New r.c. launching system!!!


sethman said:
For your idea to work, the rails would have to be very good conductors. "Steel is not a good conductor".  Also it would be mighty expensive, much more expensive than Lims, with all that electricity constantly running but it could work.
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You could have coils coming out of the running Rails that slightly touch againt the wheels, which could have a some kinda conductor on them. Would that work ?


Comatose said:
Ummm, there is no such thing as "positive electricity" or "negative electricity" and even if there were (i assume you mean like there are north and south poles on a magnet) that would cause the train to be attracted to the track, not to move. Unless you meant like a railgun. Railgun tech would work, but would require INCREDIBLE amounts of juice to do (orders of magnitude more than a lim launch) for no benefit unless you need to be moving at thousands of meters per second. Sorry. Now, the "Giant Rubber Band launch"...

Railgun tech=S:TE :)

TrBiggar, somewhere on that one Schwartzkoft site there are schematics for the 3-rail coaster. I don't know the link, but it's the site thats also in another language, German perhaps? 
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