User Manual for Solve ELEC, free software for educational purposes and teaching electric circuits.
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Introduction
Fonctionalities
The version 2.0 of Solve Elec allow you to study circuits in direct current and
alternating current.
-With Solve Elec you can :
= draw a circuit
- modify the properties of circuit components
- define new circuit related entities by their formulas
- see the circuit solution including literal formulas of entities defined by measure
devices
- verify circuit related equations
- draw graphs
- make a report containing various elements displayed in main window
In alternating current you can also :
- display graphs of voltages, potentials ans intensities with an oscilloscope
~ get the transfert functions of circuits and their frequency response graphs.
Solve Elec Window
Main tools -~ = Ox Vv Sk #
Circuit edition tools
Circuit properties -~
Left column Right column
Solve Elec window represents an electricity working station, it is divided in three parts.
- The upper part contains various buttons to switch the circuit on and off and open
different instruments as needed.
- The left column always shows two instruments to draw the cicuit and change circuit
properties.
- The right column shows instruments opened by a click on a button of the main tool
bar. Those instruments can be closed by a click on their close button. When the circuit
is on, the instruments displays are automatically updated each time a circuit property
is changed.
The instruments dimensions can be modified by dragging the separators between them
or by resizing the window.Direct current (DC) and alternating current (AC)
The button at top left corner of the window indicates the circuit operating mode.
Click that button to change the operating mode : the window will display a new
empty circuit, as some components can't be used in AC and DC.
SSS CDirect current
The circuit may contain the following components :
switch, resistor, potentiometer, diodes, voltage and intensity sources,
integrated amplifier, transistor. The voltage sources drive a constant voltage,
the intensity sources drive a constant intensity.
N Sinusoidal alternating current.
The voltages, intensities and potentials are sine waves of same frequency.
Example for a voltage : u(t) = Umax sin( w t + @ ) with an amplitude Umax,
a pulsation w, a phase 8.
Umax
The rms value of uis | Urms.
The frequency fis f = ——
quency 20
The sine waves are represented as complex values visible in circuit properties.
Complex quantities are written in bold.
The complex representation is used to solve the circuit. The complex formulas,
rms values and phases are computed and displayed in the solution.
In AC current all components must be linear to ensure that the voltages and
intensities are sine waves. The circuit may contain the following components :
switch, resistor, potentiometer, voltage and intensity sources, integrated
amplifier in linear mode only.Circ drawing
The circuit is drawn and modified with the tools displayed in the box on the left of the
drawing. The circuit is automatically switched off when it is modified.
Adding a component
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- Click a component displayed in the left box, move the mouse and
“D+ TBF click inside the drawing on the location where you want to insert the
= component.
oO -O-
oS - Type ron the keyboard to rotate the component before inserting it in
SD the drawing.
> K - The component won't be inserted if there is not enough room for it
around the clicked location. Components and wires can't overlay each
QD ® other.
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Drawing and modifying wires
Adding a wire
- Choose wire tool and drag on the circuit to draw a new wire.
- The wires are horizontal or vertical.
Changing a wire length
- Select the wire and drag one of its endings
Contact between to cros:
- By default two crossing wires have no electrical contact.
- Choose contact tool and click the intersection point of two wires to add or remove
a contact
9 wires
Crossing wires without electrical contact
Crossing wires with electrical contact