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supak111
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I'm building a coil-gun. I want to use 3 12v lithium car batteries in series to power the gun. Lithium car batteries have enough energy, are light so gun would be smaller & lighter without capacitors, but most importantly I need the gun to be able to rapid fire so I don't have much time for cap charging.
Lets say that I could build an super long barrel with say a 1000 coils/stages on the gun. And each coil is fired by opti switch at the right time, in this hypothetical gun would it be better to power the gun with just batteries mentioned above or still use caps on each stage of the gun?
(again the gun needs to rapid fire so not much time for charging and don't have much room for huge power supply to do so)
If I just use the batteries to power the coilgun, and I have many stages in the gun can I still theoretically get the projectile to any speed by adding more and more stages?
Thanks everyone
Lets say that I could build an super long barrel with say a 1000 coils/stages on the gun. And each coil is fired by opti switch at the right time, in this hypothetical gun would it be better to power the gun with just batteries mentioned above or still use caps on each stage of the gun?
(again the gun needs to rapid fire so not much time for charging and don't have much room for huge power supply to do so)
If I just use the batteries to power the coilgun, and I have many stages in the gun can I still theoretically get the projectile to any speed by adding more and more stages?
Thanks everyone