Electromagnetic Accelerator Improvements Part I - Gauss Cannon test rig

2021-02-12

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In this video I experiment with different improvements to electromagnet coils and build a test fixture to measure my results and compare them to magnetic finite element simulations.

Ultimately, i measured an efficiency increase of 51% on a coil that was covered in a shell of ferrous material acting as a magnetic flux guide.

The magnetic simulation software i use is called FEMM 4.2 and it's free to download: https://www.femm.info/wiki/HomePage

Part II:

/youtube/video/uNbL3tRZeMQ

Music:

Heatley Bros. - Ocean Palance

Serge Pavkin - Fractal

Serge Pavkin - Tech