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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Has my question been closed as lacking "focus" when it is actually merely difficult to answer?
Regarding:
What actually causes BER in digital electronic circuits such as PCBs and can it be mitigated with additional capacitance?
I was surprised to find that it has been closed for lacking "...
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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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Are questions about using an oscilloscope on topic?
A reminder¹: Questions on how to use an oscilloscope is on topic on a QA website for electrical engineering professionals, students, and enthusiasts.
There is a Vote-to-Close reason that looks ...
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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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Should questions based on an incorrect premise be edited to correct the premise?
I saw this question today:
Identifying common-mode choke
The original question was "Identifying inductor", and talked a lot about where this so-called inductor came from and what happened, ...
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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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Why was answer deleted?? Is community bot running amok?
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/752864/11684 was deleted by the community bot as spam or offensive.
There's no spam, and the answer is clearly not offensive.
Suggest restoring the answer to ...
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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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Appeal against closing of my Question
I have a question about my Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange post: How to detect stability of rotation (measured by deviation from the axis) of a spinning object?
The question was first closed ...
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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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Problem with editing and saving CircuitLab schematics
I have the following problem which has become frequent lately and is driving me crazy.
When I am editing a schematic, finally I want to save it, but the screen dims and the following message appears:
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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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Is this a forum for the Micro-Cap SPICE Simulator? This is a valid question
Is this a forum for the Micro-Cap SPICE Simulator? This is a valid question.
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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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