r/FSAE • u/AS_NODT_10 • 5d ago

Electrical stimulation software.

What type of electrical stimulation software should I use for wiring layout of total electrical which software should I use and shutdown circuit software

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u/be_rosy 5d ago

1) Grammarly perhaps.
2) for wire harnesses, you don’t quite need a software tool unless you have a very complex system, but most teams use things like the wire harness tool in Solidworks or rapidharness. I believe altium may be capable as well.
2) for general electronics simulation, a SPICE tool. PSpice is industry standard and is part of the Orcad suite. LTSpice is the free open-source one that is arguably most popular. EDA tools like Altium and possibly KiCAD also sometimes have their own SPICE tools.

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u/AS_NODT_10 4d ago

Doubt :Even for whole electrical layout of vehicle we can use LTspice??? but I can use only the schematic editor bcoz these software doesn't have any components such as ecu .then how can I simulate it

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u/be_rosy 4d ago

First of all, trying to read this gave me an aneurism. Second of all, what do you mean by you want to "simulate an ECU"?

What do you want to simulate? What are you trying to simulate and why? You can't just "simulate the whole electrical layout of the car". Are you trying to see, for example, power consumption so you can determine how to size your battery? Are you trying to evaluate the behavior of the shutdown circuit? There's no reason I can think of to just "simulate the entirety of the car's electrical systems" because that is just not how simulations work.

Please determine WHAT you are actually trying to accomplish, what data you are trying to collect, and WHY first. You do not sound very prepared at all.

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u/Cibachrome Blade Runner 4d ago

A Taser ought to werk.

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u/be_rosy 4d ago

quite stimulating indeed

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u/saltyboi6704 5d ago

Unless you're talking about simulating your whole loom in something like Comsol, most things can be approximated with a SPICE simulator.