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here are some pictures of my first coilgunhttp://img3.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=img3514f.jpg it can shoot the projectile about 10 feet but i am going to add more capacitors to it soon tell me what you think of it
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jaysun92 wrote ...
It has a capacitor bank of 1260uf 330v photoflash capacitors now
You can never have too many That's roughly 68.607J. I'm going to estimate that's around 10 camera capacitors? Isn't a bad design, I hand-crafted a pistol out of sheet metal at Home Depot in the ducting area (8X11") and used glue. I also used camera capacitors, Later got 76.7J (400V 470uf) ones.. 10 of them, And now I have a 200J photoflash bank. Over 60 in parallel :)
Be happy to see more pictures....power source...etc.. I use to use 4AA (parallel) and 8 mini-camera circuits in parallel. It speeds it up A LOT
PLEASE CHECK YOUR BOARD IS AS HE SAYS. You NEED the Diode, Transistor, and LED in the same corner. If you have spare circuits, i recommend this. You create less resistance and it charges over 3X faster. If you can manage to do the hack, Please do it!
And with this one, It involves taking it all apart and .. yeah.
JUST MAKE SURE IT'S A "FIVE" PIN TRANSFORMER FIRST! Thanks
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First Coilgun
That's roughly 68.607J. I'm going to estimate that's around 10 camera capacitors? Isn't a bad design, I hand-crafted a pistol out of sheet metal at Home Depot in the ducting area (8X11") and used glue. I also used camera capacitors, Later got 76.7J (400V 470uf) ones.. 10 of them, And now I have a 200J photoflash bank. Over 60 in parallel :)
