Railgun project thread
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:25 pm
With some company sposorship's and some selling of stuff i didn't need, a railgun is going to happen now! Planned specs is as follows:
1 Bank energy of 5.6kJ, i plan to expand it over time
2 railgun constructed of G-11 garolite (strong stuff)
2 feet long, one foot is for injection
Supported by 24 steel bolts (ya stainless would be better)
3 .5" square bore
4 60 PSI triggered burst disc injection (120 PSI once i get a decent pump)
5 velocity measurment via physical projectile detection and a LM339 circuit to interface to a PC
6 Testing of parrallel and series agumentation
I plan to make a rogowski coil to measure peak currents. Rest of the capacitors should come any day now, along with the order from mcmaster (alu bus bars, corrosion inhibitor, bolts, rails) Rails will be 1/8" thick 3/4" wide copper, 1 ft long.
BTW, this will look remarkably similar to powerlabs railgun, but i was planning this long before i saw his site, believe it or not =p
More updates to come (and pics)! (as i remeber stuff....)
Supersonic speeds are expected after most of the reasearch.
1 Bank energy of 5.6kJ, i plan to expand it over time
2 railgun constructed of G-11 garolite (strong stuff)
2 feet long, one foot is for injection
Supported by 24 steel bolts (ya stainless would be better)
3 .5" square bore
4 60 PSI triggered burst disc injection (120 PSI once i get a decent pump)
5 velocity measurment via physical projectile detection and a LM339 circuit to interface to a PC
6 Testing of parrallel and series agumentation
I plan to make a rogowski coil to measure peak currents. Rest of the capacitors should come any day now, along with the order from mcmaster (alu bus bars, corrosion inhibitor, bolts, rails) Rails will be 1/8" thick 3/4" wide copper, 1 ft long.
BTW, this will look remarkably similar to powerlabs railgun, but i was planning this long before i saw his site, believe it or not =p
More updates to come (and pics)! (as i remeber stuff....)
Supersonic speeds are expected after most of the reasearch.