Series Resistance is Reality Check for Capacitors and Inductors
“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.” ― J.M. Barrie, The Little Minister
I am no longer updating pc-sim-falstad-vinyasi.zip nor circuitjs1-falstad-vinyasi_v4(*).zip for I am holding myself to a higher standard not provided by Paul's original code. Due to the weight of my critics, whom I must redeem myself if at all possible, and due to my current suspicions of an overly reactive simulator (given the right stimulus of Eric Dollard's LMD analog computer for transmission networks), I have taken the liberty to alter Paul's software in a fundamental fashion for all capacitors and inductors of any type - including transformers and electrolytic capacitors. I have added series resistance to all of these components. The capacitors have a default resistance of 10 milli ohms which may be modified by you, the user, by right-clicking and selecting 'Edit'. The inductors are not editable by the user, but vary according to a rule of thumb chosen by me in which series resistance is always four times the inductance. So if the coil has an inductance of one Henry, then its series resistance is four ohms. All series resistances may be monitored by hovering your mouse cursor over the cap or coil while looking in the lower right corner of the canvas. 'SerR' and 'SerR1' and 'SerR2' are the abbreviations used.
STEPSIM is the same as REALSIM, but stops running after each time frame and must be manually restarted to allow for witnessing development of a surging circuit...
This Wikipedia article is what I used as my model, plus my experience with Paul's simulator over the past year...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalent_series_resistance#Component_models
Here is a list of circuits drafted under the influence of the original software code yet retain some overunity under the influence of series resistance...
http://vinyasi.info/circuitjs1/graphs/overunity-breakthrough.txt_.html
http://is.gd/elektsim -- mirrored archive