Rectifier unblocking from a generalized analysis of self-saturating magnetic amplifiers

The unblocking of the self-saturating gate rectifier of the reresetting core in magnetic-amplifier circuits is a well-known phenomenon. Circuit behavior during this unblocked period, a condition sometimes called gate limited reset, may result in appreciably different response times and different gains than would otherwise be expected. The purpose of this paper is to derive analytic predictions of the occurrence of this phenomenon which will be useful in the analysis and design of self-saturating magnetic amplifiers.