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+/**
+ * Audit every component value shipped in the gallery examples.
+ *
+ * Component values go through `parseValueWithUnits`, which follows the SPICE
+ * suffix convention. Two of its rules routinely trip up whoever authors an
+ * example, because both produce a *silently* wrong circuit rather than an
+ * error:
+ *
+ *   - `M` is MILLI, not mega. `"1M"` is 0.001, and mega is `"1Meg"`.
+ *     100d-auto-night-light shipped `dark: "1M"` for a photoresistor: the
+ *     0.001 ohm "dark resistance" shorted the ADC node to VCC, so the sketch
+ *     read 4095 forever and its lux control did nothing.
+ *   - `F` is FEMTO, and is deliberately NOT stripped as a unit letter, so
+ *     `"10uF"` parses as `10 * 1e-15` — nine orders of magnitude off the
+ *     10 microfarads the author meant. Write `"10u"`.
+ *
+ * A wrong value here is invisible: the netlist builds, ngspice converges, the
+ * part renders, and the example just quietly misbehaves. So assert the parsed
+ * numbers land inside physically sane ranges for their component class.
+ */
+import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
+import { exampleProjects } from '../data/examples';
+import { parseValueWithUnits } from '../simulation/spice/valueParser';
+
+/** Physically plausible ranges, per (metadataId prefix, property). */
+const RANGES: Array<{
+  match: (metaId: string) => boolean;
+  prop: string;
+  min: number;
+  max: number;
+  what: string;
+}> = [
+  // A resistor below an ohm is a wire; above 100 M it's an open.
+  { match: (m) => m === 'resistor' || m.startsWith('resistor-'), prop: 'value', min: 1, max: 1e8, what: 'resistance (ohm)' },
+  { match: (m) => m === 'potentiometer', prop: 'value', min: 10, max: 1e7, what: 'pot resistance (ohm)' },
+  // LDR dark resistance: real parts sit between ~10k and ~20M.
+  { match: (m) => m === 'photoresistor' || m === 'photoresistor-sensor', prop: 'dark', min: 1e3, max: 1e8, what: 'LDR dark resistance (ohm)' },
+  { match: (m) => m === 'photoresistor' || m === 'photoresistor-sensor', prop: 'pullup', min: 100, max: 1e7, what: 'LDR pull-down (ohm)' },
+  // Capacitors: 1 pF .. 1 F covers everything from RF trimmers to supercaps.
+  { match: (m) => m === 'capacitor' || m === 'capacitor-electrolytic' || m.startsWith('capacitor-'), prop: 'value', min: 1e-12, max: 1, what: 'capacitance (F)' },
+  // Inductors: 1 nH .. 10 H.
+  { match: (m) => m === 'inductor' || m.startsWith('inductor-'), prop: 'value', min: 1e-9, max: 10, what: 'inductance (H)' },
+];
+
+interface Offender {
+  example: string;
+  componentId: string;
+  metadataId: string;
+  prop: string;
+  raw: unknown;
+  parsed: number;
+  what: string;
+}
+
+function audit(): Offender[] {
+  const out: Offender[] = [];
+  for (const ex of exampleProjects) {
+    for (const comp of ex.components ?? []) {
+      // Example components carry the branded tag (`wokwi-resistor`); the
+      // mapper sees the stripped metadata id. Compare on both.
+      const raw = String((comp as { type?: string }).type ?? '');
+      const metaId = raw.replace(/^(wokwi|velxio|chip)-/, '');
+      const props = (comp as { properties?: Record<string, unknown> }).properties ?? {};
+      for (const rule of RANGES) {
+        if (!rule.match(metaId)) continue;
+        if (!(rule.prop in props)) continue;
+        const rawVal = props[rule.prop];
+        const parsed = parseValueWithUnits(rawVal, NaN);
+        if (!Number.isFinite(parsed) || parsed < rule.min || parsed > rule.max) {
+          out.push({
+            example: ex.id,
+            componentId: String((comp as { id?: string }).id ?? '?'),
+            metadataId: metaId,
+            prop: rule.prop,
+            raw: rawVal,
+            parsed,
+            what: rule.what,
+          });
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+describe('gallery example component values', () => {
+  it('parse into physically sane ranges', () => {
+    const offenders = audit();
+    const report = offenders
+      .map(
+        (o) =>
+          `${o.example} / ${o.componentId} (${o.metadataId}).${o.prop} = ` +
+          `${JSON.stringify(o.raw)} -> ${o.parsed} — ${o.what} out of range. ` +
+          `Remember: SPICE M = milli (use "Meg"), F = femto (drop the F).`,
+      )
+      .join('\n');
+    expect(report).toBe('');
+  });
+
+  it('covers a meaningful number of components (guard against a silent no-op)', () => {
+    let checked = 0;
+    for (const ex of exampleProjects) {
+      for (const comp of ex.components ?? []) {
+        const metaId = String((comp as { type?: string }).type ?? '').replace(
+          /^(wokwi|velxio|chip)-/,
+          '',
+        );
+        const props = (comp as { properties?: Record<string, unknown> }).properties ?? {};
+        for (const rule of RANGES) {
+          if (rule.match(metaId) && rule.prop in props) checked++;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    expect(checked).toBeGreaterThan(50);
+  });
+});