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Journal m50d's Journal: Making progress 1

Looks like I'm making some progress with my linear magnetic accelerator. First off I've discovered that you can put some little caps in series to pretend they're a higher voltage one. So I'm going to have 3 banks of 25 capacitors each, in series, for a total operational voltage of about 300v, capacitance just over 8mf. Which is pretty much as good as I'd been hoping for. I have some thick copper sheets to make the connections. I'm still waiting on the copper pipes to make the rails and the liquid nitrogen to cool them, but I'm getting there. I now need to accquire some compensating resistors so that I don't blow all my caps up when one goes, but other than that things are looking good.
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