The CoilMaster Mark1 Coil Gun has been upgraded to Mark 1.5, The fire rate is highly increased to roughly 1 shot per second. Now 2 x 1000W halogen tubes are used as charge resistor.
The schematic has been altered to allow a higher charge current flow.
Due to the many questions I get regarding coil gun designs, I decided to create this Coil Gun design guide for starters. This guide is mostly about single stage coil guns and will be under constant change. Questions and answers will be placed here and comments/suggestions are welcome.
Another project with a lazy background. Every time I have to put the cars or my bike inside our barn, it highly annoys me I have to get out of the car, walk to the door, find out it is locked (50/50 chance), get back to the car, turn it off to get the keys, open the door, start the car and then drive it inside. Also the doors are very heavy, and require a lot of force to open. Now it opens and closes with the push of a button.
A refurbishing project. I got this ancient high frequency healing device from my father. It originates from around 1930, and it operates with some kind of induction coil.
Pretty funny how they used to think that electric shocks would be good for you, and that the inhalation of large quantities of ozone would be healthy?
A new composition of the primary coil for a Double Resonance Solid State TeslaCoil (DRSSTC). It is a combination of wire and capacitors. By making the coil like this you get rid of all the parasitic inductions of the capacitor bank, it reduces wire length and saves a lot of space. Calculating the resonance frequency also becomes much easier.
I hereby dub this coil configuration: The Eindhoven Primary.
A small TeslaCoil fully made of acrylic plastic. The cool thing about this is that every part is transparent. This coil is driven by the power supply of my large DC Teslacoil. Total height 44cm, max output voltage +- 380.000 Volts (57cm arc length).
A speedometer specially designed for coilgun projectiles! To determine the speed of coilgun projectiles while experimenting, I usually counted the frames of my high speed camera while filming the projectile.
Now using 2 optical sensors and a microcontroller I can calculate the velocity and kinetic energy of the projectile and read it directly on the display. A large improvement!
