{"id":554,"date":"2012-05-07T16:21:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T16:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gswce.net\/?p=554"},"modified":"2012-05-07T16:39:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T16:39:29","slug":"transient-bank-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gswce.net\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"Transient Bank Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"

In theory it’s a bank holiday here today, which means I don’t have to work. In practice, of course, there’s no way I could do this job if I didn’t work evenings, weekends and bank holidays, so today I’ve been moderating some exam questions and preparing some mini-lectures for the labs later this week. However, I’ve allowed myself some time off, just enough to get the new transmission line demo<\/a> into some sort of working state.<\/p>\n

It’s not very polished this one, and I’ve no doubt I’ll be returning to it later, but I thought I’d put it up here so I could, in some sense, call it “finished for now” and get on with something else. I won’t be needing it myself until next year.<\/p>\n

It’s my first attempt at a transient circuit simulator. I’d never done one of these before, and after getting myself rather tied in knots trying to think of a good way to do this, and searching the Internet rather fruitlessly for some ideas, a student lent me a copy of “Electronic Circuit and System Simulation Methods” by Lawrence Pillage, Ronald Rohrer and Chandramouli Visweswariah. It seems to be a difficult book to get hold of for a sensible price, which is a shame, since it was very useful. To the authors: thanks, just reading the first chapter was enough to solve my problem.<\/p>\n

Two chapters of the book now available… progress. Slow, admittedly, but at least it is progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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