Kg Magnetics

Kg Magnetics, Inc. is a United States-based company that specializes in books and software pertaining to magnetic component design and its application. The company was founded by Colonel Wm. T. McLyman, a veteran magnetics specialist with over sixty years of experience in the field and fourteen United States patents on magnetics-related concepts. Kg Magnetics offers the "Titan" software program, which performs design and analysis for transformers and inductors, and operates on a wide range of Windows operating systems from Windows 95 through Windows 10, with a Windows 11 version in development. The company also publishes textbooks and application notes on magnetic component design. For over twenty-five years, Kg Magnetics has been active on the lecture circuit, primarily speaking and conducting seminars in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe on the design and fabrication of magnetic components. The company's founder, Colonel McLyman, retired after 30 years 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. During his tenure at JPL, he worked on numerous NASA projects 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), which lasted the life of the spacecraft from 1989 to 2003 without a glitch. He is also the author of four popular textbooks on magnetics. Kg Magnetics continues to offer its software and educational materials, although ordering for the software is currently disabled as of the latest update on the website.

Kg Magnetics, Inc. was founded by Colonel Wm. T. McLyman, a magnetics specialist with over sixty years of experience in the field. Colonel McLyman retired after 30 years 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. During his tenure at JPL, he worked on power conversion and served as the Magnetics Specialist, authoring over seventy JPL Technical Memorandums, New Technology Reports, and Tech-Briefs on magnetics and circuit designs for power conversion, fifty of which were published by NASA. He contributed to numerous NASA projects, 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. Notably, he designed the Galileo signal rotary transformers used by the Command Data System (CDS), which operated without a glitch from 1989 to 2003. He also 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. Colonel McLyman is the author of four popular textbooks on magnetics. Kg Magnetics, Inc. was established to provide books and software for magnetic component design. The company has been active on the lecture circuit for over twenty-five years, conducting seminars in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. Its flagship software, the Titan Magnetics Design Program, performs design and analysis for transformers and inductors and is compatible with Windows 95 through Windows 10, with a Windows 11 version in development. As of the latest website update, ordering for the software is currently disabled.

• Founding of Kg Magnetics, Inc. by Colonel Wm. T. McLyman

• Colonel McLyman retires from JPL after 30 years of service

• Titan Magnetics Design Program released for Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, XP, Vista, and Windows 7, 8, and 10

• Over 25 years of lectures and seminars in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe

• Website copyright updated through 2026; software ordering currently disabled

Specialist provider of educational resources and design software for magnetic components, leveraging the founder's extensive experience at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

• Titan Magnetics Design Program

  Software for design and analysis of transformers and inductors, compatible with Windows 95 through Windows 10.

• Books on magnetic component design

  Textbooks authored by Colonel Wm. T. McLyman, including 'Magnetic Core Selection for Transformers and Inductors'.

• Application Notes

  Seventeen application notes in PDF format included with the software.

• Lecture Presentation 2014 / Two Day Seminar

  PDF of a lecture presentation and two-day seminar.

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