Circuitikz american controlled voltage signs

Question

Hello, friends. Well, a picture is worth a thousand words. I would like the behavior on the left rather than on the right, the latters are CircuitTikZ defaults. A helpful guy helped me to do it with independent voltage sources,unfortunately I forgot about asking him for these ones. Does anyone have the same concern out there?

Thanks in advance.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{circuitikz}
\makeatletter
\pgfcircdeclarebipole{}{\ctikzvalof{bipoles/vsourceam/height}}{vsourceAM}{\ctikzvalof{bipoles/vsourceam/height}}{\ctikzvalof{bipoles/vsourceam/width}}{   \pgfsetlinewidth{\pgfkeysvalueof{/tikz/circuitikz/bipoles/thickness}\pgfstartlinewidth}
    \pgfpathellipse{\pgfpointorigin}{\pgfpoint{0}{\pgf@circ@res@up}}{\pgfpoint{\pgf@circ@res@left}{0}}
    \pgfusepath{draw}
    \pgfscope        \pgftransformxshift{\ctikzvalof{bipoles/vsourceam/margin}\pgf@circ@res@left}
        \pgftext[rotate=-\pgf@circ@direction]{$-$}
        \pgfusepath{draw}
    \endpgfscope
    \pgfscope       \pgftransformxshift{\ctikzvalof{bipoles/vsourceam/margin}\pgf@circ@res@right}
        \pgftext[rotate=-\pgf@circ@direction]{$+$}
        \pgfusepath{draw}
    \endpgfscope
}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{circuitikz}[american voltages]
\ctikzset{bipoles/vsourceam/margin=.5}% default too big
\draw (0,0) to[V={v1}] (3,0) to[V={v2}] (3,3) to[V={v3}] (0,3) to[V={v4}] (0,0);
\draw (4,0) to[V={v5}] (6,2);
\end{circuitikz}
\end{document}

As specific code.

Answer 1

1. Eliminating the rotation by setting rotate=0 yields:

   

2. If you desire the +, - symbols to be perpendicular to the path you can instead use rotate=90:

   

3. As per you comment, if you want the + and - signs to always be in the normal non-rotated position then setting rotate=-\pgf@circ@direction (which is what your provided in the MWE above) seems to do just that:

   

Code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{circuitikz}
\makeatletter
\pgfcircdeclarebipole{}{\ctikzvalof{bipoles/vsourceam/height}}{vsourceAM}{\ctikzvalof{bipoles/vsourceam/height}}{\ctikzvalof{bipoles/vsourceam/width}}{   \pgfsetlinewidth{\pgfkeysvalueof{/tikz/circuitikz/bipoles/thickness}\pgfstartlinewidth}
    \pgfpathellipse{\pgfpointorigin}{\pgfpoint{0}{\pgf@circ@res@up}}{\pgfpoint{\pgf@circ@res@left}{0}}
    \pgfusepath{draw}
    \pgfscope        \pgftransformxshift{\ctikzvalof{bipoles/vsourceam/margin}\pgf@circ@res@left}
        \pgftext[rotate=0]{$-$}
        \pgfusepath{draw}
    \endpgfscope
    \pgfscope       \pgftransformxshift{\ctikzvalof{bipoles/vsourceam/margin}\pgf@circ@res@right}
        \pgftext[rotate=0]{$+$}
        \pgfusepath{draw}
    \endpgfscope
}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{circuitikz}[american voltages]
\ctikzset{bipoles/vsourceam/margin=.5}% default too big
\draw (0,0) to[V={v1}] (3,0) to[V={v2}] (3,3) to[V={v3}] (0,3) to[V={v4}] (0,0);
\draw (4,0) to[V={v5}] (6,2);
\end{circuitikz}
\end{document}

Answer 2

This is a simpler approach by defining one's own control voltage called myctrv that modifies the existing control voltage in circuitikz (cV).

\newcommand{\myctrv}[3] % #1 = name , #2 = rotating of the symbol, 
  #3 = rotation of negative polarity.
{
\begin{scope}[transform shape,rotate=#2]
\draw[] (#1){};
\draw[thick] (#1) +(14pt,0)-- +(0,14pt)-- +(-14pt,0)-- +(0,-14pt)-- cycle;
\draw[]  (#1) +(6pt,0) node(){\rotatebox{#2}{$+$}}
         (#1) +(-6pt,0) node(){\rotatebox{#3}{$-$}};
\end{scope}
}

Code

\documentclass[border=5mm]{standalone}  
\usepackage[american,siunitx]{circuitikz}

\newcommand{\myctrv}[3]  % #1 = name , #2 = rotating of the symbol, 
 #3 = rotation of negative polarity.
{
\begin{scope}[transform shape,rotate=#2]
\draw[] (#1){};
\draw[thick] (#1) +(14pt,0)-- +(0,14pt)-- +(-14pt,0)-- +(0,-14pt)-- cycle;
\draw[]  (#1) +(6pt,0) node(){\rotatebox{#2}{$+$}}
         (#1) +(-6pt,0) node(){\rotatebox{#3}{$-$}};
\end{scope}
}

\begin{document}  
\begin{circuitikz}[american voltages]
\draw (0,0) 
to[cV,color=white,name=mycv1,l={v1}] (3,0) 
to[cV,color=white,name=mycv2,l={v2}] (3,3) to[cV,color=white,name=mycv3,l={v3}] (0,3) to[cV,color=white,name=mycv4,l={v4}] (0,0);
\draw (4,0) 
to[cV,color=white,name=mycv5,l=\raisebox{-0.6cm}{\rotatebox{-45}{v5}}] (6,2);
\myctrv{mycv1}{0}{0}
\myctrv{mycv2}{90}{90}
\myctrv{mycv3}{180}{180}
\myctrv{mycv4}{270}{270}
\myctrv{mycv5}{45}{-45}
\end{circuitikz}
\end{document}