Arcflash Labs

{{Short description|American electromagnetic accelerator company}}

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| type = Private, C-Corp{{cite report |author=CA Secretary of State |date=August 7, 2023 |title=Corporate Conversion Filing |url=https://bizfileonline.sos.ca.gov/api/report/GetImageByNum/127218231031241004073138252085118220104214038191 |access-date=April 7, 2024}}

| industry = Electronics

| predecessor = Arcflash Labs, LLC

| founded = {{Start date and age|2017|08|01}} in Los Angeles, USA

| founders = David M. Wirth, Jason Murray

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| hq_location_city = Phoenix, Arizona

| hq_location_country = United States

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| products = Electromagnetic Accelerators, Pulsed Power Supplies

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| num_employees = 5

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| website = {{URL|www.arcflashlabs.com}}

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Arcflash Labs, Inc. is an American technology company which specializes in the research and development of high energy pulsed power supplies, and applications for such devices. Its headquarters is located in Phoenix, Arizona and the company was founded in 2017 by David M. Wirth and Jason Murray, both aerospace engineers and former USAF officers. In 2018, the company developed and sold the first commercially viable electromagnetic accelerator, the EMG-01A,{{Cite news |date=July 11, 2018 |title=ArcFlash Labs 3D Printed Gun |newspaper=Firearms News |url=https://www.firearmsnews.com/editorial/tech-startup-launches-3d-printed-coil-gun/77701}} and in 2021 released the GR-1 "Anvil",{{Cite news |date=August 7, 2021 |title=Preorders For This Electromagnetic Rifle Are Being Taken For $3,775 |newspaper=The Drive |url=https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41872/preorders-for-this-electromagnetic-rifle-are-being-taken-for-3775}} the first coilgun with comparable energy to a firearm. Their core innovation was the clamped quasi-resonant (CQR) inverter,{{cite patent|country=US|number=10811995|pubdate=2020-10-20|title=Clamped quasi-resonant step-up inverter|assign1=Arcflash Labs LLC|inventor1-last=Wirth|inventor1-first=David Morgan}} which allowed for the development and rapid charging of hand-held coilguns.

History

In 2010, Jason Murray developed the first truly portable high energy coilgun, the CG-33,{{Cite news |date=September 20, 2010 |title=Welcome To The Future: The First Truly Portable Coil gun |newspaper=Techcrunch |url=https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/20/the-first-truly-portable-coilgun/}} which was followed shortly by his development of a fully automatic handheld coilgun, the CG-42 in 2013.{{Cite news |date=August 26, 2013 |title=The Full-Auto Gauss Gun |newspaper=Military.com |url=https://www.military.com/video/guns/machine-guns/the-full-auto-gauss-gun/2630275680001}} Working independently, David M. Wirth developed the first hand-held railgun, the XPR-1 in 2015.{{Cite news |date=October 19, 2015 |title=Guy creates handheld railgun with a 3D-printer |newspaper=Engadget |url=https://www.engadget.com/2015-10-19-3d-printed-handheld-railgun.html}} Shortly following this innovation, the two inventors partnered to form Arcflash Labs.{{Cite news |date=February 17, 2022 |title=Inventor Of The $3,375 Electromagnetic Rifle Tells Us All About His Creation |newspaper=The Drive |url=https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44326/the-3375-electromagnetic-guns-inventor-tells-us-all-about-his-creation}} Within a year, the founders established the company and offered their first coilgun, the EMG-01A for sale, and in 2020 filed a patent on the power supply that would later become the core of the GR-1. In 2022 they released an iteration on their technology the EMG-02 coilgun which was able to fire with higher energy, and which used commercial drill batteries as a power source.

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Category:Manufacturing companies established in 2017