Just tweaked an old project to add a duplicate channel to show my students something, and ended up spending the entire afternoon trying to understand why we were seeing different currents in the two halves, when they appeared to be exactly identical. It wasn't until I read through the saved circuit text file, that I noticed that the new section use "default led", and the original used "old default led".
I realize that that diagnostic information does show up when mousing-over the component in the interface, but quite obviously three of us looking at the interface for 4 hours didn't happen to notice the difference. If the interface used different symbols (maybe a different line weight or something similar) for the old and new components, or otherwise labeled them differently, it would have saved us a bunch of time scratching our heads!
Just tweaked an old project to add a duplicate channel to show my students something, and ended up spending the entire afternoon trying to understand why we were seeing different currents in the two halves, when they appeared to be exactly identical. It wasn't until I read through the saved circuit text file, that I noticed that the new section use "default led", and the original used "old default led".
I realize that that diagnostic information does show up when mousing-over the component in the interface, but quite obviously three of us looking at the interface for 4 hours didn't happen to notice the difference. If the interface used different symbols (maybe a different line weight or something similar) for the old and new components, or otherwise labeled them differently, it would have saved us a bunch of time scratching our heads!