Recent content by DarkGuardsman

Thanks that should make it easy to explain to the other devs i work with.

That is why i asked the diode question as the few power supplies I've built use diodes for protection. Though I'm interested in what would happen if i had a power supply that allowed reverse current flow. I assume that nothing good would happen and at some point it would stop working.

In some ways it does but at the same time I'm not designing the circuit. What I'm looking to do is understand what the circuit will do if i put it under X condition. So knowing that adding a diode just ignores the lower source is actual a bit thing. At the same time knowing that one battery can...

Thanks i read that as i had just got up so it didn't click right away. So it only just removes the source from the circuit with no other effects? If that is the case then I'm slowly getting to were i can get this simulator of mine working correctly.

Not sure if that was directed at me or vk6kro but I'm looking to create the code that makes the simulation software work. In which I'm asking these simple questions to confirm a few things. This way i don't create a false simulation by having it use the wrong assumptions. Also yes blowing up...

Not worried to much with overload as that is a simple matter to program. What I'm looking to figure outs is the circuit half of the understanding. As in what will be my total voltage, and amp output of the sum of all sources in the branch. I might edit the OP to make that clearer.

hmm nearly forgot about internal resistance. Say in my case though that my sources had diodes to prevent reverse flow of energy. Would they simple be ignored as they can't over come the pressure applied on their inputs. As well would the voltage drop any to prevent that source from outputting?

About: I'm currently working on programming a basic circuit simulator for a game. One of the things i don't have a sure answer on is parallel voltage sources. I understand from what I've read so far that when two sources are in parallel the lower of the two gets overloaded. If they are the same...