Is it Me, Kirchoff or LTSpice that's not working here?

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Engineers and other good people,

I ran into what seems to be a malfunction of something, Kirchhoff's Law states "The algebraic sum of currents in a network of conductors meeting at a point is zero." But here it only seems to be true for the positive period of a sine, can anyone explain it? look here:



Regards.
 

Hi,

Yes, diode current has wrong direction.

Klaus
 

Hi,

I personally don't like to relate the current direction here on the diode orientation.

According Kirchhoff one need the same direction to/from the node for all currents
--> Either all current vectors need to point to the node
...or away from the node.

Klaus
 

KlausST said:
I personally don't like to relate the current direction here on the diode orientation.
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It is a usemodel of measuring device(or instance) current in SPICE.

On the other hand, we measure terminal current in Cadence Spectre.

KlausST said:
According Kirchhoff one need the same direction to/from the node for all currents
--> Either all current vectors need to point to the node
...or away from the node.
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Terminology of "node" is used for Voltage in SPICE Type Simulator.

In this case, there are three terminals connected to one node.
 
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ahh ok, in LTSpice the diode current vector is to the node, the other two are from the node. So LTSpice is not Kirchoff compatible (in lack of a better word)?
 

So LTSpice is not Kirchoff compatible (in lack of a better word)?
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It's your job to arrange the current measurements in accordance with the circuit function. Each two terminal component has a fixed current measurement polarity assigned. If it doesn't point the right way, use a minus sign.

 

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