开云体育

ctrl + shift + ? for shortcuts
© 2025 Groups.io

Re: DHTRob PSUDII guide/tutorial

 

开云体育

very reliable info
well known amp builder?
evert

Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone

Op 26/03/2022 om 17:05 heeft felipe cerrillo vindel <fcv@...> het volgende geschreven:

?Attached DHTRob manual/guide, could I trust him? or do you have a better tutorial/guide to use PDUII?

TIA
Felipe


Re: File access

 

Can you check the location that you're trying to load from using Windows Explorer (file manager), maybe by trying to rename a file to see if you have write access to the file. PSUD under Windows can only work within the permissions it's given from the OS, so I suspect this is outside of the control of the app.

If the files are somewhere that worked well years ago, but doesn't work well now, for example the Program Files area, you might need to copy and move them to somewhere more "friendly" and it may ask you to temporarily elevate to Administrator privileges to to do it.

Regards,
Duncan


DHTRob PSUDII guide/tutorial

 

Attached DHTRob manual/guide, could I trust him? or do you have a better tutorial/guide to use PDUII?

TIA
Felipe


Re: File access

 

开云体育

Win 10,? kept current.? Build 76.

Thanks,

Jack

On 3/26/2022 9:30 AM, Duncan Munro wrote:

Would need to know about your setup: Type of operating system (MacOS / Windows), version/build of PSUD from Help|About.

Regards,
Duncan


Re: File access

 

Would need to know about your setup: Type of operating system (MacOS / Windows), version/build of PSUD from Help|About.

Regards,
Duncan


File access

 

I haven't used this for a while and now find that I cannot open any of my saved .psu files.? Looks like some permissions issue.? Any suggestions?

Thanks,

73 Jack KZ5A


Re: Rectifiers.txt

 

开云体育

Hello Duncan,

Thanks again, attached requested rectifiers.txt file.

Kind rgds
Felipe


De: [email protected] <[email protected]> en nombre de Duncan Munro <duncan@...>
Enviado: sábado, 12 de febrero de 2022 21:38
Para: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Asunto: Re: [duncanampspsud] Rectifiers.txt
?
Hi Felipe,

It may be you are using the more modern version of PSUD II which doesn't use rectifiers.txt? If you go to Help -> About it will tell you the version number. If it's build 74 (version 2.20.0) or higher, then rectifiers.txt is replaced by individual .rect files to make it easier to share rectifier models around.

There are the following resources available to help with the later .rect files:

  • The help file under Technical Information gives a short description of how to add your own rectfiers
  • There is a YouTube video at??which talks through the process in more detail
  • There are some support spreadsheets to go along with the video on this groups.io page at?/g/duncanampspsud/files/documentation

If you have an earlier version before 74 then something is badly wrong, but it sounds like you have the later version.

Regards,
Duncan


Re: Rectifiers.txt

 

Hi Felipe,

This is the old version so the previous advice will not help you. Could you please email your rectifiers.txt file to me at postmaster@... and I will take a look at it for you, thanks.

Regards,
Duncan
?


Re: Rectifiers.txt

 

开云体育

Hi Duncan,

Thanks for support, attached screenshot.

Best regards
Felipe


De: [email protected] <[email protected]> en nombre de Duncan Munro <duncan@...>
Enviado: sábado, 12 de febrero de 2022 21:38
Para: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Asunto: Re: [duncanampspsud] Rectifiers.txt
?
Hi Felipe,

It may be you are using the more modern version of PSUD II which doesn't use rectifiers.txt? If you go to Help -> About it will tell you the version number. If it's build 74 (version 2.20.0) or higher, then rectifiers.txt is replaced by individual .rect files to make it easier to share rectifier models around.

There are the following resources available to help with the later .rect files:

  • The help file under Technical Information gives a short description of how to add your own rectfiers
  • There is a YouTube video at??which talks through the process in more detail
  • There are some support spreadsheets to go along with the video on this groups.io page at?/g/duncanampspsud/files/documentation

If you have an earlier version before 74 then something is badly wrong, but it sounds like you have the later version.

Regards,
Duncan


Re: Rectifiers.txt

 

Hi Felipe,

It may be you are using the more modern version of PSUD II which doesn't use rectifiers.txt? If you go to Help -> About it will tell you the version number. If it's build 74 (version 2.20.0) or higher, then rectifiers.txt is replaced by individual .rect files to make it easier to share rectifier models around.

There are the following resources available to help with the later .rect files:

  • The help file under Technical Information gives a short description of how to add your own rectfiers
  • There is a YouTube video at??which talks through the process in more detail
  • There are some support spreadsheets to go along with the video on this groups.io page at?/g/duncanampspsud/files/documentation

If you have an earlier version before 74 then something is badly wrong, but it sounds like you have the later version.

Regards,
Duncan


Rectifiers.txt

 

I added some rectifiers to rectifiers.txt, but when open PSUDII aren't available?

TIA for help
Felipe


Re: MacOS Error

 

Hi Chris,

I had this issue a while back, it's security related. Please check Message #20 within this group for some suggestions that may help.

Regards,
Duncan


MacOS Error

 

Good morning. ?Running MacOS 12.1 Monterey. ? When I opened psud this morning, I got the following error popups.

Clicked "OK" in both cases to ignore, but psud does not open.

Downloaded build 77, but got the exact same error messages . . . ??

Any ideas?

Chris


Re: Enhabcement

 

开云体育

Hi Duncan,

The small resistances are the wire.

The circuit is as built in the amp. I know I can parallel up the parts and had done so in the initial run.
effective saves 10s in execution, gains 10s in delay.


I ran into OOM issues with much simpler circuits and similar delays.

The power supply does take a while to stabilize on a plain old VOM from a cold start.

AND PLEASE fix Save As... to the same folder as the orig and preserve the name to allow me to make a Rev change if I load from recent on the File menu ?

C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\psud\examples??? Never!!!!
- Ian
On 12/12/2021 12:01, Duncan Munro wrote:

Hi Ian,

This circuit is problematic in a significant number of places.

R1 - 10 milliohm resistor goes into 40uF capacitor with series resistance of 4.24 ohms and an inductor with resistance of 25 ohms. I'm really not getting what that 10 milliohm resistor is doing for you? All it will do is force the simulator to review the tiny RC constant of 10milliohm/40uF into smaller and smaller timesteps until it breaks or you run out of memory.

Similar with C2/C3/C4 and R2/R3 balancing them. Again, this will force the timesteps to be very small and consume memory. These are loops with potentially high currents that can only be balanced with microscopic time steps (long sim times and lots of memory). C2/C3/C4 can be replaced with one 600uF capacitor with ESR of the three resistances in parallel. R2/R3 can be removed - they are not contributing materially to the PSU output.

A power supply shouldn't take 80 seconds to stabilise, this will exacerbate the problem. As will running high accuracy with the aforementioned values that the simulator will struggle to balance.

Regards,
Duncan



Re: Enhabcement

 

Hi Ian,

This circuit is problematic in a significant number of places.

R1 - 10 milliohm resistor goes into 40uF capacitor with series resistance of 4.24 ohms and an inductor with resistance of 25 ohms. I'm really not getting what that 10 milliohm resistor is doing for you? All it will do is force the simulator to review the tiny RC constant of 10milliohm/40uF into smaller and smaller timesteps until it breaks or you run out of memory.

Similar with C2/C3/C4 and R2/R3 balancing them. Again, this will force the timesteps to be very small and consume memory. These are loops with potentially high currents that can only be balanced with microscopic time steps (long sim times and lots of memory). C2/C3/C4 can be replaced with one 600uF capacitor with ESR of the three resistances in parallel. R2/R3 can be removed - they are not contributing materially to the PSU output.

A power supply shouldn't take 80 seconds to stabilise, this will exacerbate the problem. As will running high accuracy with the aforementioned values that the simulator will struggle to balance.

Regards,
Duncan


Re: Enhabcement

 

开云体育

On 12/12/2021 09:40, Paul Reid wrote:
On 12/12/2021 12:14 PM, Ian Eales wrote:
I get OOM messages when I try to simulate over 80s delay.
Seems slightly lethargic given the hardware?

For what circuit??



Also: what do you expect to change at 80 seconds?
Tubes to get hot, voltages to drop, currents to stabilize.


Memory utilization rises from 3.38GB to 3.73GB. PSUD set for High accuracy.
Back in the day when bytes mattered, we didn't make a humongous table for simulations, but used a looping algorithm to preserve memory. Since PSUD results are not time scrollable, after xx seconds should essentially be unlimited.

16bit legacy issue ???


I think more details of your circuit are needed; maybe the PC also.

...







Re: Enhabcement

 

On 12/12/2021 12:14 PM, Ian Eales wrote:
I get OOM messages when I try to simulate over 80s delay.
Sorry; attachment fell off. Showing 7 sec for 99 sec.


Re: Enhabcement

 

On 12/12/2021 12:14 PM, Ian Eales wrote:
I get OOM messages when I try to simulate over 80s delay.
Seems slightly lethargic given the hardware?
For what circuit??

Using default circuits, even with extreme capacitor, on an older 8GB 3MHz Win7 PC, 99 Second simulation: no error and 7 or 8 seconds.

Also: what do you expect to change at 80 seconds?

Memory utilization rises from 3.38GB to 3.73GB. PSUD set for High accuracy.

I think more details of your circuit are needed; maybe the PC also.


Enhabcement

 

开云体育

Hi Duncan,

My PC has 32GB and I get OOM messages when I try to simulate over 80s delay.

Additionally, is updating the screen with calculation status slowing the final data?






Seems slightly lethargic given the hardware?
-- 
- Ian


Re: Feature request

 

Hi Fabio,

This is on the "to do" list, there have been a number of requests for this type of hybrid bridge rectifier where users want a vacuum tube top half and solid state bottom half. Spookily, I've been working on the simulator for this only this morning and have got some code working where the diodes can be different. Last iteration of the feature list is at ->?/g/duncanampspsud/message/67

As a general note and update for everyone, I've had a book delivered on Friday written by the "clever people" which has been been very helpful in getting the concepts for the core simulator to a level of accuracy and flexibility that will allow these kind of variations (Jiri Vlach / Kishore Singhal; Computer Methods for Circuit Analysis and Design).

The home-brewed first generation simulator in PSUD1 and PSUD2 is problematic to say the least. The second generation one (a variant on the first) I put together for PSUD3 over the summer is much more accurate, but wasn't scalable in terms of performance.?Additionally, it struggles to support some of the requested features like the hybrid bridge and the PSU splitting, hence me going on a book buying spree to come up with something that will fit the next iteration of the software.

Right... back to my circuit simulations... :)

Regards,
Duncan