Category: Electro-Mechanical Launches

Yes the last free video - sign up to see the rest of the series for creating Tilley's Terror, our backyard roller coaster. We will discuss the launch system of our backyard coaster and how error...

As we get started building our roller coaster, we need a sufficient power source. I would like this to be "portable" so plugging it into the wall is an attractive idea. Well, you can't plug a 3 hp...

After a lot of thought and planning, I'm going to do it. After seeing the John Ivers' Blue Flash, I've wanted to make my backyard coaster with an inversion. After looking at a vertical...

So we are reworking the Widow's Revenge to actually work. And we are getting close, very close. In the meantime, I wanted to show you the launch system and the brake needed to hold the cart in...

So I messed up. Well at least for AC driven electromagnets. It turns out that everything I told you in Part 4 flips when we change voltage polarity. This is definitely going to change how our linear...

We've finally got our Linear Synchronous Motor working with 2 phases on our test bench. It has been a long time coming! Now that it is working, we need to answer the question, should we continue? All...