How to: Getting Started with LTspice

LTspice is powerful electronic circuit simulator software and it is free. Probably because it is free, not too much effort has been put into its user interface. Even though it is perfectly capable of what it is designed for, it does not look pretty and lacks user-friendliness. But with a bit of effort, it can be a valuable tool. This video will help you to get started with LTspice.

Resources

* Here is the red LED model used in the video (it is one line):
.MODEL RED D (IS=93.2P RS=42M N=3.73 BV=4 IBV=10U CJO=2.97P VJ=.75 M=.333 TT=4.32U)

Contents

0:00 Intro
0:05 Getting Started with LTspice
0:34 Example Circuit
1:22 Get LTspice
1:37 Quick Tour
2:18 Draw the Circuit
2:25 Place Components
5:23 Wire the Circuit
7:30 Enter Component Values
12:04 Run the Simulation
16:10 Use Labels
16:55 Add a Model
17:44 Estimating Current Consumption
18:57 Summarizing
19:34 Outro

[rudolfvaavra]

the best LTSpice tutorial I've ever seen

[ioanniskyriakidis]

Absolutely fantastic! What I needed to get started with this ugly user interface but, sure, great tool! Thank you and hope to see more on this topic.

[abrahamfoam]

I was reading long articles, long books, and I was confused about spice, I just watched this half an hour video and now I know where everything goes. Thank you <3

[darkman]

Thank You for this video. Been looking for a basic intro to LTspice. Hope to see further videos on LTspice.

[acestudioscouk-Ace-GACE]

This was really useful for me as a beginner, thank-you! I've also subscribed, so I can see more of your work.

[krishnasa]

Excellent explanation, thank you very much.

[jost]

Really great work! Please more such interesting and really good explained videos. In another video Lorandt Völkel said that in LT Spice you could do also virtual EMI tests.
Maybe you could make an video to create an filter for an DCDC which make EMC problems.

[Keeping_IT_Simple]

Excellent Introduction to LTSpice - please consider further videos on this program

What about Linux users - what is the best option for them as LTSpice does not have a Linux version currently

[Madhan]

how to work with different ~nm scale, 180nm, 250nm,