Electrical – Calculate the Thévenin Voltage (Vt) and Thévenin Resistance (Rt) equivalent of the circuit below

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Original current to be simplified with Thevenin calculations

I want to find the Thevenin equivalent circuit but because of the positioning of the nodes a and b I can not visualize it correctly and that causes me to struggle. How wil I calculate the Thevenin Resistor (Rt) and Thevenin Voltage (Vt)?

These are my calculations. But when I simulate (LTspice) my voltages and resistance from the original is not equivalent to the thevenin circuit?
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Best Answer

Do it the same way you always would:

  • Calculate the open circuit voltage. With no load connected between A and B, what will be the voltage \$V_{AB}\$? That is the Thevenin voltage \$V_{th}\$.

  • Calculate the short circuit current. If A and B were shorted, what current would flow through that short? If the short circuit current is \$I_s\$ then the Thevenin resistance is \$R_{th}=V_{th}/I_s\$.

If it helps you to visualize the problem, then you can re-draw the circuit however you like, provided you maintain the same connections between the elements.