It is very good rule, but even more important is: keep difference between converter circulating currents as small as possible.
With KiCad V7 I just checked that Spice works. With passives I didn’t noticed problems but when trying to insert diode model ended with it being reversed. I have added my 3 cents to:
I have made separate configuration for Spice (Spice only libraries) if I ever will need to use it. In normal configuration I don’t have Spice library.
Ah, I didn’t mean to imply that the simulator in KiCad has errors. (Though I’d be suprised if any such complex software was truly “perfect”…)
What I should have said, is that I have not yet figured out how to use it!
There are too many conflicting (and out of date) tutorials etc online, and as yet I’ve not found the definitive and importantly “Up To Date” noob’s guide do circuit simulation with worked examples for KiCad. If, such a thing actually exists these days.
I can create schematics just fine, but how to make the simulator work with them has escaped me.
Any pointers? I used to use Qucs, but that seems to have fallen out of favor and sort of abandoned. Plus, the current offering is not available sadly for Linux systems.
Hence, I was looking at using KiCad’s simulator, but fell at the first fence, and don’t know why.
Regards to All.
Dave. (Happier with real hardware and high power RF, than software models and simulation.)
I didn’t understood it that way.
I understood that you tried and failed. As didn’t know in what you had a problem I just wanted to say that there should be no very big problem as I trying it only once got it working.
I don’t remember, but I fortunatelly did it 
I don’t know what you are saying about.
Few days ago I switched for a moment to Spice in KiCad, but I used there only resistor while your text about ‘passive’ I understand wider than only resistors.
Hi.
“Qucs” – Quite Universal Circuit Simulator. Fairly highly regarded and very easy to use, handles static and dynamic situations etc.
I’m not sure what it uses behind the user interface, but it worked really well, with good correlation to the real world, and was cross platform. Now it seems, non Windoze users have been left behind.
If there is a good and “up to date” tutorial for KiCad’s simulation facilities, I’d really love to know where it is please, as all I ever find are old tutorials where what they show, doesn’t tie into how it would appear to work now.
Anyway, this is hijacking the original thread. I’ll start this anew sometime when I’m ready to dive in again. Needing too, to re-install KiCad too, after something related to an OS update did the dirty on me… The Flatpack version of KiCad I had, was bricked as a result.
Oh, how do you logout of this forum? That facility seems to be missing, short of exiting the browser and expunging all cookies…
Regards.
Dave B.
Please have a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvtybUhoTOQ and other videos of my channel https://www.youtube.com/@holger8105/videos . There is also a tutorial at KiCad Eeschema as GUI for ngspice, tutorial for setting up the simulation .
When I joined forum in 2017 it was easy, but later they improved forum software.
You need to click at your avatar at the right side, then the Profile icon (last one) and then you will see.
Click on your icon at the top right to get a dropdown panel, then on the profile icon at the bottom of the column, then Logout is the bottom option.
