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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Cool; yet another reason to update all other unit fields when one is edited.

On the last tube design I did I only modelled the heater resistance so it would put a load on my heater power supply.  But that was in LTSpice; I’ve yet to try out the Kicad integration.

Cheers,
Jeff.


> On 25 Apr 2018, at 19:44, Maciej Suminski <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> Spice netlist exporter outputs a single line for each part (including
> multi-unit ones), meaning you have 1:1 part to model relation. I have
> not checked, but I suppose that in case of divergent field values for
> each unit, the first unit has the priority.
> 
> Speaking of tubes, I have never seen heater models for Spice. Normally
> it is assumed that you have your devices warm and glowing, but perhaps
> there are exceptions.
> 
> Cheers,
> Orson
> 
> On 04/25/2018 06:11 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
>> Hi Orson,
>> 
>> How does the SPICE integration work with multi-unit parts?  If I have a valve with two triode units and a heater unit, do I have a single SPICE model, or are the heaters modelled separately from the triodes (or perhaps even not at all)?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Jeff.
>>