05-19-2016, 04:24 AM
(05-19-2016, 03:43 AM)OdinYggd Wrote:The effects of barrel and coil heat are decreased due to having multiple barrels and coils, and with superconductors there's also minimal resistance in the internal electrical mechanisms, allowing the high currents to flow with a very low resistance. I could see it firing at 3 rounds a second for maximum velocity. Maybe give it a selective fire, as Null mentioned? Lower rate of fire for higher armored targets and vice versa.(05-19-2016, 01:30 AM)kawaiiChiimera Wrote: Yeah yeah I know. At 1000 revs/m with three barrels it can fire at 3000 rounds per minute max.
I don't own excel. ;(
Also I was wrong on the "energy use increases exponentially with rate of fire" part. I meant to say velocity.
There's lots of alternatives to Excel itself. I usually use LibreOffice myself, which is open source software and completely free as such while still being able to do almost everything that Microsoft Office does. As long as you don't want the cloud garbage that they are shipping nowdays.
Energy usage probably would increase with rate of fire, but higher firing rates would actually give a lower velocity. Has to do with the effects of power draw and component heating causing the efficiency of the driver circuitry to decrease. Not only that, but that heating effect has a tendency to run away- the losses will increase faster and faster until a component in the drive melts and releases its magic smoke in the middle of a shootout.
You would achieve peak muzzle velocity firing one shot at a time, and giving the driver circuit sufficient time to recharge itself and cool down in between shots. This would give the greatest efficiency of energy transfer, as well as being the least demanding on the power supply and materials.
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Ew. No. That looks ridiculous and despite being male makes my back hurt through probably the same weird process that makes me feel embarassed when a character on a tv show is embarassed.