Circuit Emulation Software

[tim west]

been using croc clips for years and the new yenka
home licence gives you access to nearly all the modules from shapes to maths to sequencing to electronics and electrics , mechanical, physics, chemistry etc etc etc

 

[martinxxxxxx]

It is there! four wires - that is it! In the post above on page 1

Untitled

• martinxxxxxx
• 4 Dec 2009
• 1

 

[WabbitPoo]

Thanks to all for your help. Will take a look

 

[ban-all-sheds]

It is there! four wires - that is it! In the post above on page 1

Untitled

• martinxxxxxx
• 4 Dec 2009
• 1

No - if you get a DPDT switch the switch itself will have 6 terminals - the joining of 2 pairs in the diagram to make it functionally 4 terminals is done externally.

As I said - that may be what is going on under the covers of an intermediate switch, but anybody who understands that and can take a DPDT and wire it to perform the function of an intermediate no longer needs to model switching circuits to see how they work.

The corollary of someone who does need to model being someone who does not know enough to be able to use a DPDT switch in place of an intermediate seems quite reasonable to me.

 

[mattylad]

Isnt it better to draw it out & write tables of what happens when you do stuff.

ISTR that you learn better that way.

 

[BS3036]

I think that software like that would be useful if, when you connected something wrong, like shorting out a power supply, there was an animated (and loud) explosion, followed perhaps by a fire. Bet it doesn't though.

 

[Spark123]

Croc clips give an animation of the component blowing up, when the component is clicked with the crocodile it says why it blew up. No sound fx that I am aware of.

 

[BS3036]

Ah! Respect.