Abstract: A variable reactor having main windings wound on one set of legs of a magnetic core and control windings mounted on another set of legs. The core provides common paths for the control flux resulting from the control windings and the main windings, but the magnetic circuit for the flux caused by the control windings does not include the legs on which the main windings are wound.

Abstract: A switching type power supply is provided which includes a first and a second SCR with a diode connected in reverse across each of them. The first SCR-diode pair in response to a clock pulse charges a capacitor which when fully charged causes the first SCR current to return to zero, forward biases the first diode and commutates the first SCR off for at least the required minimum turn-off time of the SCR. After the capacitor reaches the peak charge value, the second SCR is selectively triggered to couple the desired portion of the stored energy to the power supply load via a transformer. After the currents in the secondary windings of the transformer reverse, and the capacitor achieves a peak charge of the opposite polarity, the current through the second SCR becomes zero, the second diode is forward biased, and the second SCR is commutated off.