/members-area/personalblogs/b/blog/posts/modifying-my-motor-winding-simulatorThose of you that have followed my insulation tester series may have noticed that I have a little winding simulator to carry out winding resistance and insulation tests on, to save going out and finding a motor. The simulator also produces consistenten-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/members-area/personalblogs/b/blog/posts/modifying-my-motor-winding-simulatorWed, 23 Oct 2019 22:12:42 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:5d4abff2-6e77-4703-bfaa-1613632c3a49genebren1<p>Donald,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A great write-up and a great little tool.&nbsp; Simulators are always a good way to test or evaluate when you do not have easy access to the real thing.&nbsp; At one point in my career, I developed relatively complex simulators to assist in testing/evaluating avionics equipment in the lab.&nbsp; We would read inputs from a cockpit mock-up, and then simulate the aircraft in flight, along with other instrumentation (gyros, air data computers, etc.) and feed all of this data to the device under test.&nbsp; We would then sample all of the outputs from the device under test and feed those back into the simulations.&nbsp; This allowed us to fully test/prove all of our software in the lab, before we moved onto the real airframe.&nbsp; This saved us from the cost of air time, and allow us to insert faults and out of bounds data into the device to better test our code.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>P.S.&nbsp; I really like the screwdriver in your second image.&nbsp; I have one on my desk/workbench and it is one my favorite tools.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Gene</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=8017&AppID=293&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">