Graham Sutherland / PolynomialStyroPyro is back, and he has procured 400 car batteries.
YouTube
Greg Bell@gsuberland a feature-length video including amazing effects and unexpected twists. It was a thing of beauty
@gsuberland I never before realized how much physics abhors switching 100 kiloamps
@gsuberland "I dunno just put two plates together". Physics: "YOU THOUGHT"
@ferrix I wanna see someone build a solid state version (assuming he hasn't; I've not finished watching yet)
@ferrix a huge bank of IGBTs would probably do it, with some active circuitry to balance the gate drives, but I bet there are a ton of demons to chase down.
@gsuberland later he uses the expedient of blowing up an SCT(?) for each run. Unclear that it helps. I think there's plenty of room for improvement on his physical plate smashing setup, but I've never played at that level
F4GRX Sébastien@gsuberland @ferrix you'll need undividual gate drivers. What need to be tuned is possibly the timing of the driving pulses.
Bornach@f4grx @gsuberland @ferrix
He'd be making his own krytron switch next.
What could possibly be wrong with doing that on YouTube?
He'd be making his own krytron switch next.
What could possibly be wrong with doing that on YouTube?
@gsuberland often watchin SP I think "with a little more money this man could really level up" and then I wonder whether it would lose the bootstrappy charm