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Would it be possible to add a few sanity checks to CircuitLab? Things like:

(1) Diagnose parts with only one terminal connected. This is always a mistake.

(2) Have a power dissipation limit for parts and warn if the dissipation goes too high. This will catch a lot of errors. I had an op amp dissipating 1,233 watts.

(3) Do some simple sanity checking re conservation of energy. For instance, total up all the power coming out of the voltage and current sources. Total up all the power being dissipated ( DC conditions ). If there's more dissipated than coming in, something is wrong with the simulation! That would help out that poor guy with the FET and transistor where the source was putting out about a watt but R3 was dissipating 66 watts. OOPS.