[BC] Re: KSDK

[Larry Albert]

At 08:39 PM 1/31/06 -0600, you wrote:



>    When I was in college we had an electrical cannon in the EE dept. that 
> fired eight inch aluminum rings about fifty feet. Basically, it just 
> discharged a capacitor bank through a coil, the aluminum ring being in 
> close proximity to the coil. I guess the eddy current in the ring built 
> up enough of a magnetic field to repulse the field in the coil and send 
> it flying.
>
>    (Dave Hershberger, remember this from EOH?)
>
>Al Wolfe, retired mostly,
>aka K9SI


Were you firing out behind the building along the Boneyard (creek) ???

Albert