How Many Joules Through The Coil?
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Mike Kirney
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How Many Joules Through The Coil?
So I have all this black powder and I have been thinking about building a small rocket with some. I would like to create an electical ignition system using perhaps a battery, a capacitor, and some sort of resistance-type heating element. Has anybody built something like this?
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re: How Many Joules Through The Coil?
Estes has...minus the capacitor.
BP is tough to make into a rocket motor. It needs to be very finely ground and packed at a high pressure. All of this makes it rather dangerous to do. Shocks aren't good for it, it can ignite. Once the motor is made there is a high likelihood that it'll have voids in the grain and it will CATO.
If you store the motor, watch for temperature cycling, it can crack the grain.
BP is tough to make into a rocket motor. It needs to be very finely ground and packed at a high pressure. All of this makes it rather dangerous to do. Shocks aren't good for it, it can ignite. Once the motor is made there is a high likelihood that it'll have voids in the grain and it will CATO.
If you store the motor, watch for temperature cycling, it can crack the grain.