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LTSpice is my go-to circuit simulator, but I have spent weeks of my waking life waiting on it to run simulations. My current demon is simulating a 1 MW DC powe
by willis936 6y ago
LTSpice is my go-to circuit simulator, but I have spent weeks of my waking life waiting on it to run simulations. My current demon is simulating a 1 MW DC power supply to validate current output smoothing solutions in low load scenarios. The topology is a delta-delta and delta-wye transformer, each feeding a summing bridge rectifier, the two rectifiers have their negative legs tied together and the positive legs are the outputs.
I only simulate one pulse (about 3 ms), but the simulation takes minutes to resolve the inrush. Tuning circuit impedances to match measurement is a real pain. At this point I'm just going to take many more direct measurements. If it was quick I would have written a script to scan through unknown parameters to maximize correlation with measurements, but that isn't reasonable when the simulation fails after several minutes of trying for most values.
- m-ee 6y agoOof that's rough. Don't know if it can handle your topology but have you tried LTPowerCAD or TIs equivalent? They did the job when I was doing a boost converter design but I don't remember how capable they were for more complex tasks.