Magnetic amplifier Design — Part I

THE EXCELLENT SUITABILITY and fine performance of the magnetic amplifier in applications requiring ruggedness and reliability have led to increasing use of this device as a control component. From this situation arises a need for information and methods to be used in the design of the magnetic amplifier as a system component. With this background, an effort is directed toward presenting an organized collection of data which may be used in a practical step-by-step manner to design the toroidal magnetic amplifier. Although emphasis is given to the single-ended, full-wave, single-phase circuits, some approximate equivalence factors have been given for various other circuits. The scope is limited to the self-saturating type magnetic amplifiers. These techniques are arranged to save the component designer´s time and thus expedite the engineering of magnetic amplifiers.