Re: Plasmagun/railgun for Stelarate
Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2017 12:24 pm
For the area around the electrodes only charged air ions and free electrons will be the only things that will experience the force, this force will only effect the plasma that is contained in the arc.
But the question is there any data or formula that predict the thickness of the arc at different gas pressures and current?
Type of off topic but 12v,1a is enough to produce noticeable result with salt water, because the force is over the volume, the reason why I asked the question is that the volume of a arc at atm is small, hence I want to see the ballpark to aim for.
To help study it's effect at atm pressure, I was going to use a chemical reaction to raise the tempture up to 2000-3000K and instead of a solid state switch, send the 1% plasma charge density as a ball,blob,pulse or lump pass the sparkgaps
But the question is there any data or formula that predict the thickness of the arc at different gas pressures and current?
Type of off topic but 12v,1a is enough to produce noticeable result with salt water, because the force is over the volume, the reason why I asked the question is that the volume of a arc at atm is small, hence I want to see the ballpark to aim for.
To help study it's effect at atm pressure, I was going to use a chemical reaction to raise the tempture up to 2000-3000K and instead of a solid state switch, send the 1% plasma charge density as a ball,blob,pulse or lump pass the sparkgaps