https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/27/feedNew Posts - Meta - Electrical EngineeringElectrical Engineering - Codidact2024-03-26T12:12:38Zhttps://electrical.codidact.com/posts/285032How can we grow this community?Monica Celliohttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/80462021-12-02T01:18:19Z2024-03-26T12:12:38Z<p>Codidact's communities have a lot of great content that is helping people on the Internet. Our communities are small, though, and sustainable communities depend on having lots of active, engage...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/289614What residential wiring questions are on-topic here?matthewsnyderhttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/613082023-09-06T15:54:13Z2023-09-07T06:49:27Z<p>I'm not very familiar with this site but was pointed to it by <a href="https://proposals.codidact.com/comments/thread/8371#comment-21663">a comment</a>.</p>
<p>That made me wonder, what exactly...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/289500Professional vs Hobbyist advice and potentially dangerous projectsSclrxhttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/530912023-08-22T15:33:47Z2023-08-23T08:46:10Z<p>This discussion was prompted by answers to <a href="https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/289472">this question</a>.</p>
<p>While the answers are good (basically, when designing for the medical...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/289348How to request a mass-change in capitalization for tags?Lorenzo Donatihttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/529912023-08-13T15:06:51Z2023-08-18T02:27:57Z<p>In my effort to clean-up and organize tags on <a href="http://EE.CD">EE.CD</a> I arrived at a point where there are a lot of old tags with wrong capitalization.</p>
<p>How should I request the ...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/289416Tag creation/deletion criteriaLundinhttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/81762023-08-17T11:30:39Z2023-08-17T16:38:07Z<p>Because of recent discussions regarding whether vague terms like <code>voltage</code> and <code>ground</code> should be valid tag names or not, it is clear that we have no consistent rules here....https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/289204Tag naming guidelines.Lorenzo Donatihttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/529912023-08-03T10:47:05Z2023-08-17T11:51:25Z<p>I've done a lot of work on tags lately and I'd like to share with the community some thoughts about the way tags should be named so that maybe it could become part of the FAQ and so hopefully le...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/289392How to deal with design review questions?Lundinhttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/81762023-08-16T12:56:59Z2023-08-16T16:46:06Z<p>A while back someone suggested that we added a section for reviews to the site - <a href="https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/280564">How about a new section for code reviews?</a> From that me...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/289342Big tags overhaul - 1st part - please delete those tags!Lorenzo Donatihttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/529912023-08-12T13:52:32Z2023-08-12T18:20:22Z<p>I've just finished a first clean-up of the tags pages, where I consolidated tags, provided synonyms, wrote guidance text and defined some hierarchy.</p>
<p>As a result there are quite a lot of ...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/289217Tags about quantities: should we have them?Lorenzo Donatihttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/529912023-08-03T19:03:45Z2023-08-09T07:29:08Z<p>I've noticed there are a lot of tags referring to general physical quantities (e.g. <code>current</code>, <code>voltage</code>, <code>frequency</code>)</p>
<p>I'm not sure if they are useful. F...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/289183Apparent loss of reputation in last 24 hoursAndy akahttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/529872023-08-01T20:23:04Z2023-08-01T20:50:33Z<p>Has anyone else noticed a loss of reputation recently. I thought I checked yesterday and my reputation was a hundred points higher at 1889. Now it is at 1789. My vote summary doesn't indicate a ...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/288720Should posting on Meta affect reputation?Monica Celliohttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/80462023-06-27T00:48:17Z2023-08-01T12:19:48Z<p>When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, s...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/289149How about a `basic-circuit-block` tag?Lorenzo Donatihttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/529912023-07-30T08:51:42Z2023-07-30T08:51:42Z<p>I'm in the process of giving the tags page some structure, writing tag descriptions and creating synonyms and some hierarchy.</p>
<p>I'd like to know the Community stance on a new tag I'd like ...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/283239Is English translation of technical terms on-topic?Lundinhttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/81762021-08-09T12:01:24Z2023-07-26T14:57:40Z<p>Quite often, I find myself knowing the technical term of an electronic component in my native language, but not the proper English term. For example when translating a manual or other technical ...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/285781Creating a FAQ: how to read a datasheetLundinhttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/81762022-02-01T11:04:10Z2023-07-25T09:51:13Z<p>After reading various low quality questions Someplace Else today, it (once again) occurred to me that a whole lot of people, mostly hobbyists and engineering students, have no clue how to do the...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/287788Should a fake user's posts be deleted if the fake user has subsequently been deleted by the siteAndy akahttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/529872023-01-25T15:28:47Z2023-01-26T15:22:01Z<p>The question below was raised by a "new user". The identity of the "new user" was deleted because it was found to be an alias of an already suspended user: -</p>
<p><img alt="Image alt text" sr...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/287353A community-maintained list of abbreviations used in electrical engineering?Lundinhttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/81762022-11-04T12:34:19Z2022-11-05T12:55:07Z<p>At Somewhere Else, we started an initiative to make a community-maintained list of abbreviations used in electrical engineering: <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/286462Wish to have comment votesKalleMPhttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/81142022-05-16T17:19:20Z2022-05-17T12:16:41Z<p>Every time I visit Codicact I miss the comment voting feature. There is no way to know if some comment is rubbish or a gem because the opinions of others are hidden from future visitors. I wis...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/286464Easy way to convert over long comment into an answerKalleMPhttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/81142022-05-16T17:46:57Z2022-05-16T17:46:57Z<p>Easy way to convert over long comment into an answer.</p>
<p>It would be great if while typing a quick comment to a question you realise that you are about to exceed the character count and it ...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/286156Misuse of mod privilege?deleted user#2022-03-25T16:50:40Z2022-03-27T19:54:23Z<h6>This question may be only for <a href="https://electrical.codidact.com/users/36396">@Olin Lathrop</a> but I would like to hear others opinion</h6>
<p>When I had asked <a href="https://electric...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/286122Code formatting appears to be brokenLundinhttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/81762022-03-18T09:16:24Z2022-03-21T07:22:49Z<p>I posted a post containing C code in the Papers category <a href="https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/286121">here</a>, using the <code> ```c</code> formatting which works elsewhere on Codidac...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/285889Let's make all downvotes publicOlin Lathrophttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/363962022-02-09T14:52:18Z2022-02-13T16:17:58Z<p>One of the aggrevations Elsewhere were all the vandal and retribution downvotes. They never took the problem seriously. Now it's happening here. Andy was the latest target, twice, recently. ...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/285876Still getting downvotes - what are you guys doing about it?Andy akahttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/529872022-02-08T23:21:43Z2022-02-09T14:38:18Z<p>It's still happening: -</p>
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<p>Can someone actually do anything about this?</p>
<p>Thi...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/285858Creating an "Insights" categorycoquelicothttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/531102022-02-07T10:52:32Z2022-02-08T13:17:32Z<p>Looking at the "papers" category, I found that several papers do not fit the very purpose of this category (that's the reason I've not upvoted them). Nevertheless, they are relatively well writt...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/285854Why am I receiving so many downvotes at once?Andy akahttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/529872022-02-06T21:43:54Z2022-02-06T23:28:40Z<p>Why am I getting these downvotes? It started last week (or the week before) and now it seems like it's getting contagious: -</p>
<p><img alt="Screenshot of 9 downvotes on February 6, 2022" src=...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/285696Are reference requests on-topic?Darth_Muldoonhttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/548372022-01-26T04:53:22Z2022-01-26T07:53:24Z<p>Are reference material requests on-topic here?</p>
<p>For example, I am looking for a textbook discussing hydrogen fuel cell design, preferably oriented towards something that could be made in ...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/285166How to treat data communication questions?Lundinhttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/81762021-12-08T14:05:45Z2021-12-08T22:18:07Z<p>This question <a href="https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/285155">here</a> about the OSI model was closed as off-topic. How should we treat questions about data communication?</p>
<p>What is...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/285079Do we need tags for supply voltages?Lundinhttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/81762021-12-03T13:52:50Z2021-12-03T21:17:14Z<p>Someone just created the tags <a href="https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/6150">208VAC</a> and <a href="https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/6151">230VAC</a>. If th...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/284537React feature guidelines?Lundinhttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/81762021-10-08T10:36:28Z2021-10-28T17:03:30Z<p>I think we should try to come up with some consensus regarding how to use the new <a href="https://meta.codidact.com/posts/284455">reactions feature</a>, more specifically the "outdated" and "da...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/284215Quality control of the siteMu3https://electrical.codidact.com/users/530142021-09-16T07:50:19Z2021-09-30T18:37:16Z<p>Let's take a look at the state of affairs for the past few weeks on this forum.</p>
<p>For the past two weeks, some users has been posting a lot of questions, a lot of them self-answered. This ...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/278980Are questions about electronics market trends on-topic?Lundinhttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/81762020-11-05T14:50:59Z2021-07-31T17:27:48Z<p>I'm curious about the market trend of certain kind of components (specifically, 0603 ceramic capacitors) and if I should start worrying about these getting phased out. I started to write a quest...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/282772Can a paper be a tutorial or textbook-like?Lorenzo Donatihttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/529912021-07-24T11:16:26Z2021-07-26T13:34:05Z<p>Although I joined Codidact from the beginning, I was never truly active and lost track of the development of the system and this site in particular.</p>
<p>I've read the help and the "paper" ca...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/282773What are the guidelines for porting one's answers from ElectricalEngineering.SE, if any?Lorenzo Donatihttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/529912021-07-24T14:12:11Z2021-07-26T13:20:09Z<p>I've noticed that in the edit account section there is a (inactive) link to one's content on a StackExchange site.</p>
<p>This made me wonder if it is appropriate to transfer some content from ...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/280564How about a new section for code reviews?aditya98https://electrical.codidact.com/users/530052021-01-23T14:19:47Z2021-07-25T10:21:31Z<p>I just felt like what if we have a separate section for code reviews. This section is strictly meant for code reviews in domains like DSP, VLSI( for instance "Verilog" programming) ,Em...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/282152Questions about the style of "Papers"leventovhttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/540202021-06-11T06:53:57Z2021-06-11T14:24:07Z<p>This page: <a href="https://electrical.codidact.com/help/papers">https://electrical.codidact.com/help/papers</a> says:</p>
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<p>A paper is more than just a few paragraphs, and more ...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/278834Why are posts that users clearly approve of being closed?Kranulishttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/530422020-10-27T16:26:55Z2021-03-31T19:23:13Z<p>One of the most annoying things about stackexchange has always been the borderline fanatic post closing or duplicate marking. Another question in meta was posed some time ago about the added val...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/280357What should rep gain/loss be on Papers?Olin Lathrophttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/363962021-01-07T16:26:10Z2021-01-12T19:46:25Z<p>The Codidact team has recently informed us that it is now possible to have different rep bumps on different post types. See this <a href="https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/276570">new answe...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/280137is this too obvious for a post?Pete Whttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/536612020-12-28T16:02:08Z2020-12-28T21:29:59Z<p>I recently realized something blindingly obvious that I'd overlooked for a few years - that I can generate a servicable PWM triangle wave from a micro by using two PWM outputs with timers set to...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/280040User's reputation score not displaying on top ribbonAndy akahttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/529872020-12-20T14:32:19Z2020-12-21T02:30:43Z<p>It appears that a user's reputation score has disappeared from the top ribbon at the side of the user's login avatar/picture. Is this an intentional thing?</p>
<!-- g: js, mdit -->https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/279860I can not upload picturesCircuit fantasisthttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/534902020-12-14T21:48:00Z2020-12-15T14:12:46Z<p>I can not upload pictures when I start a new answer to a question (I have no problem when I edit an old answer). When I click the "insert picture" button, nothing happens and I do not ...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/279784Can I ask about debugging/fixing a broken product?dustytrashhttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/81702020-12-09T18:04:03Z2020-12-10T22:35:22Z<p>I've taken a part a broken roomba down to the PCB. I can connect the PCB directly to the battery and connect the charging cable & charger to the PCB.</p>
<p>I'm wondering if I could post ab...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/279554Paper disappeared - and my rating as wellMichaël Bensimhounhttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/536122020-11-29T11:10:14Z2020-11-29T18:22:28Z<p>Strange things occurring in the "papers" category: my paper entitled "the capacitance multiplier revisited" has disappeared, and my vote rating has been erased. Any insight ?...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/279489Are questions about proper cable repair on-topic?Martinhttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/536222020-11-24T09:36:22Z2020-11-24T16:25:55Z<p>Would a question about cabling repair be on-topic? My main focus would be to learn about the proper workmanship to do a professional, not just makeshift, repair on an automotive sensor cable.</p...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/279250Homework questions / "ask an engineer".Lundinhttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/81762020-11-16T15:18:26Z2020-11-17T19:45:27Z<p>Our <a href="https://electrical.codidact.com/help/topics">on-topic page</a> currently lists homework questions as mostly off-topic, in the following manner:</p>
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<p>No interest in ...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/279099Please find other ways to hide inloved questions that prompt closeKalleMPhttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/81142020-11-12T21:15:03Z2020-11-17T15:08:46Z<p>I have not been present in the hard and very productive work performed by what must now be a pretty spectacular team for the last 10 months.</p>
<p>Having returned and found my cherished Electr...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/279280Creating an additional "user"coquelicothttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/531102020-11-17T07:19:55Z2020-11-17T13:57:15Z<p>That may seem a pointless question, but life has taught me to be careful and to ask before any "somewhat unusual" steps.
Also, despite it could be a Codidact question, I think it is a...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/278793Name of the OP in the list of questionscoquelicothttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/531102020-10-25T06:37:25Z2020-11-10T03:55:25Z<p>Is it possible to add the name of the OP near each question inside the question list?</p>
<p>Only the name of the "last activity" person appears there. For me, that would help.</p>
<...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/278819Can recommended features questions be asked?aditya98https://electrical.codidact.com/users/530052020-10-26T16:38:15Z2020-10-26T17:27:14Z<p>I am planning to buy an oscilloscope and my applications can be some smps projects, microcontroller based projects,hobbyist projects but not heavy industrial applications.Can I ask questions lik...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/278579Can I ask a question to which I have a possible answer?Circuit fantasisthttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/534902020-10-17T19:19:38Z2020-10-20T10:14:27Z<p>For many years I have been working on unraveling the basic ideas behind famous circuit solutions. Thus I gradually managed to accumulate a collection of circuit principles and clever tricks. I h...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/278136Are BOM cost optimization questions on-topic?Lundinhttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/81762020-09-18T14:04:45Z2020-09-22T13:33:08Z<p>Are BOM/PCB assembly cost cost optimization questions on-topic here?</p>
<p>I can see how chasing down specific parts, prices and vendors ought to be off-topic, so I don't mean outright shopping...https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/277912Getting rid of "company tags" early on Lundinhttps://electrical.codidact.com/users/81762020-09-04T07:06:33Z2020-09-04T07:06:52Z<p>I just made a <a href="https://software.codidact.com/questions/277911">post</a> about using "company tags" over at Software Development:</p>
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<p>We know from SO that compan...