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From: yaadmin@levels.sait.edu.au
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.pyrotechnics
Subject: Re: How to make a RAIL GUN?
Message-ID: <16070.27f1ca0d@levels.sait.edu.au>
Date: 28 Mar 91 01:18:45 GMT
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In article <27EE910A.10011@ics.uci.edu>, alleyne@olympus.ics.uci.edu (Brian Derek Alleyne) writes:
> Use the same principle as a linear accelerator. I once shot a bb about
> fifty feet using a tube and 8 coils.
>
>
>
>  c  c   c     c        c            c                 c
> -=--=--==----===------===----------===---------------===--
> -=--=--==----===------===----------===---------------===--
>  c  c   c     c        c            c                 c
>  1  2   3     4        5            6                 7
>
> c = coil wound with thick copper wire
>
> = = Ferrite or soft iron ring around which the coil is wound
>         to increase the magnetic field.
>
> Each coil from left to right is energized in sequence, and should
> be timed to turn off as the projectile reaches it.
>
>  (Rest of article deleted)

This looks like it'd be fun to make...:-)
How about some dimensions?

i.e Tube diameter/length
    Coil diameter/#turns
    Voltages/currents
    Driving circuitry

Muchos Gracias in advance
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