From: Chuck Kuecker (ckuecker@mcs.net)
Date: Sun May 30 1999 - 20:22:02 MDT
At 06:20 PM 5/29/99 -0700, Eugene Leitl wrote:
>
>The current design study assumes something mounted on a vehicle, a
>kind of a crowd control thing. A few cases of "accidently" burned
>retina could come handy I can imagine. Of course voltage can also be
>boosted to lethal levels...
>
> > By the way - where is the return path for the stun beam? If it's through
> > the ground and back into the wielder's body, this could become a very
> > unpopular method of defense.
>
>One could use twin beams. No need for that, if mounted on a vehicle.
>
My design was built from two Super Soaker water guns mounted on a common
trigger. We powered the 'beams' with 30 kV pulsed DC - similar to a
standard stun gun. At the best range I got, I was able to reliably light a
neon lamp at three feet before the streams began to lose 'coherency' and
break into droplets. Pretty wimpy.
Another outfit - Jaycor - (they're on the web) has patented a 'water
cannon' that uses a single stream - that's why I stopped development, aside
from the range problem. They also show a person with a GROUNDED SHOE firing
a single stream - that would have been educational if the shooter lifted
that foot while firing...
I have a feeling this particular device will either turn out to be
unworkable, or will be relegated to the same fate as the laser blinding
weapons developed a few years back by the military. Or perhaps this can be
useful in any totalitarian government's bag of tricks - we know who they
are...
Chuck Kuecker
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