on the gun.
@j0nesee sorry but what do you think the Lorentz force is? A rail gun, coil gun, mass driver, all those use electromagnetism as their force. The Lorentz force is just a slightly different way of utilizing electromagnetic force than just wrapping wire around a tube and creating a powerful electromagnet, but only brief enough to only accelerate the projectile, not accelerate and then decelerate. Same force, different utilization.
Hmmm, appears im in the right feild....im currently in school for electrical engineering.....oh yeah, cool shit....could you imagine an assault rifle that was a rail gun, light....compact....and high muzzle velocities and energies.....no doubt the future in weaponry :P
Working with high voltage on a metal table, with metal scraps on it, wearing metal rings, and using swimwear as eye protection... it won't be long now
the highest volt capacitor i have 60, I geuss im going to have to use alot of these, but can youmix and match capacitor for example you could have different voltage ones
@Crazynerdfilms1 Coil gun! Much more fun and last long time! Rails crash and burn and not as usfull! Coil gun! At least at first! Thanks or watching! ~Russ
i would actually say rail! i have a large 400v one i built, and it is much easier to maintain and build than a coil (gauss) gun. the concept is much simpler, there's not as much of an EM field produced to interfere (or destroy) with nearby electronics, and there's a satisfying arc :) plus the copper winding on a gauss gun must be very precise.
@Crazynerdfilms1 a rail gun because while its easy to make a coil gun that demonstrates the concept its realy hard to make a coil gun with the same level of power as a railgun that is also as simple
@octoberguitaru2 I was going to build one that used bb's next! I just haven't had time yet, but it's in the works! It seems strange that know one had done it? Or seems that way! ~Russ
@TheDieHard777 The two flat pieces of aluminum that he bolted down near each other inside the plexiglass plates are the rails. If he had put an object (bullet) in there, it would have shot it into the paper (maybe even thru the paper).
capacitors- seris or parallel? projectile goes in the space inside the plexi glass between the aluminum? so it looks like one rail is + the other is - ? anyway, looks cool :)
@MrAwsome514 If it weren't for the rails, it wouldn't be a railgun, it would be a coil gun. Both drive the projectile using electromagnetic force, but they operate on different principles.
@Sithrazer I am not saying just use a simple coil and make a coil gun I am saying replace the rails with two thin strips of metal just to make contact with the projectile and on the other side of them place a coil wound through the area where the rails would normally be soldierd to those two thin strips. Think of the solid rails like a solid core wire. Well this is like replacing that wire with a stranded core wire except it is actually a coil. Its hard to explain the orientation of the coil.
The piece of Aluminum you are adding is not meant to be your projectile. The idea behind the rail gun is that it fires a penetrator with sabot. The piece of aluminum acts as a sabot because it vaporizes and ionizes into plasma which creates the forward thrust. In your video, no projectile was there to be thrusted forward so your aluminum merely vaporized. Hopes this helps, and congrats on the prototype:)
All you need now is a resistor and a discharge circuit, and you will have a (more or less) safe railgun that you won't have to discharge across a penny. That's a LETHAL amount of current man!
The one I built was FAR less impressive and my switch wasn't robust enough to handle the current. It melted rather quickly.
I used the circuit board from a dispoesable camera as the base for mine, but your old charger seems to work VERY well!
That's awesome I gotta make one! Does it do anything though? Sire there's alot f flashy lights but it didt even go through the paper, or it didn't look like it. What would happen if I shot that at myself?
no, it did not go through the paper, at this scale it wont do much at all. it probably wont hurt you at all either... but the concept works even at this small scale, I would like to build one that uses bb's. when I get time I will build it! Thanks for watching!
This looks like one of the videos the FBI would recover during a raid on this guy's house following him robbing a bank with a functional Iron Man suit.
That sentence was difficult.
jlowe424 3 days ago
Russ... just awesome. This is one of the best videos out there due to the simplicity of your approach. I like your design alot, again it's simplicity proves the theory works... thanks for posting it.
Have you gone any further?
Earlsfat 1 week ago
you can replace gun powder
zlafrenz 3 weeks ago
@rwg42985 I am soooooo interested with your work here.... do you by any chance have schematics for this coz I'm still new to these things???
ZZAZZ23569 1 month ago
@ZZAZZ23569 Plans for these types of weapons can be found at amazing1.com.
Pagansniper 2 weeks ago
Redneck mad scientist ftw. You rock.
t4paN 1 month ago
You have the look of a mad scientist about you... Awesome rail gun anyway!
iFlarexXx 2 months ago
You r a holy terror. Good job!
thefarmerism 3 months ago
ALL THAT WORK FOR A LITTLE SPARK???..I CAN DO THAT BY JUST FARTING...WHAT A LOSER
ThatGuyThatComments 5 months ago
hey can you tell me if you connected the capacitors in series or parallel?...would really appreciate your help =)
1213win 5 months ago
hey how thick is the aluminum?
jeffjeff2955 5 months ago
Flying sparks FTW!
powertoolification 6 months ago
Fuckin sweet, waaaay easier to "watch and learn" from than alot of the other videos on here.
maninthesandcap 7 months ago
@maninthesandcap thanks man, glad to hear that. ~Russ
rwg42985 6 months ago
Notice this guy uses only metal with no insulation on it? I would like to see him dip that foil in plastic or something to make it non-conductive. I have been studying making a rail gun for a while now and I can tell you that your metal is just simply burning up. Take a look at the paper. Notice no holes? That's because it isn't really firing.
russelburgraymond 7 months ago 2
@russelburgraymond ... it's firing but the projectile is burning up because tin foil melts at pretty low temperature. No holes in the paper - a baseball sized wad of tinfoil, it won't put a hole in paper, it doesn't have the mass to do it. Insulating it wouldn't work, then you'd have no current to move the projectile. A BB would be a decent projectile if it would fit.
The cool part is that a molten projectile would pretty much make it a plasma gun if the right metals were used :)
Earlsfat 1 week ago
Cool plasma shot, but the paper didnt even move xD
AnselmoFanZero 7 months ago 2
fun. i pooped a little. I'm really drunk, and I apologize. Not for pooping. Or for being drunk. Hiccup.
ShadowofLocke 7 months ago
better remake it to coil gun :D
Demoman42 7 months ago
have you not noticed that your aluminum foil actually burns up because it's so small? it doesn't fire at all...
viiReCoNzZ 8 months ago
gay as hell
tl;dw
norkkron 8 months ago
One day your gonna cause an atomic explosion!!! XD lol!
SquadFatherEnt 8 months ago
ITS COOL!!!
danieladapter 8 months ago
thats a dime not a quarter
nik64534231 8 months ago
the beginning explanation was awesome if it works it will be awesome and on tape if it blows up you getta see it :P
mrjohnthrasher 8 months ago
Hey, sorry to bother you (my physics concepts are pretty weak).
Don't you need a magnetic field too in order to produce a force on a current-carrying component? (Fleming's Rule)
gine6758 8 months ago
@gine6758 it uses lorentz force
514009265 8 months ago
2:29 "5, 3, 2, 1!" WTF?
kievaughn1 9 months ago
@kievaughn1 FIRE in three two one.. not five three two one..
jeppewie1206 8 months ago
@kievaughn1 He said "Fire [in] 3..2...1...." you giant clit.
AdiViv95 8 months ago
@AdiViv95 you are what you eat!
ShadowofLocke 7 months ago
would it work if i use 315v 100uF?
JusTINcredible406 9 months ago
Everyone obviously does not know what they are dealing with. Talking about charging to a voltage specified on the side of the capacitor - will never happen unless you use a source that is that voltage. Your current is the part that charges up. To charge the capacitor you have to consider t = C*R, where C is the capacitance and R is the resistance. It is then charged over 5 time constants. The capacitors will obviously be in parallel as the capacitance decreases in series.
amparch 9 months ago
Just think. What's taken the US navy 2 years to research. Took one guy a weekend to make work. You, sir need a job in the government XD
MultiDuggles 9 months ago
Very cool
killer3596 9 months ago
@ Rwg42985 I hope it works for you, it has worked well for me good while sticking the outputs in parallel, I can charge my 800uF bank in seconds but it drains the battery fast.
ConnorXV 10 months ago
Watch my video ' how to make a 400v charging circuit ' to learn how to make a miniaturised version of the photo flash circuit from scratch, it takes up far less space and can be easily podded to give a higher output current, it only takes four components and runs off of a 1.5v battery
ConnorXV 10 months ago
@ConnorXV Dude! Will do! I fried my charger any how so I will check it out. Thanks man! ~Russ
rwg42985 10 months ago
Where is the "~Russ" at the end?
TurkishGamer92 10 months ago
@TurkishGamer92 Lol good qustion!!! Haha :) ~Russ
rwg42985 10 months ago
@rwg42985 ;-)
TurkishGamer92 10 months ago
It didn't look like it put a hole in the paper...
SpartanEx117 11 months ago
@SpartanEx117 are you serious? you can see it come out of the other side in the slow motion shot
DevilEll 10 months ago
@DevilEll I might be able to see it come out of the gun, but not the other side of the paper.
SpartanEx117 9 months ago
so what the total capacitance you had. could you actually tell the specific type of capacitors. im kinda familiar with stuff, but not to the extent that you are. and why do you have to charge them with a camera flash charger, why not just a regular battery.
EazyE6793 11 months ago
I just watched this again. PUT SOME GLOVES ON 4:33 or your gonna be pushing up flowers! A CROSS BODY SHOCK (or hand to foot shock for that matter) from a photo flash unit is LETHAL!
faffaflunkie 1 year ago
Hey dummy. Do NOT grab the high voltage wires with both hands. That capacitor bank has enough energy to kill you.
faffaflunkie 1 year ago
@faffaflunkie But he has eye protection and everything.....
This is why we can`t have nice things.....PARTYBRAKER
Gordinak2 1 year ago
Hey, I have some questions, i will be very thankful to you if you reply..
1. What is the minimum voltage and uf required for the capacitors? because i may not be able to get capacitors of 330v and 120uf.
2. How to charge these capacitors? because i dont have that charger thing like you have. so how should i charge the capacitors and for how long?
3. Do we have to charge these capacitors after every shot? and for how long we should charge them?
PLEASE REPLY SOON. Thank You
bigbang308 1 year ago
@bigbang308
1.Size and voltage will verry, you want the most jolts.
2.charg them up to there rated voltage. I use a camra flash charger. You can google other ways to charge them.
3. Depends on the rail gun, but most o the time, yes
Hope it helps, ~Russ
rwg42985 1 year ago
@rwg42985 Thanks alot!
But one more thing please? Can you tell me the dimensions(length n breath) of the aluminium you used in the rail?
Thanks
bigbang308 1 year ago
You seem like a really fun guy to hang with.
fredrickpendragon 1 year ago
@fredrickpendragon thanks, ~Russ
rwg42985 1 year ago
hey dude you should make a video explaining on how a rail gun works. Ive been looking at some other you-tube videos but they don't really tell me how it works they just show it in action.
subnannitechnologies 1 year ago
@subnannitechnologies 4 weeks ago, so, i know you will need to look back on the page, and sorry, but, it works on the lorentz force look it up on wikipedia.
Basically, a charge is run through the rails, and, the ammo, being conductive (important, can't be magnetic, then it stays in the barrel, sorry steel) which causes an electromagnetic force to be generated, and, the shot, is fired!
deathhog 1 year ago
The rail gun works, that is true. But... HOW CAN NOBODY SEE THAT THE PROJECTILE IS JUST BEING VAPORIZED?!
The two things that cause this are:
A-the projectile simply isn't big enough to withstand that kind of amperage flowing through it that fast. Plus, the projectile needs to be able to withstand the acceleration, so it must be bigger. AND, POSSIBLY EVEN MORE IMPORTANT....
B-For the Lorentz force to work, the projectile must be moving before the current is applied, otherwise it's just a welder
wepnsXprt 1 year ago
@wepnsXprt or use tungsten :P
zomgwtfbbqbagel 1 year ago
haha the copper reminds me of the x wing rockts
Gonthor1000 1 year ago
How does it fire aluminum and copper.? Isnt the principle based on electromagnetic force thrusting an object between the 2 rails so it would have to be a magnetic attracted metal to propel wouldnt it?
FilthyFletch 1 year ago
@FilthyFletch Good Question no
as long as the projectile conducts electricity, withstands the heat from firing, and withstands the force of acceleration without losing contact from one or both rails, it can be made out of anything. Aluminum has conventionally been the preferred armature material for both research and military railguns. There are various reasons for this:It has a lower melting point than the rails, reducing rail erosion somewhat, It is easily available and easy to machine.
wepnsXprt 1 year ago
I thought that aluminum was non magnetic..try a piece of .040 welding tungsten.
xlasvegan7x 1 year ago
are those swimming goggles? well i guess they are better than nothing
paintballgundown8 1 year ago
lol the railgun shoot out melting metal. that must be cool
Tigrexboy9 1 year ago
Wow, the coin got fucked up!
LeetMonsta 1 year ago
That's one of the coolest things I've seen...I want to make one now
CChissel 1 year ago
wow it must be hard to be capable of creating such things and not use them on people.. jus sayin...
YoungChilla74 1 year ago
@YoungChilla74 This was a learning experience and just for fun project! Not to be used for any thing else. See people think weapons are for killing but you can use such a device to let say shoot a satellite in to space??? Or even use it in space sence it dose not need air to run??? Not allways do people do things for those reasons! Thanks, ~Russ
rwg42985 1 year ago 19
That was awesome!!!! Can u make a vid on how tom do it
lugia43 1 year ago
theese are not safety goggles :P ... theese are for swimming i guess :P
remsdh 1 year ago
lol...shoot a rat with that
gbenifits1968 1 year ago
What's the difference between a coil gun and a rail gun?
THEFINALHAZARD 1 year ago
@THEFINALHAZARD A coil gun is maid with coils a rail gun is maid with rails. Google it! Thanks, ~Russ
rwg42985 1 year ago
@rwg42985 helpful, nice name!
Lmodkicksyourass 1 year ago
Hazard's your comments are correct, but that is far from the only difference. A rail gun works on the Lorentz force, large current flow, produces incredible heat, wear and friction on rails, etc... In a coil or Gauss gun magnetism is the driving force, produced by large voltage. Ideally, unlike the rail gun, the projectile does not contact the electrical or any components of the coil gun so there is much less wear on the gun.
j0nesee 1 year ago
@j0nesee Thankyou! I didnot have time to type all that! You are dead on! Good job, thanks! ~Russ
rwg42985 1 year ago
@j0nesee sorry but what do you think the Lorentz force is? A rail gun, coil gun, mass driver, all those use electromagnetism as their force. The Lorentz force is just a slightly different way of utilizing electromagnetic force than just wrapping wire around a tube and creating a powerful electromagnet, but only brief enough to only accelerate the projectile, not accelerate and then decelerate. Same force, different utilization.
wepnsXprt 1 year ago
thats so cool, lol im sure its simple but you must be one clever guy, looks deceived me, you look unintelligent but i was in awe the whole time lol
pieman3968 1 year ago
lol bootlegged tazer gun
MeSoAsianprod 1 year ago
kool goggles
mynameisnotcory 1 year ago
swimming goggles???
ghostrere 1 year ago
Hmmm, appears im in the right feild....im currently in school for electrical engineering.....oh yeah, cool shit....could you imagine an assault rifle that was a rail gun, light....compact....and high muzzle velocities and energies.....no doubt the future in weaponry :P
AscavariServante 1 year ago
hell yeah props bro this shit is sick!!!!!!!
bobbygreenthumb 1 year ago
FLICK MY BIC!
clube20 1 year ago
Very cool
MREVYLPIE 1 year ago
yeah sam winchester!
cybrhckr 1 year ago
you should shoot copper cab with that.
bruhe 1 year ago
"One time, my buddy Kieth made a railgun"
productNine 1 year ago
wow thats cool
jamonit313 1 year ago
if the military can build a rail gun, then so can you!
aquatimes637 1 year ago
Nice, really like it.
TheBoredPleasure 1 year ago
Sweet, now to make a larger model and mount it on a bi-pedal tank. . .
BlueFox284 1 year ago 3
@BlueFox284 metal gear reference for the win!
ncb53 1 year ago
backyard engineer right here. props!
gatoradeee 1 year ago
How about a small tungsten carbide drill bit? :)
smeghead666 1 year ago
will u be my friend ;)
shinnok842002 1 year ago
Cool.
Altair565 1 year ago
Holy shit, could barely see it take off.
MegaMrCoffee 1 year ago
who needs a gun when you have all the science in the world!
MrRawr18 1 year ago
i have the same goggles.
littleseanx 1 year ago
You're a fucking scientist!
Thumbs up if you agree.
riverwaltz 1 year ago 9
@riverwaltz mad but ya no doubt
MrRawr18 1 year ago
wait so did it shoot or what all i saw were some flashes
daygusaurusRex 1 year ago
Working with high voltage on a metal table, with metal scraps on it, wearing metal rings, and using swimwear as eye protection... it won't be long now
scurrier03 1 year ago
u should make a vid on how did u make the charger
chilidress 1 year ago
Cool
MrIlikegadgets 1 year ago
3 people got shot with this...
Nismopower93 1 year ago
he look like some psihopate
roman236236 1 year ago
if it works cool if it blows up u will get to see it! LMAO!
bbarrett910 1 year ago
2:17 best eye protection evar!!!!!!!!!!!!
originalbrodyg420 1 year ago 41
ha pretty fuckin kool!!
Sn0manX 1 year ago
ever tried iron or solid aluminium projectile?
TeslaCoilArbiter 1 year ago 3
@TeslaCoilArbiter Nope! But will give it a try ~Russ
rwg42985 1 year ago
Try getting your hands on some pure iron pellets instead :P
And how powerful is the magnetic field according to your maths?
Aaaand wouldn't coils work better? Or is that a coilgun maybe? lol
IntoxicatedHumans 1 year ago
how long did it take you to make this
baileythedudeman57 1 year ago
the highest volt capacitor i have 60, I geuss im going to have to use alot of these, but can youmix and match capacitor for example you could have different voltage ones
Volgunn 1 year ago
Really nice... makes me want to abandon Administrations and start studyng Engineering instead :D
BTW, how fast was the projectile traveling? Got any idea?
VRichardsn 1 year ago
@VRichardsn Not any idea! ~Russ
rwg42985 1 year ago
You made a taser when you were a kid?
Are you in any way related to the engineer from team fortress 2?
Fyrburn 1 year ago
Im debating whether to build a coilgun or a railgun what shoud I make?
Crazynerdfilms1 1 year ago 2
@Crazynerdfilms1 Coil gun! Much more fun and last long time! Rails crash and burn and not as usfull! Coil gun! At least at first! Thanks or watching! ~Russ
rwg42985 1 year ago
@Crazynerdfilms1
i would actually say rail! i have a large 400v one i built, and it is much easier to maintain and build than a coil (gauss) gun. the concept is much simpler, there's not as much of an EM field produced to interfere (or destroy) with nearby electronics, and there's a satisfying arc :) plus the copper winding on a gauss gun must be very precise.
genesis1357 1 year ago
@Crazynerdfilms1 a rail gun because while its easy to make a coil gun that demonstrates the concept its realy hard to make a coil gun with the same level of power as a railgun that is also as simple
smokescreenninjato 1 year ago
your goggles rule
DooomSurf 1 year ago
oh man i wanna make one!
guerrillaman69 1 year ago
im confused
icouldntmakeupaname2 1 year ago
has no one else thought of using bbs?
octoberguitaru2 1 year ago
@octoberguitaru2 I was going to build one that used bb's next! I just haven't had time yet, but it's in the works! It seems strange that know one had done it? Or seems that way! ~Russ
rwg42985 1 year ago
@rwg42985 cool
octoberguitaru2 1 year ago
try making a mini rail mini-gun next. that would be crazy
dfadchoco 1 year ago
mine doesnt work, the spark is pretty big but the aluminium ball just get burnt and doesnt get out from the gun
mok0s1 1 year ago
@mok0s1 I had to use a verry small live of copper to get it to work well. ~Russ
rwg42985 1 year ago
Why is is called a rail gun? It doesn't even look like a gun.
TheDieHard777 1 year ago
@TheDieHard777 Cause you're a dumbass that's why
Mitchal13579 1 year ago
@TheDieHard777 The two flat pieces of aluminum that he bolted down near each other inside the plexiglass plates are the rails. If he had put an object (bullet) in there, it would have shot it into the paper (maybe even thru the paper).
itsmedontyousee 1 year ago
@itsmedontyousee
i was of the opinion that the name "Railgun" comes from the idea of shooting metal rails through a strong electro magnetic field.
Zoddom 1 year ago
so the aluminum goes out the side opposite the wires?
Hulianomarkety 1 year ago
i need to make one of these the size of my house O_O just for fun:P and damn what do i need to make one?
mannyboy95 1 year ago
@mannyboy95 alot of money :P
100redeye 1 year ago
"ok guys, i created a raaaaiiilll gun..........." lawl
rapplejab 1 year ago
capacitors- seris or parallel? projectile goes in the space inside the plexi glass between the aluminum? so it looks like one rail is + the other is - ? anyway, looks cool :)
medievalman86 1 year ago
That's fucking awesome. Find a way to super size it and put it on a truck or something.
TaylorHolmes 1 year ago
You be careful with that now. You almost ruined that piece of paper... almost.
poidial 1 year ago
sound?
thedisturbed666 1 year ago
this guy sounds like he's acting or something... weird.
jasonman05 1 year ago
I would like to know why all railgun designs use solid rails while every other electromagnetic device uses a coil for maximum efficiency?
MrAwsome514 1 year ago
@MrAwsome514 If it weren't for the rails, it wouldn't be a railgun, it would be a coil gun. Both drive the projectile using electromagnetic force, but they operate on different principles.
Sithrazer 1 year ago
@Sithrazer I am not saying just use a simple coil and make a coil gun I am saying replace the rails with two thin strips of metal just to make contact with the projectile and on the other side of them place a coil wound through the area where the rails would normally be soldierd to those two thin strips. Think of the solid rails like a solid core wire. Well this is like replacing that wire with a stranded core wire except it is actually a coil. Its hard to explain the orientation of the coil.
MrAwsome514 1 year ago
impressive
genocide111 1 year ago
Im gonna ask my physics teach at school if ican make one XD, we are learning about electromagnetism ATM.
Terminal2705 1 year ago
how do you even make the rail?
NuclearVoltageX20 1 year ago
the one at 3:10 is the best. Appeared to be the most efficient.
PrecisionEngineered 1 year ago
This is so fucking awesome.
Maxaker67 1 year ago
The piece of Aluminum you are adding is not meant to be your projectile. The idea behind the rail gun is that it fires a penetrator with sabot. The piece of aluminum acts as a sabot because it vaporizes and ionizes into plasma which creates the forward thrust. In your video, no projectile was there to be thrusted forward so your aluminum merely vaporized. Hopes this helps, and congrats on the prototype:)
benner2000 1 year ago
still choose real guns over railguns
asado300 1 year ago
In all sense, that is a working rail gun. Freaking awesome man, hopefully you can make a more powerful one!
canadasteve45 2 years ago 11
All you need now is a resistor and a discharge circuit, and you will have a (more or less) safe railgun that you won't have to discharge across a penny. That's a LETHAL amount of current man!
The one I built was FAR less impressive and my switch wasn't robust enough to handle the current. It melted rather quickly.
I used the circuit board from a dispoesable camera as the base for mine, but your old charger seems to work VERY well!
tsb247 2 years ago
Wow, good job. It would be interesting to see what it looks like using a high speed camera.
4thMG 2 years ago
That's awesome I gotta make one! Does it do anything though? Sire there's alot f flashy lights but it didt even go through the paper, or it didn't look like it. What would happen if I shot that at myself?
xerikx1435 2 years ago
no, it did not go through the paper, at this scale it wont do much at all. it probably wont hurt you at all either... but the concept works even at this small scale, I would like to build one that uses bb's. when I get time I will build it! Thanks for watching!
rwg42985 2 years ago
@rwg42985 Def post the video on that one :P
draconite420 1 year ago
dude sweet work! im working on making stuff like that two but its safty first when you are working with that kinda voltidge
SKYGUY03 2 years ago
Is the charger an old Minolta Flash?
MattGloer 2 years ago
old flash of some kind but not shore of the brand.
rwg42985 2 years ago
Thanks for the video. This REALLY helped me with some research. Pretty cool what you've done =D
OnyxArdesco 2 years ago
thanks for watching! posted it for people like you so hope it helped!
rwg42985 2 years ago
im sorry but thats just a bit badass
phreezerburne 2 years ago
Nice cuz!!! I remember that tazer from back in the day!
Yoti1980 2 years ago
nice, did it go through the paper? how many volts is the flash?
batteryphil 2 years ago
no it did not, the caps are rated at 330v dc.
rwg42985 2 years ago
pretty cool stuff. howd you learn about all this when you were a kid/?
Th3ron3 2 years ago
just taking stuff apart and messing around. :)
rwg42985 2 years ago