Pressure inside a fluorescent lamp kept at 0.003 atmospheres and have the problem of excessive conductivity?
Regardless of how hard you try to force the projectile inside the rails there will always be arcing according to research done by Sam Barro.
http://www.powerlabs.org/emguns.html"...
But the process of getting the gas hot enough to generate a plasma is not, to make a low resistance plasma it needs to be at a very low pressure AND room pressure plasmas have the unwanted factor of melting the rails acting some what like a spot welder.
Yes I do recall buying some of this for my cooling system after I rusted out my thermostat and its housing... :P
I don't know why I didn't think of that earlier!
And in respects to galinstan I can't find any places to buy it, but I don't think it would be cheap. Especially adding in the...
Hey all!
I've return back to my year 12 assignment, the railgun. I got a working model back then, but unfortunately didn't write up a good report. I have the videos on youtube if anyone is interested.
The reason for the conductive liquids is because I want to tackle the arcing issue.
I...