Colonel Wm. T. McLyman
President, Kg Magnetics, Inc.
P.O. Box 3703
Idyllwild, CA 92549-3703
Email: colonel@kgmagnetics.com
Colonel McLyman has forty-seven years of experience in the field of
Magnetics, and holds fourteen United States Patents on Magnetics-related concepts.
He retired as a Senior Member of the Avionics Equipment Section of the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) affiliated with the California Institute of
Technology in Pasadena, California.
Throughout his thirty years at JPL in power conversion and as the
Magnetics Specialist, he has written over seventy JPL Technical Memorandums,
New Technology Reports, and Tech-Briefs on the subject of Magnetics and circuit
designs for power conversion, fifty of which have been published by NASA.
He has worked on projects for NASA including the Pathfinder Mission to Mars,
Voyager I and II, Topex/Poseidon, Cassini, Galileo, Magellan, Viking, International
Solar Polar, Hubble Space Telescope, Seasat, SIR-C,
Mars Global Surveyor, NSCAT and the Deep Space Network.
He designed the Galileo signal rotary transformers used by the
Command Data System (CDS), when the slip rings
produced excessive noise on the 1-Mbit data bus.
The performance of the signal rotary transformer exceeded
all expectations. The rotary
transformer on the Galileo Spacecraft lasted the life of the spacecraft, which
was from 1989 to 2003 without a glitch.
He has designed the Quiet Converter with its low noise environment
into programs such as WF/PC-II, Articulated Fold, Mirror Actuators,
(Hubble Space Telescope), MISR (Earth Orbiting System), Raman, and Mars 05 ONC, CCD Camera.
He is the author of four popular textbooks,
Magnetic Core Selection for Transformers and Inductors, Second Edition,
Designing Magnetic Components for High-Frequency DC-DC Converters,
High Reliability Magnetic Devices: Design and Fabrication,
and the recently revised and expanded, Third Edition of
Transformer and Inductor Design Handbook.
Through his company, Kg Magnetics, Inc., he markets a design and
analysis computer program for transformers and inductors. This program operates
on Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT and XP.
He has been on the lecture circuit for over twenty
years speaking and doing seminars in the United States,
Canada, and Europe on the design and fabrication of magnetic components.
He is known as a recognized authority in Magnetic design. He is the
President of his company called Kg Magnetics, Inc., which specializes in power
magnetic design, which was formed and incorporated in 1985.