Dwell time as a %

[Tom Cloud]

>Pardon my ignorance showing here, but I thought that coils will 
>saturate after a certain time, meaning they will only store a fixed 
>amount of energy.  The time taken to store this energy (reach magnetic 
>saturation) is a function of supply voltage.  Therefore if you want 
>say 50% dwell, and saturation at 13.5V is reached at say 5ms, then 
>your dwell time is 2.5ms.  Can anyone confirm this?
>
>Andrew Rabbitt

yep (probably more technically correct to say it's a function of
current, but then I=E/R  :-)

Tom Cloud <cloud at peaches.ph.utexas.edu>