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The goal of this guide is to show you how to make a railgun. Railgun's offer a green method of projectile acceleration, with minimal byproducts and waste. Railguns use electricity to propel a projectile. because of this, they create no waste.
In addition, the materials used do not pose a ecohazard, while the materials makes it very long life.
Depending on your resources, this project can be free, or up to 1000$.
Do not attempt this unless you have expiereance with high voltage and projectile's, this can be FATAL. You should know how to make one already. Vital information that is easy has been left out, I do not want everone to make oe and kill themselves.This is a guide on the order to do it, or if your skills lie soewhere else, and you do not know about one area. Emai me if you have any questions
Check out my rogowski coil, it was used in this: http://www.instructables.com/id/Make_a_Rogowski_coil/
The goal of this guide is to show you how to make a railgun. Railgun's offer a green method of projectile acceleration, with minimal byproducts and waste. Railguns use electricity to propel a projectile. because of this, they create no waste.
In addition, the materials used do not pose a ecohazard, while the materials makes it very long life.
Depending on your resources, this project can be free, or up to 1000$.
Do not attempt this unless you have expiereance with high voltage and projectile's, this can be FATAL. You should know how to make one already. Vital information that is easy has been left out, I do not want everone to make oe and kill themselves.This is a guide on the order to do it, or if your skills lie soewhere else, and you do not know about one area. Emai me if you have any questions
Check out my rogowski coil, it was used in this: http://www.instructables.com/id/Make_a_Rogowski_coil/
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Here is a parts list:
1)capacitor bank. I used 18 400v 3900uf capacitor's in parallel. This comes out to 5600 joules. Make sure you stay above 300v, and below 600v.
These are harmless to the enviornment. They are aluminum based.
2)busbars. I used aluminum.
3)3 120uf 300v capacitors.
4) 60A 600v diodes
5)cable's. I used 00 AWG
6)rails. Copper bars here
7) 2"x.5"x12" aluminum.
8)projectiles. Make it close tolerance.
9) A railgun enclosure. I suggest designing your own. It should have a .5" bore, with strong materials.
Mines GREEN! both ways!
Email me if you want a design (ravigaddipatiravi@yahoo.com)
10) misc. support equipment.
11)PVC for injector. Use your own design. Look up "spudgun" for ideas.
1)capacitor bank. I used 18 400v 3900uf capacitor's in parallel. This comes out to 5600 joules. Make sure you stay above 300v, and below 600v.
These are harmless to the enviornment. They are aluminum based.
2)busbars. I used aluminum.
3)3 120uf 300v capacitors.
4) 60A 600v diodes
5)cable's. I used 00 AWG
6)rails. Copper bars here
7) 2"x.5"x12" aluminum.
8)projectiles. Make it close tolerance.
9) A railgun enclosure. I suggest designing your own. It should have a .5" bore, with strong materials.
Mines GREEN! both ways!
Email me if you want a design (ravigaddipatiravi@yahoo.com)
10) misc. support equipment.
11)PVC for injector. Use your own design. Look up "spudgun" for ideas.
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Also, for the voltage tripler, will it constantly triple and charge up the capacitor? or only triple the amount of voltage you give it?
efficient in the first place.I would recommended at least 100 joules( three 450v 470uf), to get some effective muzzle energy.
and when you said 30kj I believe that is how much the energy the capacitor bank produces, and not the railgun. Due the fact that the largest rifle produces around the thousand joule range or a tiny bit higher. not nearly as powerful as 30,000 joules. However i could be wrong, can anybody attest or object?
but the capasitors alone are yes pretty weak.
with the arcing. However you gotta admit having plasma arcs with the projectile looks pretty damn cool.
It is a 400v 2700uF capacitor and even though the listing says one, I emailed the company and they have hundreds!
go to this link ---------> http://www.futureelectronics.com/en/Technologies/Product.aspx?ProductID=ELX401LGN392TEB5MUNITEDCHEMICON7574593
go to this link and you will find all the distributors of these capacitors and I found a few in my city which means I don't have to buy online.
My idea would be something the more portable i can make it, and obviously efficient, even if low powered.
Any opinion? Is this a wrong approach?.
P.S. One of the reasons I want to go with low power is that, although i have some experience with circuits, capacitors and even moderately high voltages, this would be my first rail gun and I don't want to aim high and risk screwing up everything.
The humongous ones can cost like 50 each