Recent content by jmaniglia

Well, now i will take that as there is not magic box to decrease ESR. NNNNNOOOOO! And i was hoping for an easy and cheap solution. =( Never works that way

Thank you waht. I do understand that. And my system is one that already has around 20 to 30 capacitors in series and in parallel. series to decrease voltage (and sadly increase overall resistance) across a single capacitor, and parallel to rid myself of ESR. But I've run into a block. And I...

Just a little chime in, when you use your sensor to detect the distance to the object make sure that you use a "Schmidt Trigger" to simplify your circuit. A schmidth trigger is an Op-Amp IC that 'swtches on' and 'switches off' more realistically, rather than oscillating a certain point. Ex...

And sorry. to clarify, I'm attempting to get an ESR of LESS than 1 milli-ohm. I know, very lofty...

Exactly. Thank you for the ideas my friend, but that's why I've included decreasing the ESR with a single capacitor, since I have been successful on paper making a circuit with a low enough ESR, I've been unsuccessful in doing it within the budget...since to triple the voltage rating while...

I have looked into the large car audio systems. The problem with those is that their operating voltage, for inexpensive ones, is far too low. I'm looking at 1-2 kV for these babies! Most of the caps I'm looking at have a rating of 450-630 V

...F = I LxB where L and B are vectors and where the x represent a vector multiplication. B is the magnetic field and L the length of the projectile in which the current pass. Finally I is the current in amp. You can also calculate the energy given to the projectile by this force : Ek = F...

Please don't take anything I say as an insult, I'm not sure of what you have tried to do to fix the situation. Possible problems (that I can see): - If the capacitors are electrolytic and polar, than the fuses could be installed to prevent the capacitors from being damaged when seeing a...

Hey all, I'm and Aerospace undergrad at Cal Poly working on my senior project, which has turned out to be more of a EE project than anything else. Anyways, I'm building a capacitor bank for the firing of an electromagnetic rail gun. I'm attempting to make a PFN (pulse forming network)...