{"id":94467,"date":"2019-08-05T11:23:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T18:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/shocking-invention-a-tesla-lightning-gun"},"modified":"2019-08-05T11:23:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T18:23:26","slug":"shocking-invention-a-tesla-lightning-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/shocking-invention-a-tesla-lightning-gun","title":{"rendered":"Shocking invention: A Tesla lightning gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h5jBjso6l6I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If 150,000 volt stun guns aren\u2019t enough to deter criminals, law enforcement might want to give Rob Flickenger a buzz.<\/p>\n<p>The IT expert, who also has a bit of a reputation as a DIY mad-scientist, has a shocking new invention: a real-life lightning gun. Built over a period of at least 10 months, the zapper is the end result of combining the aim-and-shoot functionality of an aluminum-encased Nerf gun with the electrical power supplied by an 18V drill battery.<\/p>\n<p>The gun, which some of you might have guessed, is essentially a weaponized version of a Spark Gap Tesla Coil. To generate a high-voltage discharge, Flickenger designed a system that channeled the power drill\u2019s 18V of power into a ZVS driver circuit, which in turn drives a flyback transformer, thereby raising the voltage to about 20,000V. All of this is admitted pretty technical, so if you want a detailed explanation of how it works, check out his site <a href=\"http:\/\/hackerfriendly.com\/the-tesla-gun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Hackerfriendly.com\">Hackerfriendly.com<\/a><\/a>, where he goes through the finer points of the technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If 150,000 volt stun guns aren\u2019t enough to deter criminals, law enforcement might want to give Rob Flickenger a buzz. The IT expert, who also has a bit of a reputation as a DIY mad-scientist, has a shocking new invention: a real-life lightning gun. Built over a period of at least 10 months, the zapper [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-law-enforcement","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}