Re: Instead scopes

john larkin <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote:

On Sun, 1 Sep 2024 17:45:46 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
 

On 30/08/2024 2:21 am, Jan Panteltje wrote:

On a sunny day (Fri, 30 Aug 2024 00:43:39 +1000) it happened Bill Sloman
<bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in <vaq1f2$jdj$1@dont-email.me>:
 

It's lot easier and quicker to bread-board a circuit in LTSpice than it
is to wire up a test circuit, but what that means is that you need to
make fewer real circuits and they are a lot more likely to work when tested.
 
That, on it's own, is enough to explain why labs look different today
than they did in the dark ages.

 
All it explains is boeings falling apart and astronuts ending up stuck at the ISS
and no moonlanding from the US, not even a probe.
Slimulations are _not_ realty and never will be.

 
But they can capture useful parts of reality, if you know what you are
doing.
 
John Larkin's simulated inductors tend not to have any parallel capacitance.

 
The trick is to know when it matters. ESR and core loss are usually
more important.
 
I designed this surface-mount inductor for my Pockels Cell driver,
after several tries using commercial parts. They all smoked.
 
It's wound on a specially marked Sharpie pen that we have carefully
reserved.

It better have a regular calibration schedule, or your semiconductor
customers may give you the raised eyebrow.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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