Saturable Reactors

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Original poster: "J. B. Weazle McCreath" <weazle-at-hurontel.on.ca> 


Hello Coilers,

I've a couple of industrial electronics books here that give some info
on various hookups for saturable reactors.  One, titled "Electronics in
Industry" by George M. Chute goes into quite a lot of detail pertaining
to how they can be connected in a variety of ways for various purposes.

In one application, the saturable reactor is used with a pair of diodes
in the A.C. circuit to make it self saturating.  This allows the control
D.C. current to be very small, in the order of a few milliamperes, to
drive the core OUT of saturation.  A battery could be used for the D.C.
source, thus isolating the control circuit completely.

If anyone wants more specific information, let me know and I can either
reply off list, or if interest warrants, via the list.


73, Weazle, VE3EAR/VE3WZL

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