Re: Saturable reactors?

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• Subject: Re: Saturable reactors?
• From: "Marco Denicolai" <Marco.Denicolai-at-tellabs.fi> (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 01:32:53 -0700
• Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

tesla-at-pupman-dot-com on 08.12.98 07:01:14

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Subject:  Saturable reactors?




>Original Poster: "Bill the arcstarter" <arcstarter-at-hotmail-dot-com>

>Guys,
 >I've been spending some quality time reading through a fine old book of
>mine:
>Magnetic Amplifier Engineering, by Attura, (c) 1959

>Anyway - this book describes the basics of a little-known-today
>component called the saturable reactor.  Looks like if I had one I could
>build a quite-unkillable pig controller out of it!

I have been looking to these beasts too but in my understanding they create
a big distortion of the original sine-wave input AC. You would get very
curious wave shapes to feed your primary capacitor and spark gap!

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