#garfield Logs

Nov 16 2014

15:18 TELunus rue_house: the trick you mention still doesn't allow me to know how much current I can draw from a capacitor. Obviously it can't be more than the voltage of the capacitor devided by the resistance of the leads, but I don't think lead resistance is usually one of the numbers you get when you're buying a cap.
19:15 rue_shop2 measure the current in coulombs/sec
19:16 rue_shop2 not lead resistance, plate resistance
19:16 rue_shop2 TELunus, what information are you looking for?
19:16 rue_shop2 was it the problem I posted?
19:23 TELunus No, it's for a railgun.
19:24 TELunus Railgun's are high current, and but if you manage to get low friction and resistance they don't need high voltage.
19:25 TELunus Baisically if the friction is low you don't need as much current, and if the resistance is low you don't need as much voltage to drive that current.
21:57 rue_more and if it turns out like mine did you watch a bearing hop and weld itself to the rails...