General Theory of Current Stabilizers

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Abstract
The general theory of the linear four‐terminal current stabilizer is developed by specifying an arbitrary stabilizer by four parameters which completely determine its performance. By means of an equivalent circuit, the corresponding parameters for a stabilizer associated with a load are evaluated. The performance of the stabilizer associated with a load and power supply is specified by corresponding over‐all parameters which are evaluated in terms of parameters of the stabilizer itself and the load and supply resistances by the same method. The effect on stabilizer currents of variations of the load resistance is evaluated by means of an over‐all equivalent circuit. Two special cases of the general current stabilizer are discussed: One can be specified by only three explicit parameters and is important in practice; the other is the passive current stabilizer. Confirmatory experimental results are presented.

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