Questions tagged [discussion]
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Deprecation of voltage tags?
I tried looking through this meta and didn't find any discussion on this. I keep an eye on the activity feed, and I have noticed a large number of posts being edited by @Null to remove tags such as &...
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Module Usage Questions
Do we have a set of criteria for what constitutes an acceptably detailed "module" question? I've been seeing - or perhaps noticing - more questions along the lines of "I bought a DC-DC ...
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Congratulations to our 1st 500k rep user!
Our highest-rep user Andyaka has just hit 500k! (500,001 as of writing this) Wow! Huge congrats on hitting such a massive milestone. Your answers have helped many people and really set the bar high ...
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Are missing frameworks (or other incomplete background knowledge) sufficient reason to close a question?
And should such questions, categorically, and/or as a rule, be closed? (More pertinent: can such questions: (a) be consistently and objectively identified? (b) ...By the community? These are also ...
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Can moderators accept an answer made by the original poster?
I have seen, more often than I care to, questions bumped by the community bot that have answers made by the original poster. Here is an example, but I don't mean to focus on this particular question. ...
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Are questions about simulations for an electrical structure off topic?
I have a system that I’m trying to model — specifically, a simulation involving current in wires and the resulting magnetic field. With my knowledge as a second-year student, I’m not sure how to ...
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Is use of CircuitLab supposed to be privileged to users with 11 or more reputation
In PIR Motion Sensor and BASYS 3 FPGA Connection I suggested that a new user, who had only a reputation of 1, could use the built-in CircuitLab schematic editor in the post editor. However, the user ...
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Questions where people seem or claim to have no experience in electrics and yet ask for things which can lead to fire/shock
What to do if the best advice to the person asking should be: let another person handle it? e.g.Need 600 watts from DC battery Should we give advice in combining parts which can deliver peaks currents ...
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