Economic design of saturating reactor magnetic pulsers

SATURABLE reactors have been widely applied in the electric control art. A less well-known use is in pulse-shaping or pulse-switching circuits, examples of which are to be found in ignitron trigger circuits and in modulators for high-power oscillators in radar transmitters. In the latter instance, circuits may become quite complex and there has been a need for criteria which will result in a simple design procedure. In this paper some useful relations applicable to this problem are described.