I’m planning on building a small portable coil gun (Packed inside a pellet gun) powered by a bunch of crappy little 330v 120uf photoflash capacitors, and I’m looking for someone advice so I don’t blow my self up
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My power source is going to be a bunch of AA batteries, or (2) 6v, or a 12v if I can find a small lightweight one that is rechargeable (I also want to be able use a 18.5V laptop power source and just plug my gun up via the wall so I don’t blow a ton of money on batteries) Anyways either the batteries or the laptop charger will plug into an inverter that I kinda stole from my moms car, she thought it was broken but it was just a blown fuse. This is the inverter (https://www.electronicexpress.com/product?prod_id=4612) Input: 10.7-15.5vdc 70watts – Output 110/120vac. Then I want to use a voltage multiplier to increase the 120vac to 280-330v dc using a rectifier after to charge the caps. Also, I was planning on running a small fan to keep everything cool inside my gun enclosure.
My questions are:
1. Will this even work?
2. Which is the best method for powering up the gun AA’s, 6v’s or a 12v? and will the inverter drain to much out of the batteries?
3. Can I use a voltage multiplier to increase the 120vac? and how? Or should I step the voltage up with a transformer?
4. Can I use a rectifier to change the AC to dc at that high of a voltage?
5. Can I separate some of the output voltage of the inverter to power some of the output voltage of the inverter to power my fan, and maybe
an optical trigger device for a second stage?
I’m not that experienced in electronics as you can tell, and I know this is a dangerous build
. But any help would be greatly appreciated, I absolutely love how coil guns work and I’m determined to build one Sooo please help me!!!
My power source is going to be a bunch of AA batteries, or (2) 6v, or a 12v if I can find a small lightweight one that is rechargeable (I also want to be able use a 18.5V laptop power source and just plug my gun up via the wall so I don’t blow a ton of money on batteries) Anyways either the batteries or the laptop charger will plug into an inverter that I kinda stole from my moms car, she thought it was broken but it was just a blown fuse. This is the inverter (https://www.electronicexpress.com/product?prod_id=4612) Input: 10.7-15.5vdc 70watts – Output 110/120vac. Then I want to use a voltage multiplier to increase the 120vac to 280-330v dc using a rectifier after to charge the caps. Also, I was planning on running a small fan to keep everything cool inside my gun enclosure.
My questions are:
1. Will this even work?
2. Which is the best method for powering up the gun AA’s, 6v’s or a 12v? and will the inverter drain to much out of the batteries?
3. Can I use a voltage multiplier to increase the 120vac? and how? Or should I step the voltage up with a transformer?
4. Can I use a rectifier to change the AC to dc at that high of a voltage?
5. Can I separate some of the output voltage of the inverter to power some of the output voltage of the inverter to power my fan, and maybe
I’m not that experienced in electronics as you can tell, and I know this is a dangerous build
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