A comprehensive study of magnetic-amplifier design I - A practical design method

In the past, magnetic-amplifier design papers have been conspicuously absent from the literature. It would appear that most practical design methods are primarily empirical in nature and tend to be dependent on a notebook of past successful designs. At the other extreme are a few theoretical design methods involving such things as analytical approximations of the nonlinearities of the core materials. It is the purpose of this paper to introduce a new, practical design method which is the outgrowth of a study of magnetic amplifier theory using block-diagram techniques1 and which, by its nature, involves an absolute minimum of "cut and try."