I read that to avoid inductor loop errors when using the CCCS (E) in PSpice, the controlling current should be taken through a low Ohmage shunt resistor.
I was just figuring out the Thevenin voltage for a circuit that contains a CCCS, and decided to use one of the 3 ohm branch resistors, thinking that that would do the same thing as a shunt resistor, since the current through the branch is modeled as being the same before and after the resistor, so it should act the same way as a lower ohmage shunt resistor. This was not the case, and has a drastic effect on the Thevenin equivalent that is determined by a probing current at the outside terminals.
Clearly, the CCCS (E) in PSpice is not directly seeing the current between two parts of a branch, so how do these CCCS's work? How are they actually being controlled?
I was just figuring out the Thevenin voltage for a circuit that contains a CCCS, and decided to use one of the 3 ohm branch resistors, thinking that that would do the same thing as a shunt resistor, since the current through the branch is modeled as being the same before and after the resistor, so it should act the same way as a lower ohmage shunt resistor. This was not the case, and has a drastic effect on the Thevenin equivalent that is determined by a probing current at the outside terminals.
Clearly, the CCCS (E) in PSpice is not directly seeing the current between two parts of a branch, so how do these CCCS's work? How are they actually being controlled?