I. Want. One.

[athelind]

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.

-- from Lightning On Demand

Comments

[xylen.livejournal.com]

Nifty! Kind of a TOW missile lighting gun. :)

[taral.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

[taral.livejournal.com]

The question is, could you use an ultraviolet laser to create the plasma channel instead?

[athelind.livejournal.com]

I suspect you'd have to pump a lot more power into the UV laser to ionize the air than you do into the micro-wire to ionize IT, but I don't know.

[taral.livejournal.com]

There was a device a while ago that claimed to use twin UV lasers to create two conductive plasma channels in the air between it and a person, then use high-frequency oscillations to paralyze them. I wonder if that ever happened...

[delako.livejournal.com]

whoaaaaaa *gets sinus discomfort*

[jirris-midvale.livejournal.com]

Eh, only 35 foot range. If it had a bigger range I'd TOTALLY like it.

It's still supercool, abiet inefficent.

[shavastak.livejournal.com]

I used a single-shot, longer-range version of this as a prototype weapon for the ILR in one of my recent Albedo games! It scared the CRAP out of the PCs, and now they're trying to make their own. Heehee.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

It's a whole lot easier with vehicle-sized Magic Fusion Reactors!