throbscottle
Well-Known Member
Having been slowly getting back into electronics over the last few months, one of the big changes I've discovered is the possibility of simulating circuits before building them.
Well, I've been trying to use some free simulators for Linux for a while now, and it seems such a lot of effort to get any kind of sensible result at all. Most luck I had was with Qucs. I like the Geda suite for drawing, but completely lost with simulation on that. I was hoping to be able to just cobble something together to see if it works, only virtually, and see what's going on with virtual instruments vastly better than my very limited real ones. Well, I'm about ready to give up on simulations now and just use the old fashioned way of creating a scary ball of components with wires sticking out of it - it's quicker and easier! Time to invest in a breadboard...
throbscottle
Well, I've been trying to use some free simulators for Linux for a while now, and it seems such a lot of effort to get any kind of sensible result at all. Most luck I had was with Qucs. I like the Geda suite for drawing, but completely lost with simulation on that. I was hoping to be able to just cobble something together to see if it works, only virtually, and see what's going on with virtual instruments vastly better than my very limited real ones. Well, I'm about ready to give up on simulations now and just use the old fashioned way of creating a scary ball of components with wires sticking out of it - it's quicker and easier! Time to invest in a breadboard...
throbscottle