• Optional
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      131 month ago

      How much squidpower we talkin’ here

    • @[email protected]
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      71 month ago

      Nah. They need to push the gunpowder in from the “boom” side. We also count the “outs”. Anchor into the cannon is a separate step and cannot just be hung on the outside.

      Boom, gun powder in, stick out, anchor in, stick out.

      5 strokes unless we count a “suck” for cooling the barrel.

      Thoughts?

      • @[email protected]
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        81 month ago

        Now that I think of it (far more than a silly topic actually deserves), I’m convinced it’s a 2-stroke mechanism. Loading and firing are separate stages of the normal operation cycle. Think of that like the two stages of a power cycle of a 2-stroke engine.

        Piston moving up is like cannonball and gunpowder going into the barrel in the loading stage. Gasoline igniting and moving the piston down is like gunpowder burning and propelling the ball out of the barrel.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 month ago

        In a typical 4-stroke engine, there is a process for resetting the engine between power strokes. The energy for the other three strokes (exhaust, intake, compression) comes from inertia in some sort of flywheel.

        The “power stroke” in this system is not the gunpowder. It is the winching in of the cable.

        In this system, the cannon is analogous to the flywheel: It merely resets the system between power strokes.

        • Jolteon
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          31 month ago

          More specifically:

          • Intake is the insertion of the powder and chain into the cannon
          • compression is the firing of the chain.
          • power, the stroke that powers the vehicle, is the pulling of the chain into the winch system.
          • The exhaust phase is removing the chain from the winch system.