Honey, there's a burglar, time to fire up the Taser Cannon..

• the Bear

  2 May 05, 16:58

  i thought of building a Tesla Coil and putting it in my lawn to chase away the crows and mynahs that come and make a lot of noise... it would also act as a spectacular burglar deterrent... however... THIS!! THIS!!
  
  how do i get one??
  
  110,000 volt Taser Cannon
  
  
  
  The Taser Cannon can direct a 15,000 Ampere plasma channel through the air along a straight trajectory, at grounded targets up to 35 ft downrange.
  
  The cannon consists of 30 high pressure pneumatic dart stations, each capable of launching a tapered aluminum sabot that trails a thin 'seed wire' 0.008 inches in diameter.
  
  Cannon tilt and pan is pneumatic, and a sighting laser is located inside the cannon head. When a launched sabot contacts the target, the Marx-configured capacitor bank automatically fires and erects the bank to 110,000 volts, igniting a plasma channel along the vaporized seed wire. The plasma channel quickly intensifies, magnetically confined in the air by the Lorentz forces of its own current.
  
  Damage to the target can vary widely. Most spectators experience some degree of sinus discomfort after several firings, due to the high brissance of the plasma explosion.
  
  The capacitor bank is currently disassembled, and newer capacitors are being added to increase the bank energy to 250 kilojoules, and the range to 50 feet.
  
  
  
  imagine turning the burglar into a pile of cinders
  
  (source: Lightning on Demand)
• Kuali Baba

  2 May 05, 18:17

  I'm thinking of getting one too. Someone tried to steal my bicycle while I was in camp. Luckily the neighbour's dog alerted Mum.
• deathscythe99

  2 May 05, 18:18

  
  
  That's overkill!
  
  
• care bear

  2 May 05, 19:34

  men and theor toys!!!
• the Bear

  2 May 05, 19:35

  aww... c'mon... won't you feel a lot safer at home if you had one of those parked on your lawn?
  
  

  Originally posted by care bear:

  men and theor toys!!!

• chunyong

  2 May 05, 19:36

  need so big and so many stuff ? just get from from DSO, sling over ur shoulder with 3 red-dots for aiming. Predator's Plasma Caster
• the Bear

  2 May 05, 19:39

  because to generate enough plasma to knock someone off their feet, you're gonna need a LOT of energy...
  
  that kind of energy is available in what you see in the picture
  
  okay.. this Taser Cannon is damned difficult to build.. maybe i'll go back to dreaming of a 6-ft Tesla Coil again
  
  

  Originally posted by chunyong:

  need so big and so many stuff ? just get from from DSO, sling over ur shoulder with 3 red-dots for aiming. Predator's Plasma Caster

• fudgester

  2 May 05, 19:40

  Is it legal in Singapore? Dun think so.....
• care bear

  2 May 05, 19:41

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  aww... c'mon... won't you feel a lot safer at home if you had one of those parked on your lawn?
  
  

  I guess so....but a half fried corpse greeting you on the lawn first thing in the morning when you open the door to pick up the papers... unless the Honey wants to clear the corpse before I wake up
• the Bear

  2 May 05, 19:42

  i wonder if anyone is capable of building one in Singapore
  
  oh.. about tesla coils, the last time i saw one was in the Science Centre... less than a year ago... i was impressed
  
  

  Originally posted by fudgester:

  Is it legal in Singapore? Dun think so.....

• the Bear

  2 May 05, 19:45

  well, if one has the $$$ to build this thing, they can have a contract with the local cleaners and morticians to clean up the mess
  
  

  Originally posted by care bear:

  I guess so....but a half fried corpse greeting you on the lawn first thing in the morning when you open the door to pick up the papers... unless the Honey wants to clear the corpse before I wake up

• LazerLordz

  2 May 05, 20:15

  Originally posted by fudgester:

  Is it legal in Singapore? Dun think so.....

  It's not a weapon per se..
  
  But hell yeah, gimme one of those babies
• Rhonda

  3 May 05, 02:19

  Public Advisory from your Friendly Nurse :
  
  Should any of you decide to fix up a Taser Cannon on your property, please make sure that you fry those who trespass to a crisp so that there's no need for us to get busy fixing them up.
  
  Thank you for being considerate to your busy and caring nurses!
  
  
• ditzy

  3 May 05, 02:21

  Great! But how do I reload?
• the Bear

  3 May 05, 02:34

  replace discharged capacitors, seed wire and dart
  
  

  Originally posted by ditzy:

  Great! But how do I reload?

• aRcTiC_sTaR

  3 May 05, 02:50

  So this thing won't kill?
• the Bear

  3 May 05, 09:23

  dunno if the mutha-effer will actually kill anyone but a plasma shot at about 110,000 volts is pretty impressive, i have to say
  
  and oh.. for those who do not know what a tesla coil is, here's a graphic representation of one at work
  
  
  
  i've been in awe of these things from time immemorial and Nicola Tesla is my hero
• choco B

  3 May 05, 09:25

  I'd be disappointed if it doesn't
  
  

  Originally posted by aRcTiC_sTaR:

  So this thing won't kill?

• the Bear

  3 May 05, 09:31

  you should have a look into the site.. the nutters are trying to make a couple of huge tesla coil towers so that people can be inside the electrodes in an observation deck when it's turned on to watch the lightning...
  
  i think i have a new bunch of heroes
  
  

  Originally posted by choco B:

  I'd be disappointed if it doesn't
  
  

• neuros

  3 May 05, 09:32

  Originally posted by choco B:

  I'd be disappointed if it doesn't
  
  

  
• choco B

  3 May 05, 09:59

  
  imagine turning the burglar into a pile of cinders
  
  (source: Lightning on Demand)[/b]

  Heh you know what I find funniest about this picture
  
  The Beware: Falling Man sign on the side.
  
  Just in case some poor dude gets blasted off the top cos of a rogue spark, and falls on another poor dude below?
  
  That's a huge tank for a comparatively small-ish gun
• choco B

  3 May 05, 10:01

  That would be breathtaking Even without the carnage
  
  But i think it can't beat going to a plain somewhere to watch thunderstorms. The open space and wind in your hair...
  
  Still, the towers would be safer. And you're guaranteed a light show
  
  

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  you should have a look into the site.. the nutters are trying to make a couple of huge tesla coil towers so that people can be inside the electrodes in an observation deck when it's turned on to watch the lightning...
  
  i think i have a new bunch of heroes

• the Bear

  3 May 05, 10:04

  ahhh.. those are capacitors... must be really something else to be able to store that much charge in them
  
  still think these guys are heroic nutcases to want to build something like this:
  
  
  
  where the plan of each electrode is like this:
  
  
  
  where people can watch the lightning show in the observation deck
• Kenashi

  4 May 05, 16:35

  Originally posted by Rhonda:

  Public Advisory from your Friendly Nurse :
  
  Should any of you decide to fix up a Taser Cannon on your property, please make sure that you fry those who trespass to a crisp so that there's no need for us to get busy fixing them up.
  
  Thank you for being considerate to your busy and caring nurses!