Homemade Coil Gun Pistol

I took apart four disposable cameras and used their charging circuit and capacitors to create a coil gun shaped like a pistol for ease of use. Each projectile has to be hand made and its power is limited but still very cool.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Homemade
• Coil
• Gun
• Capacitor
• projectile
• pistol
• handheld

[FrigginSmift]

an AC/DC converter is a wall mounted psu, it often looks like a small black plastic block you plug into an outlet and it puts out anywhere from 5-15V. A laptop charger is a good example of a AC/DC converter.

[drewsisely]

@IchigoCrash Is basically a giant electromagnet and one rail is positive while the other is negative and the current flows from the power source through the positive rail then the projectile then through the negative rail this causes the projectile to become an electromagnet that opposes the rails which unlike a coil gun that attracts the projectile a rail gun repels the projectile. Also because of the energy that flows through the projectile it causes it to heat up to extreme heats.

[drewsisely]

@IchigoCrash Yea FrigginSmift is right, to have a powerful rail gun or coil gun you need a large amount of power and large capacitors. A coil gun is a Gauss gun but a Gauss gun isn't necessarily a coil gun, you see a Gauss gun is any gun that uses electromagnetic or magnetic means to accelerate a projectile. At most power levels a rail gun with usually be much stronger than any type of coil gun because a coil gun actually pulls the projectile towards the coils while a rail gun

[EchoNine1]

would you please upload a schematic?

I'm planning on making a pretty powerful coilgun,

but I've been having some issues with the capacitor releasing it's charge as soon as it's fully charged

[Duces2k]

yo can u please make a tut ive been searching youtube for weeks for a gun like this

[BillyJoe1305]

Homemade proof of concepts are awesome!

[ThrasherContinue]

did you remove the flash bulb from the flash circut

[drewsisely]

@IchigoCrash Gauss is a generic term for any Gaussian type gun and a coil gun is a Gaussian type gun.

[SuperMcBrent]

i'm glad you call it an attempt

NO i'm not a hater, but i've seen better.

but it will do ;)