User:Jchism4804/ENES-100/Project 2

My First Task
Learn about what the last team did in more detail and research more into magnetic coils.

Week1 Narrative
I researched the different theory's in-which allowed the overall magnetization of coils and allow them to be used in our application. Once I had started the research my instructor had given the idea of using a capacitor bank system. This will allow for an instantaneous release of the voltage needed for a super strong short burst magnet.

My Second task
Gather the supplies needed for the basic coil mechanism and start researching the different capacitor types and find what is needed for my needs.

Week2 Narrative
I had gathered the supplies researched capacitor's rating systems and found I needed the the just right combination of voltage and farad rating. There were so many that didn't meet my needs, but I have narrowed it down to 2 separate types. The first type is a 250V with a lower farad rate and the other is 25V with about 3 X the farad rating as the 250V capacitor.

My Third task
Wait on my team members to reconvene and start our build for a simple testing of our capacitor bank systems.

Week3 Narrative
SPRING BREAK

My Fourth task
See Task 3

Week4 Narrative
This week I made sparks fly!! The way I stared this was to make a simple capacitor bank of 10 25V capacitors hooked up in series format. Then I learned that capacitors only charge up to what the voltage of the power source is thus I used a 0-30v charging unit to charge the capacitors to approximately 22 volts and waited for them to become charged. Once charged I removed the wires from the charging unit and then let the sparks happen and after repeating the fun I then turned my attention to seeing if i could make a very crude electromagnet....which failed despite the proper methods this was easily due to the amount of current and the amount of wire I had to work with at that time.

Also I have a scalable wiring diagram for a working coil-gun.