coilgun blueprints

Step 5 Finishing touches and Testing

Before you close up the gun, you may want/need to add some finishing touches. Here are a few of the ones we did:
-a lens from the camera to make the LED from the circuit appear larger when the capacitors charged
-a cover to go over the big, bare spot on the top of our gun
-a projectile holder
-test prongs to make sure the gun was charging (recommended)

Comments

[tazerboy]

hmm, i suppose that i wasn't very powerful since it only had one capacitor. You
might want to add a couple more of those, say at least 4 of the same caps.And get a better switching device like an scr.

[eneergcam]

Nah dude, it was a big capacitor, and it packed a punch

[Iwantbigboom]

but you said to somebody that the capacitor is small and now your saying its big makes no sense.BIG or small.

[eneergcam]

Its all relative, compared to the camera circuit capacitors if very large, but compared to other larger ones, its small.

[tazerboy]

plz tell me the voltage and capacity

[eneergcam]

450 volts and 1500 MicroFarads