Watch a 400V home-made railgun fire its first slug

Kevin Lancaster · Nov 10, 2015

ScottulusMaximus · Nov 10, 2015

That video terrified me... 400V capacitors feeding into exposed aluminium flat bars, hellz no!

AstroTurf · Nov 10, 2015

Want to see what it does to a target

konfab · Nov 10, 2015

AstroTurf said:
Want to see what it does to a target

Nothing good.

The_Unbeliever · Nov 10, 2015

Bring on the Zentraedi, Borg, Terminators, and assorted nasties!

thehuman · Nov 10, 2015

I would have rather charge those caps with a home made switch mode psu

Tman* · Nov 10, 2015

Wow. cool project, but not $50,000 cool.

c3n0byt3 · Nov 11, 2015

The_Assimilator · Nov 11, 2015

AstroTurf said:
Want to see what it does to a target

Solarion · Nov 11, 2015

Need to go bigger.

Hook it up to the Eiffel Tower and fire molten cannon balls at Russia. I mean ****, if you gonna do it then think big.

Space_Chief · Nov 11, 2015

Meh, not nearly as powerful as Misaka's.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ · Nov 11, 2015

Blu82 · Feb 9, 2022

Solarion · Feb 9, 2022

USDoD has one of these bad boys. The round hits the target at something ridiculous like mach 7.