Kirchhoff's circuit analysis for the curious

Salvo wrote:
Cool. Dave is exciting and funny.

Spice just shoot nodal analysis out of the water. It's like taking a pea shooter to a gun fight. I recall my nodal analysis to arrive at battery bank current sharing and then you come along with fancy spice graphs.

But, there's something to be said about the old school method. Once the machines take over, you can't trust the computer anymore. ;-)

You need to understand the theory so you can do a sanity check on the Spice results. I have seen new engineers do an analysis with an input modeling error and get bogus results they took as valid results.

Dick

Cool. Dave is exciting and funny.

Spice just shoot nodal analysis out of the water. It's like taking a pea shooter to a gun fight. I recall my nodal analysis to arrive at battery bank current sharing and then you come along with fancy spice graphs.

But, there's something to be said about the old school method. Once the machines take over, you can't trust the computer anymore. ;-)

very good tutorials. Takes me back to my freshman basic circuit theory classes. His enthusiasim reminds me of some of my best professors.

Now a good video on Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits would be another good one for reference.