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FrozenGate by Avery

Halo Style 2 stage COILGUN






mid-ocean?

lol.. the cheapest ! Brazil is crap.. ofc we should meet in germany or USA! :)

edit: there is a boy here in brazil.. if my memory serves me, he is the director/founder of the Powerlabs.
 
Well...gotta get laid on the beach of California anyway and join a game of roller-hockey as well...so....USA ^^
 
heheheh.. that sure would be.. outstanding. Considering we all love lasers, coilguns, physics etc.
The crap: My english dictation ahahah ! ;)


edit: lasers, coilguns, physics, heavy metal.. oops :p
 
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we could do it over there in Brasil as well. Would be worth the experience...guess its fun. But I (dont) speak on word portugiuese...I would be the gallego...tall and dark blonde.
 
hahahah np. I don't speak portuguese very well too hahah
I said 'the crap: brazil' because here, everything 'new' is expensive, lasers are expensive, travelling to USA or germany is A LOTTA expensive.. hotel is expensive.. I think it should be cheaper if I travelled to USA.. :)
quotation:
Shipping for USA : $20 (envelope, cheaper method)
Travel (plane, forth to usa and back to brazil): around ~$1000
hotel in usa: ~$20 (a crappy one.. maybe?)
hotel in brazil: ~$100
food in usa: ~$1 (fast food)
food in brazil: ~$10 (crappy restaurant, ~$3 fast food lol)
well.. you get it ;)
 
Pffft...dont have to turn every nickel twice xD
Brazil has hot chicks...cool drinks...sunshine...and the people are very kind, from what I have heard.

And some of them even like Electromagnetic Weaponry xD
 
yeah lol.. you're right ;)
anyways, if the meeting should be in brazil, you people could come to my city, where everything you said is trulier than true. ;)
Many people here like anytype of weaponry.. thats a pro and a con ;)

ps: I know trulier isn't a word.
 
Yes, Prototype is definitely in. He's going to build one bad ass coil gun. He's a smart dude and will take his time until he see's the light. These are really dangerous projects, but they are worth the danger involved because when done right they are silent, potentially deadly and a ten on the cool factor. :D

:D


I just finished catching up on this thread, been a bit distracted with school lately. I've got to finish drawing up my plans for the body of the main gun and then decide on whether or not to use a 5mW green for an aiming laser (Like you didn't see an aiming laser coming? ;)) or an old camera and an IR module for a bit more sneakiness. I do know that for now it'll be three stage, I'm aiming for hopefully 500J or so. I got a lead last night on some 50kV capacitors for a good deal, so if that works out who knows what my next project will be? :eg:
 
Hey, Proto! About the aiming laser, if you want something really interesting, you can go for the 20mW 635nm gb (for a 'aiming laser'), a 5mW module (for a 'agressitivity targeting laser') and a IR with some camera for a invisible targeting.. :eg: I thought of this before ;), gives a very professional (but hard :() and cool appearance.

Try to apply this power on the stages:
1st - 45%, 2nd - 35%, 3rd - 20%
and.. whats the energy your caps can store?

(v² . c) / 2,000.000
((caps voltage . caps voltage) . capacitance) / 2,000.000

;)
 
Hey, Proto! About the aiming laser, if you want something really interesting, you can go for the 20mW 635nm gb (for a 'aiming laser'), a 5mW module (for a 'agressitivity targeting laser') and a IR with some camera for a invisible targeting.. :eg: I thought of this before ;), gives a very professional (but hard :() and cool appearance.

I'll probably stick with a 5mW 532 for now.

Leodahsan said:
Try to apply this power on the stages:
1st - 45%, 2nd - 35%, 3rd - 20%
and.. whats the energy your caps can store?

(v² . c) / 2,000.000
((caps voltage . caps voltage) . capacitance) / 2,000.000

;)


According to my math it's 134.75J per cap (each one is 350V @ 2200uF).
 
Right. Thats pretty high, as I seen coilguns with energies down as 30J... very good ;)
you can always put they in series for a better efficiency (700v coilgun)... but you will end up with a harder to build boost driver.
 
I had planned on several caps (maybe four or five) in this design, it's fairly large. The caps have a bit different dimensions than I thought, so the design will have to change anyways. Should look a bit better than the last design.
 
4 seems reasonable. I have 400J of caps (250+150, 2 stages) and it seem fairly 'small'. Maybe you think that a coilgun weighing ~6kg isn't reasonable but, yes it is. ;)
 
6kg isn't too bad. Gotta figure out where I'm going to get the trigger/handle assembly at, I've always been terrible at designing handles for things.
 
^ it depends on the power. :P
You can always buy a toy firearm and modify it (be sure to get a big one tho)...
 


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