Static var generator system having improved response time

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A static VAR generator utilizing a multitude of reactor banks each having different computation circuits and firing angle control circuits is provided. The different computation and firing angle control circuits allows the VAR generator the flexibility of being able to change the reactor power in an A.C. network repeatitively in any cycle in response to rapid changes in load demand. This is accomplished by each reactor bank having progressively longer computation times and later insertion of additional banks into the network after the first bank has responded to load demand.