ENB343 Rail Gun

QUT students demonstrating Faradays law. We hope this helps any future students who have to do this assignment. Designed and Built by Ivan Simunovic, Chia-How Chong and Stuart Ketchion.

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• weapons
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• electronics
• ENB343
• QUT
• Rail
• Gun
• Railgun
• Faraday
• Faradays
• Faraday's

[TheClayJazzman]

Hey guys, how much were those 820 microFarad capacitors? I'm thinking of a rail gun design that eliminates a majority of the heat and friction that happens. Slightly larger scale. i.e. Trying to make it using rails made out of a superconductor material.

Thanks for posting the video.

[MrIvansilni]

@TheClayJazzman wow i completely forgot about this video lol,from memory i believe they were all about $170 AUD

[calangel]

that's cool. have you all considered making a larger version, or is the rail wear too great? i ask this because i'd like to know if there is some loss in efficiency at larger sizes i.e. do you think the claims that a weaponized version will be ready for the US Navy in 2020-ish are legitimate?

[MrIvansilni]

@calangel hey, sorry i completely forgot about this video, rails get damaged really quickly so i suggest to allways use stronger material for your rails, we did this for an assignment at uni so we wont be building any more of them but it sure was fun, as for the us navy i dont know but i would love to see it if they do

[TV7000]

Maybe you need to use relay and a button, not high voltage switch?

(sorry for bad english)

[TheClayJazzman]

also, the navy's rail gun sent a 3.2 kg (7.0547 pound) projectile to 2.4 kilometers per second to answer the other guys question. i believe in 2007. plans to have a Rail Cannon integrated into the new Littoral combat ships cerca 2015ish. estimate sea dominance radius of 440 nautical miles