Build a Stun Gun

Want to build a stun gun? You would be surprised how simple the electronic circuit is. The basic concept is to take a small voltage source and convert this into a much higher voltage. This is done by pulsing a high gain transformer and storing the high voltage in a capacitor. Click on the schematic below for a detailed look at a nice simple design from Electronics Lab.

How Stuff Works has a nice article that explains why stun guns work so well.

Here are some other stun gun designs that are quite interesting. Remember that stun guns are not legal everywhere…
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9 Comments


  1. That picture is a tazer, not a stun gun.


  2. tazer is a stun gun, don’t confuse it with Star Trek


  3. like the star trek comment, har har


  4. a stungun is not a tazer, a tazer ‘shoots’, and with a stungun you must touch a ‘enemy’ with it.
    the ‘bullet’ of a tazer is connected with something like a iron thread, so you can shoot the bullet out of your tazer while connected with with it.

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