PSIM simulation hangs

Dionisio
Dionisio Altair Community Member
edited July 5 in Community Q&A

Hello.

I am using PSIM 2024.0.0.2471. I have a simulation that last about 15 minutes to finish. Everything works correctly. But if "Save Flag" is activated in Simulation Control the simulation never ends. The simulation reaches 99% in 15 minutes and does not stop. I have keep simulation running 50 minutes and is still in 99%. If I try to stop simulation says "simulation in progress..". If try to close the program says the same. Why? what is happening?

Thanks.

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  • Albert_Dunford
    Albert_Dunford
    Altair Employee
    edited July 4

    is there a time delay block in the simulation? I have seen issues in the past where a block like this will cause a problem with the save flag if the delay is abnormally long. In the image below "100s" is very long. In the case below

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    The Save Flag will save all the points required by the delay block, and the number of points is equal to:
       N = Delay_Time / time_step

    In this case, N = 100/1e-5 = 10e6. Essentially PSIM tries to write 10M points to a text file, and this will take a very long time. On my computer, for example, for a delay time of 1 sec. (or 100K points), it took 3 min. to complete the writing and generated a text file of 6MB. 

  • Dionisio
    Dionisio Altair Community Member
    edited July 5

    Thanks. Solved.

    I had some Delays in my system. I removed all and the problem was solved.

    Thanks a lot.

  • Albert_Dunford
    Albert_Dunford
    Altair Employee
    edited July 5
    Dionisio said:

    Thanks. Solved.

    I had some Delays in my system. I removed all and the problem was solved.

    Thanks a lot.

    brilliant.