Railgun test fire #1

steel tip plastic projectile, with plasma armature, ~6kJ, vapor injection

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• railgun
• plasma
• capacitors

[devilluffe]

so does it shoot a projectile or pure energy

[SlavaVB]

projectile

[silverska8er]

sweet i want to build one

[SlavaVB]

it wont be very entertaining, sorry. if you want to see some nice energy conversion from electric to mechanical... try Thomson disc guns, and ring launchers.

[MrNewpants]

@devilluffe pure energy? wth man : DD

[SpecklePattern]

@Casowsky Well you "shoot" energy if it is just radiation. Like light.

[Casowsky]

@oomxD HOW DO I SHOT ENERGY?

[realyoyoweb]

It's the same things than a coilgun but instead of a coil, energy pass through 2 metal plate. the projectil is between them

[tato312]

the railgun operates just with energy like the coilgun? sorry but i havent understood quite well the functioning of the RG

[tedthefarmer]

All that for a little hole in an apple? You guys must be pretty keen.

[oomxD]

hey,what are that for capacitors?they look quite huge^^

[oomxD]

how could something shot "energy"?^^

[fitbikeco339]

good luck

it probably took numerous teams of the best scientists and engineers in the world to design it.

[SlavaVB]

I should have used parallel, but this is plasma armature / wire atomization... if it was parallel then it would have worked well with graphite projectiles and such without atomization. But yeah, dont do it in series like I did.