Fluxgate sensors have typically only 100 µT range, which sometimes limits their applications. Main obstacle for increasing the measurement range power dissipated in their feedback coil. Until now the feedback was always continuous. We suggest to use pulse excitation only for the active part of the period, in which output signal is present. In this paper we show for the first time that if the sensor is excited by short pulses, the feedback need not be continuous, but it can be formed by pulses slightly wider than the excitation pulses. We have shown that in our case the feedback current duty cycle can be only 17.25 %. This means that for the same power we can increase maximum feedback current and thus the range by the factor of three. We show that this can be done without compromising the sensor performance.