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Re:The Magnetic Amplifier – A Lost Technology of the 1950s by cpcallen on Thursday June 18, 2020 @05:49AM (#23561507)
I think he means the response frequency, not the frequency of the AC drive (which he states was 10 kHz).
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Re:The Magnetic Amplifier – A Lost Technology of the 1950s by tonyarkles on Thursday June 18, 2020 @08:40AM (#23562512)
Yeah, they’re almost definitely referring to the control signal. Since it’s controlling the saturation of the core, it’ll happily go down to DC just fine.
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