Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 4 Episode: 24 Title: The Mind's Eye wrote: DATA: Energy flow is within normal parameters, from the pre-fire chamber to the emission aperture.
LAFORGE: Rapid nadion pulse, right on target. Beam control assembly, safety interlock, both checked out. Beam width intensity controls also responding correctly.
DATA: Energy cell usage remains constant at one point oh five megajoules per second. Curious. The efficiency reading on the discharge crystal is well above Starfleet specifications.
Round Fired: 4.7 Mega joule PulseFranchise: Star Trek Series: Deep Space Nine Season: 4 Episode: 14 Title: Return To Grace wrote: KIRA: This is a standard issue, Cardassian phase-disruptor rifle. It has a four point seven megajoule power capacity, three millisecond recharge two beam settings.
ZIYAL: How do you know so much about Cardassian weapons?
KIRA: We captured a lot of them during the occupation. It's a good weapon, solid, simple. You can drag it through the mud and it'll still fire. Now this. (Federation phaser rifle.) This is an entirely different animal. Federation standard issue. It's a little less powerful, but it's got a more options. Sixteen beam settings. Fully autonomous recharge, multiple target acquisition, gyro stabilised, the works. It's a little more complicated, so it's not as good a field weapon. Too many things can go wrong with it.
ZIYAL: I can see why my father likes having you around.
KIRA: I think you should stick with the Cardassian rifle. It's smaller, easier to use, and if we get boarded I don't want you to have to think too much about the weapon you're using.
Rate of Fire: 20,000 Rounds Per-Minute
Output: 1566.66667 Megawatts or roughly 1.6 Gigawatts
Round Fired: 500 Gigajoule PulseFranchise: Star Trek Series: Enterprise Season: 01 Episode: 12 Title: Silent Enemy wrote: REED: This, ladies and gentlemen is a phase-modulated energy weapon. It's rated for a maximum power output of five hundred gigajoules. Enterprise was designed to carry three of them. We have one, and it's only a prototype.
Rate of Fire: Unstated, but high enough to give the illusion of being a beam
Low End
I will assume 4500 rounds a minute like the Phalanx CIWS as that barely appears as a beam when firing tracers at night to me
High End End
I will assume the 20,000 rounds a minute like the Type-3 Phaser
Output:
Low End
4500*500=2250000
2250000/60=37500
37500 Gigawatts or 37.5 Terawatts
High End
200000*500=100000000
100000000/60=1666666.67
1666666.67 Gigawatts or about 1.7 Petawatts
Round Fired: 5000 Gigajoule PulseFranchise: Star Trek Series: Enterprise Season: 01 Episode: 12 Title: Silent Enemy wrote: REED: Check the cannons. Be careful down there. The blast yield was ten times what we expected.
ARCHER [OC]: What happened?
REED: Something overloaded the phase modulators.
Rate of Fire: Unstated, but high enough to give the illusion of being a beam
Low End
I will assume 4500 rounds a minute like the Phalanx CIWS as that barely appears as a beam when firing tracers at night to me
High End End
I will assume the 20,000 rounds a minute like the Type-3 Phaser
Output:
Low End
4500*500*10=22500000
22500000/60=375000
375000 Gigawatts or 375 Terawatts
High End
200000*500*10=1000000000
1000000000/60=16666666.7
16666666.7 Gigawatts or about 16.7 Petawatts
Round Fired: 900 Gigajoule PulseFranchise: Star Trek Series: Enterprise Season: 02 Episode: 20 Title: Horizon wrote: TRAVIS: I can tie the plasma turrets directly into the impulse engines. Lieutenant Reed did that and it increased our yield by eighty percent.
Rate of Fire: Unstated, but high enough to give the illusion of being a beam
Low End
I will assume 4500 rounds a minute like the Phalanx CIWS as that barely appears as a beam when firing tracers at night to me
High End End
I will assume the 20,000 rounds a minute like the Type-3 Phaser
Output:
Low End
4500*900=4050000
4050000/60=67500
67500 Gigawatts or 67.5 Terawatts
High End
200000*900=180000000
180000000/60=3000000
3000000 Gigawatts or 3000 terawatts or 3 Petawatts
Since no asteroid size is given I will simply use the Moon as the object being hit with a full yield Photonic Torpedo because I have been able to find a formula for thatFranchise: Star Trek Series: Enterprise Season: 02 Episode: 26 Title: The Expanse wrote: REED: Photonic torpedoes. Their range is over fifty times greater than our conventional torpedoes, and they have a variable yield. They can knock the comm. array off a shuttlepod without scratching the hull or they can put a three kilometre crater into an asteroid.
Sadly I can't make heads or tails out of the formula, but the answer key on the page seems to claim 8 megatons(33472000 gigajoules, or 33472 terajoules) to cause a 2 kilometer crater.http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/moon/5Page82.pdf wrote:
E = 4.0 x 1015 D3 Joules.