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reddevil2576
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I have a new coil gun design I want to build I would like some input on. The first change in design is the coil design. I want to take a solid copper rod and machine it into a coil with one solid band that wraps around a hollow core. You can get a magnetic field up to 40t this way which is twice the capabilities of the best supperconducting coil.
The second design change is how its fired. Instead of having a capacitor bank to charge I want to take a high voltage DC power supply and have a spot right in front of the coil that when a iron material is put there it will arc from the power supply to the projectile to the coil.
The third design is the projectile. It must be half the length of the coil. This way the coil will be firing as the projectile reaches the coils until the projectile is just starting to get to the center of the coil. This way instead of one quick zap the coil will have power to it over 25% of the time its in the coil. Way more time to accelerate the projectile.
With doing this you could put many coils in line and would never have to adjust timing the coils would only fire when theyre supposed to.
What do you think? Will it work?
The second design change is how its fired. Instead of having a capacitor bank to charge I want to take a high voltage DC power supply and have a spot right in front of the coil that when a iron material is put there it will arc from the power supply to the projectile to the coil.
The third design is the projectile. It must be half the length of the coil. This way the coil will be firing as the projectile reaches the coils until the projectile is just starting to get to the center of the coil. This way instead of one quick zap the coil will have power to it over 25% of the time its in the coil. Way more time to accelerate the projectile.
With doing this you could put many coils in line and would never have to adjust timing the coils would only fire when theyre supposed to.
What do you think? Will it work?