there are various files that are called out as being needed. They should be included in the same directory as the .asc (in the simplest case). Do you have the various .lib files listed in the .asc file?
there are at least 3...zener, LED, and jfet
there are at least 3...zener, LED, and jfet
None of the libraries nor subcircuits were included. The poster did not want to post his personal libraries.
Another stupid question. I've looked through the thread and haven't found it. When you have a wire or component that has both AC and DC on it how do you make the 'voltmeter' and or 'ammeter' measure AC and DC discretely?
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Woofertester....
I didn't see the original thread...perhaps the original poster would include just the subset of his models used in this circuit?
I didn't see the original thread...perhaps the original poster would include just the subset of his models used in this circuit?
AC and DC analysis are spice directives. Directive begin with a .
.op is operating point (DC)
.tran is transient (AC)
Attached are the tutorials from the beginning of this thread.
Is -70dB (relative to the fundamental) high???
Maybe the behavior under 1.3...1.4kHz is more interesting.
as a sanity check, measure the distortion of the source. If all the setup is right, that should show distortion products around -200 dB IIRC.
It is because of only thirth harmonic is present, 60Khz whil 40 Khz is not, that is strange.
Here i get better results when using 1 Khz and not 20 Khz, possible it has a other cause, these sim is a D amp with voltage feedback and extra integrator for bigger open loop, it can also be clocked...
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The 10k is too small to represent the power tube, try at least 100k. Also R4 should be 1Meg, not 1m.
1m=1miliohm or .001 ohms. Use Meg for million ohms, i.e. 1meg. That's why your sim isn't working as expected.
C2 220=220 Farads, that's one helluva big cap. I assume you want 220u, u=micro, (e-06) for microfarads.
You can shorten the value for C1 to .1u or 100n. n=nano (e-09). p=pico (e-12), no need to type out all those zeros.
Not knowing exactly what power amp you are planing on driving with this circuit, 100k would be a more reasonable load, if it's a tube circuit. Solid State is another story. Only you know this since you didn't specify...
Thanks guys, your advice helped a lot. Again. I'm posting an FFT of the preamp design. While my question isn't specifically a Spice question it arises from Spice and should be easy to answer. The run is set at .5 volt input at 1k with a 30 volt output swing. My question is this, there is a large bump in distortion at 140k. Is that distortion parasitics? And is there way to eliminate it? Or does it even need to be eliminated?
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please show your "spice instructions"...things like transient step size, plotwinsize, how long you let things settle, FFT settings...that would allow separating setting issues and reality.
Now you've got me. Could you list what spice instructions you are speaking of? Are they found in Edit Simulation Command? And a guess as to values to input? I know its a lot to ask but I don't know what needs to be included.
Sorry, attached is the circuit I'm working on. The circuit in the earlier post was a known good circuit I was using to work with Spice.I think your added instructions go under DC operating point? That's where I put them and I got the table of voltages and currents. How do I get back to the graph?
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to get your graph...
1. left click output node to display time waveform.
2. right click over that graph...select View=>FFT
3. accept the defaults in the FFT screen for now, but under "Time range to include" select "Specify a Time range", and then just pick the last millisecond of your sim...That will clean up a lot of the FFT slope.
1. left click output node to display time waveform.
2. right click over that graph...select View=>FFT
3. accept the defaults in the FFT screen for now, but under "Time range to include" select "Specify a Time range", and then just pick the last millisecond of your sim...That will clean up a lot of the FFT slope.
