Component dissipated power in simulation

[jiampong212]

in LTSpice, you can alt click a component to display the power. Does kicad have a similar feature? I’m currently in a linux machine so kicad is what i use

[Ste]

No…or at least “not yet”. The only way I know how to do it currently is via this workaround:

Wattage and current in Spice

Heads up thinkin’! That’s a good idea for a workaround. I guess the most straightforward way is to use a behavioral voltage source. You would then need to know your node names for the voltage across the component(s), or label them yourself. I whipped up something really quick. The netlist generator does not like if nodes don’t connect to anything so I had to add dummy resistors R3 and R4 for everything to parse correctly. Probably a bug. I dunno. Not gonna really deal with it since I got…