 Circular Jacobs ladder thing?
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Electroholic
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Joined: Fri Feb 17 2006, 02:01AM
Location: Esbjerg Denmark
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Nik wrote ...
Thank you for that link, i've been looking for ages. Ryan it has to be DC, the arc is pushed along in the same way as a rail gun projectile. As the arc reaches the end of the loop and the 2 wires end the arc jumps off the tips of the wires and back onto the beginning of the loop.
DC? think again.
And who said rail guns have to be DC?
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Nik
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Well it's titled "Lichtbogen 3 KV / 500A DC Hochspannung - Feuerrad" And unless DC means something other then Direct Current then yes, it was a DC power supply. And the lorenz force that is the basis of a rail gun's operation says that they are usually DC.
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Dalus
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Might be an idea to try this the DIY way. Build a strike circuit like in a arc welder then discharge a few kJ trough the plasma channel with a large capacitor bank.
Too bad I don't have the time to try 
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