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GGDT figures confusing me on my pneumatic cannon
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 12:15 am
by g4bandit
I was messing around with some figures in spudfiles and the barrel effect length is confusing me. It seems that having a really long barrel is more effective. anyone know what the best barrel length is for a 1" pneumatically actuated sprinkler valve cannon?
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 12:21 am
by Hotwired
You're asking the wrong question.
What you should be looking for is a muzzle energy value or a maximum size of launcher.
Then you can build to get that.
Unless you use a high pressure low volume chamber you'll have to have a very long, highly inconvenient barrel before the projectile stops accelerating.
What is the norm is to instead use a practical length of barrel and increase pressure and/or volume to get the muzzle energy you want.