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<p>The tags <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/electrical" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'electrical'" rel="tag">electrical</a> and <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/electricity" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'electri... | 7390 | 2021-03-04T12:39:34.290 | |support| | <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fvri9.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fvri9.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
<p>If it is not allowed, then why is it an option to have?</p>
| Why do we have an electricity tag if one can't use it? |
<p>Stack Exchange encourages editing, there are a few badges that encourage this behavior and is welcome as long as it is improving the post. Secondly they are not really "your posts" once you post they are released under the creative commons license. Also you should use standard grammar and understand that t... | 7394 | 2021-03-10T03:19:54.453 | |discussion| | <p>I don't post many questions, but the few that I have --- somebody is coming in and making VERY MINOR edits.</p>
<p>I mean like picayune grammatical or punctuation changes. Trivial stuff. Example -- I put 3 "???" at the end of sentence, for dramatic effect I guess. Big deal. This was edited to a single... | Why is somebody editing my questions? |
<p>It doesn't seem like the close/vote system really adequately can deal with this situation, and the delete queue is next to worthless.</p>
<p>Perhaps the most effective workaround would be to flag such posts as spam??</p>
<p>By way of explanation, my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong), is that repeated spam flag... | 7400 | 2021-03-10T22:40:45.717 | |discussion|homework| | <p>There have been a few users that have continually posted answers to homework questions. This has been discussed <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7313/homework-answers-on-demand">here</a>. I think the best course of action is to allow the community to downvote these types of answers. What... | What does the community think about homework answers? |
<p>Done, the tags have been merged</p>
| 7405 | 2021-03-11T21:26:14.940 | |discussion|tags| | <p>The <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/transfer" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'transfer'" rel="tag">transfer</a> tag currently has no wiki guidance and is generally used on questions for one of two purposes:</p>
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<li>Questions about transfer functions, in whi... | What should the [transfer] tag be used for? |
<p>All done, exactly as you suggested. I've put the correctly-spelled tag on that question and deleted the wrongly-spelled tag (so I don't believe it exists any more).</p>
<p>Thanks for the tidy up.</p>
| 7411 | 2021-03-15T13:11:46.643 | |support|tag-cleanup| | <p>I noticed the other day that there is a <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/operational-amplifer" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'operational-amplifer'" rel="tag">operational-amplifer</a> tag which has "amplifier" misspelled (it is missing an "i'). I'... | Would a moderator remove the misspelled [operational-amplifer] tag from a locked post? |
<p>You did <strong>not</strong> ask about general requirements or uses of voltage stabilizers. Your question was very clearly focused on one specific consumer product that you were considering: should I "buy <strong>this</strong> voltage stabilizer".</p>
<p>Any time a question asks about whether a <strong>spe... | 7433 | 2021-04-13T09:07:32.303 | |discussion| | <p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/559880/does-it-make-sense-to-buy-this-voltage-stabilizer-for-this-air-conditioner">Does it make sense to buy this voltage stabilizer for this air conditioner?</a></p>
<p>I really don't think it's not about electrical engineering. I can't find any other suitabl... | Why this question is off topic and how to make it on topic? |
<p>As far as I can tell, there aren't any new questions with this tag in the months since it was removed - if that's not the case, please let me know. Considering that, I don't see a reason for this tag to be blocked from re-creation. In general, we only block tags that have been burninated and returned more than once.... | 7437 | 2021-04-22T03:07:27.193 | |discussion|tag-cleanup|tag-blacklist-request| | <p>The <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/channel" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'channel'" rel="tag">channel</a> tag is a useless meta-tag: this tag does not add any useful meaning by itself, it requires other tags to provide context. That's not how our tags are sup... | block the [channel] tag |
<p>This is live.</p>
<p>I've reviewed the request and your recent history and I can definitely see that this will likely benefit the site. Thanks for your patience while we got to the place we could make this change.</p>
<p>To determine whether to make this change, I used a few queries - firstly, I like to see what per... | 7453 | 2021-05-05T15:59:19.750 | |discussion|feature-request|status-completed|vote-to-close| | <p>I often feel that questions linger too long before being closed, collecting answers making it difficult to edit a closed question. I would like EE.SE to take part in the recent site-wide "three-vote close" experiment. The main meta post can explain it better than I can:</p>
<p><a href="https://meta.stackex... | I'd like us to participate in the three-vote close experiment |
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<p>I guess my main concern is that I don't want anyone to think I am somehow behind this.</p>
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<p>I will be offline soon as it's past end of day here. I just wanted to put your mind at rest: I've done a quick review of your account and I am 100% sure that you are <strong>not</strong> doing any... | 7458 | 2021-05-08T03:49:54.527 | |support| | <p>There is strange voting activity going on on my answers on EESE. Yesterday in a short span of time, I got about 150 points due to upvotes on a variety of answers, many of which were not very new.</p>
<p>Then today, the serial voting was reversed, taking away 150 points. Now again today it seems that I have another b... | Strange voting activity on my answers |
<p>There is no ban on the meta account, there is on you EE.SE account. You'll have to improve the quality of your existing questions or wait until the ban wears off.</p>
<p>You can post questions on the main site, make sure they are on-topic:<br />
<a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic">https://e... | 7482 | 2021-06-10T14:52:58.730 | |discussion| | <p>Good morning.</p>
<p>Could you give some clues so I can improve my questions, to get off my EE.SE ban? I've read some articles in help further I am trying my best.</p>
| Some clues to improve my EE.SE questions? |
<p>I'd try on <a href="https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/15/electrical-engineering">chat</a>. I don't think it would be well-received on the main site. For example, searching for <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/search?q=engineer+skill+is%3Aquestion"><code>engineer skill is:question</code></a> will sho... | 7484 | 2021-06-13T14:01:00.390 | |discussion|scope| | <p>In hardware engineering, there are many roles: for example PCB Design engineer, FPGA engineer etc.</p>
<p>Can we ask questions like:</p>
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<li>What are the roles and responsibilities of a FPGA engineer?</li>
<li>What are the skills required for a PCB engineer?</li>
</ul>
<p>on Electrical Engineering Stack Exchang... | On which site can I ask questions on electronic engineering roles? |
<p>It's just a pointless philosophical question that has nothing to do with designing electronics and has absolutely no practical value. You even write in your own answer:</p>
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<p>The question you ask is beyond electrical engineering and even beyond Physics. It falls into Metaphysics and philosophy.</p>
</b... | 7492 | 2021-07-03T06:07:35.903 | |discussion| | <p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/573608/238188">Analog Is Digital?</a>
Seems like a perfectly reasonable question to me, and I can't see what is opinion based about it. It might be true that it may not have an accurate answer at the moment.</p>
<p>The idea of the question is representing an analog si... | How is this question "Analog is Digital " opinion based? |
<p>My view is no, such a question would not be on-topic here.</p>
<p>IMHO that is a general computer science question and too far from the core on-topic subjects for this site. It would be better suited to Computer Science.SE or Stack Overflow. In fact, I just checked and see that you have already <a href="https://cs.s... | 7513 | 2021-07-22T12:51:18.290 | |discussion| | <p>I would like to ask a question on what binary compatibility means, and if there is any definition for that .</p>
<p>Will this question be on-topic?</p>
| Can I ask a question on binary compatibility? |
<p>For everyone raising a new question I'd add a "gate" to getting the question posted on the site. That "gate" would be something like this: -</p>
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<p><strong>"Is your question about homework?"</strong></p>
<p><strong>"Have you fully described where you are stuck?"</... | 7520 | 2021-07-28T07:48:38.367 | |discussion|feature-request|homework|guidelines| | <p>I've just VTC a 'homework with no attempt' <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/577205/find-the-value-of-rl-for-maximum-power-transfer-and-the-maximum-power-that-can-b">question</a>, and another user has added a link to the <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/tour">Tour</a>, perhaps th... | Homework questions, and the Tour guidance |
<p>If you comment on a question the OP is always automatically notified and the OP's name is NOT added as a link in your comment.</p>
<p>The same applies if you add a comment to an answer and attempt to notify the answer's writer.</p>
<p>If you comment on a question or answer and cite a person who is involved in the co... | 8522 | 2021-07-29T06:57:12.747 | |support|tagging| | <p>I had this doubt from the start. When I try to tag some people in my comment , their name is suggested to me on the top left. But occasionally this is not the case, they dont get suggested. And in that situation I just type the first name , do they get notified if I do that ?</p>
| At times I am unable to see the name of the person I am tagging but then I just type his name. Is he/she actually getting tagged? |
<p>Somewhat contrary to what Sam advises, I have on occasion improved an answer that was mainly link only when it was clear that the link was extremely useful and the answer was in danger of being VTC'd. This usually involves precising some material from the linked site with maybe some added comment.</p>
<p>This usuall... | 8537 | 2021-09-01T00:18:11.947 | |discussion|editing| | <p>To what extent is editing answers allowable? There is an answer to a question that is almost a link-only answer, but it is a pretty good link.</p>
<p>Would it be OK for me to expand the answer by incorporating more information from the link? If so, how long should I wait after commenting on the answer before making ... | Editing Answers |
<p>If you can phrase it as a design question it's acceptable.<br />
I personally find the restriction on asking genuine design questions which have good technical content and instructional value to be an excessive limitation on what could be useful questions. The aim is to avoid generic "where can I buy an xxx&quo... | 8540 | 2021-09-05T21:06:22.280 | |discussion|asking-questions|on-topic| | <p>I am looking for an IC with a very specific set of requirements; can I ask about it here?</p>
<p>Technically it's a product recommendation question and, while I don't know this site well, I'm just assuming it's got a similar policy to other SE sites (i.e.: nope).</p>
<p>However, assuming that's the case, I feel like... | Looking for ICs; can I ask here? |
<p>I stumbled across this same situation and found this discussion, so for the past few days I've been retagging questions using <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pads" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'pads'" rel="tag">pads</a>. This is now complete so we can block <a... | 8542 | 2021-09-06T08:54:29.650 | |discussion|support|tags| | <p>I've just noticed that <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pads" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'pads'" rel="tag">pads</a></p>
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<p>PADS is a CAD PCB editor produced by Mentor Graphics</p>
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<p>and <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.co... | tags: PADS and mentor-pads: same tag, not linked |
<p>Sorry for the delay on this one.</p>
<p>To answer your question, <strong>yes</strong>, I have found where I could change the syntax highlighter for the <code>system-verilog</code> tag (currently none), to match the <code>verilog</code> tag highlighting.</p>
<p>However as kindly explained in <a href="https://electron... | 8549 | 2021-09-15T22:56:24.513 | |feature-request|syntax-highlighting| | <p>Please add the same syntax highlighting as the <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/verilog" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'verilog'" rel="tag">verilog</a> tag to the <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/system-verilog" class="post-tag" ti... | Add syntax highlighting for the system-verilog tag |
<p>This has been fixed. More details (and haiku) <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/371004/51">on MSE</a>.</p>
| 8556 | 2021-10-13T12:07:03.163 | |bug|status-completed| | <p>I just got my first "Teacher" medal on EE. It's displayed in my profile overview under newest badges. If I click on it, it says it was awared for. <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/1/arduino-stepper-motor">Arduino Stepper Motor</a></p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/DrxZq.png"... | Medal bug: Linking to wrong question |
<p><strong>To summarize,</strong> I propose six master tags: <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/common-emitter" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'common-emitter'" rel="tag">common-emitter</a>, <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/common-collec... | 8558 | 2021-10-14T14:40:49.867 | |discussion|tags|tag-synonyms| | <p>I recently fixed the tags on a <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/516372/51760">question about common source vs. common drain topologies</a>, and I created <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/common-drain" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'common-drain'"... | Make [common-drain] and [source-follower] synonyms, and [common-collector] and [emitter-follower] synonyms? |
<p>Thanks for spotting this. As you said, it's clearly just a misspelling and not something that we need to consider with a full discussion, waiting for voting etc. I've replaced it with the correctly-spelled version of <code>verilog</code> on that question, as you suggested.</p>
<p>My reading of the mod documents on t... | 8585 | 2021-11-26T11:46:15.510 | |feature-request|tags|tag-blacklist-request| | <p>Would a Moderator please delete the misspelled <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/verliog" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'verliog'" rel="tag">verliog</a> tag?</p>
<p>There is only one question with this tag: <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions... | Would a Moderator delete the misspelled [verliog] tag? |
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<p>Is Stack Exchange an appropriate forum to ask whether this kind of lead time is normal for a specific parts supplier?</p>
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<p>Hi, Thanks for asking. However, I would say <strong>no</strong>, that question wouldn't be on-topic here.</p>
<ul>
<li>It's not a <em>technical</em> question.</li>
<... | 8589 | 2021-12-12T04:39:43.503 | |discussion| | <p>I placed an order from a major brand-name electronics component supplier for spare parts and accessories from their online store (not a reseller) and it's been almost a month and it is still "processing".</p>
<p>I can call them and certainly ask for the status of my order but what I don't know is how commo... | Is it appropriate to ask a question regarding processing time for a major electronics component supplier? |
<p>The question was closed for the wrong reason. It <em>is</em> on-topic here, but should be closed because of the following problems:</p>
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<p>the temperature is monitored by a 2-wire thermistor as far as I can tell...</p>
<p>I considered monitoring it in parallel, adding my own micro controller, and a 433M... | 8591 | 2021-12-13T23:38:11.733 | |discussion| | <p>According to the help center: <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic</a></p>
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<p>… if your question …</p>
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<p>… is not about …</p>
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<p>consumer electronics such as media players,... | Clarification of question topic - Am I reading the on-topic help page wrong? |
<p>I'm not a moderator, just a "concerned citizen". The problem with your schematic has nothing to do with formats, but that it was poorly drawn by a novice who is unaware of industry standards and conventions for how to draw proper schematics. The link I gave you, <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.c... | 9601 | 2022-01-05T03:19:24.557 | |feature-request| | <p>Previously, I and my workmate have a hard time to recreate board schematic on Electronics Stack Exchange because it can't simply import our schematic from Autodesk Eagle. Then we ditched it and upload as screenshot from Eagle because it won't work as we expected.</p>
<p>We wonder if it technically possible to import... | Feature Request: Import Board Schematic from Software like Eagle to Electronics Stack Exchange |
<p>As requested and discussed in comments, I've merged [diff-amp] into the master tag [differential-amplifier] with [diff-amp] being a synonym.</p>
| 9605 | 2022-01-20T00:30:53.067 | |discussion|tags|tag-cleanup|tag-synonyms| | <p>We have both <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/differential-amplifier" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'differential-amplifier'" rel="tag">differential-amplifier</a> and <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diff-amp" class="post-tag" titl... | Make [diff-amp] a synonym of [differential-amplifier]? |
<p><strong>Summary</strong>: Trying to understand why an OP does X or Y can't be answered with certainty, unless we ask that OP (and we might not be able to believe their reply - they might tell us what they think we want to hear, not their actual reasons).</p>
<p>I agree that answers should not be <a href="https://met... | 9622 | 2022-03-14T10:18:57.917 | |discussion|reputation|accepted-answer| | <p>First of all, if this is already asked or mentioned somewhere in EE.SE Meta please forgive me, and notify me with the original link so that I can delete this.</p>
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<p>This is one really strange and, sort of annoying thing that I noticed. Here's the thing:</p>
<p>A new question appears. And a member with lower ... | Accepting an answer based on the reputation of its sender/poster |
<p><strong>Note to other site members:</strong> There was excessive disruption, argument and rudeness in comments that have since been deleted (and elsewhere) i.e. you cannot now see the whole picture.</p>
<p>I knew that my actions in this case were quite likely to result in a question on Meta, and you have done that, ... | 9625 | 2022-03-26T12:39:56.787 | |discussion|closed-questions| | <p>Reference this question: <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/613254/op-amp-based-virtual-ground-with-bjt-buffer?noredirect=1#comment1617452_613254">Op-amp based virtual ground with BJT buffer</a>.</p>
<p>This Q and A session has been locked for 7 days: -</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com... | Is it the OP's fault his question is "locked-out" for 7 days due to arguments in answers |
<p>The message you got points you to <a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/271542/why-wont-the-system-allow-me-to-ask-questions-for-several-days/271543#271543">this post</a> that explains how this block works, and why it exists. You can also read more about it <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/... | 9650 | 2022-05-09T20:36:27.970 | |support|status-bydesign|asking-questions| | <p>I went to ask a new question on the main EE site, but SE gave me the standard warning, "You have reached your question limit. It looks like you might need a break - take a breather and come back soon!" that it gives before a question ban.</p>
<p>It says that my recent questions were poorly received, but fr... | Why am I getting a "You've reached your question limit. [...] you might need a break" message, when my questions have been well-received? |
<p>After four months and more that 250 views, I find it very telling that NOBODY on this META has found a <em>specific</em> reason good enough for that question to be closed.
It's not that the people in here have reached the conclusion that, no maybe it was an error of judgement and it shouldn't have been closed. It se... | 9657 | 2022-05-12T01:19:12.833 | |discussion|close-reasons|deleted-answers| | <p>Since the medium length question was apparently too complex and the short question wasn't apparently clear enough, I will try to rewrite the question about the closing in a more answerable form, motivating my choices.
The part about why it was deleted was mostly cleared by Russel McMahon.</p>
<p><strong>Reason to re... | Why was this question closed (and then deleted)? |
<p>To <em>specifically</em> reach page 348:<br />
<a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/unanswered/tagged/?page=348&tab=votes">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/unanswered/tagged/?page=348&tab=votes</a></p>
<p>Simply replace the number following <em>page=</em> in the URL.</p>
| 9664 | 2022-05-24T20:25:36.480 | |feature-request| | <p>How can I reach e.g. page 348 of this endless list with less than 50 clicks?
When I read these things some pages per day, I can't seek to the last page or range I left some days before.</p>
| Browsing unanswered questions, how to scroll efficiently |
<p>Here is a way:</p>
<p>Create the initial schematic the usual way. Do you stuff on CircuitLab, and when the first version is done, click "Save and Insert". That makes you go back to EE.SE, and there is now some markup in your answer text that looks like this:</p>
<pre><code><!-- Begin schematic: In order... | 9688 | 2022-06-28T05:38:00.183 | |support| | <p>Sometimes I want to use two or more circuit diagrams in one post, which are only slight variations of each other.</p>
<p>Is it possible to "continue" an existing schematic and then insert it as a new separate schematic ?</p>
| How to use several similar CircuitLab schematics in one post without redrawing the whole diagram? |
<p>As commented, there is nothing we can do directly here. Each SE site has its own mods and even as a mod <em>here</em>, I cannot see any details over <em>there</em>.</p>
<p>I have contacted the mods over there and they are currently investigating.</p>
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<p>Update:</p>
<p>The suspension has kindly been removed by... | 9690 | 2022-07-05T05:40:37.957 | |bug| | <p>I wanted to join the Statistics Stack Exchange, so I did join the community, but as soon as I did, I was put in the penalty box there. Of course, once in the penalty box, I'm a non-citizen and can't even ask the Meta there what's going on. Since I have put in the most work here, I hope that posting here is not a pro... | Why am I in the Penalty Box when I just joined (sorry posting here, temp. non-citizen can't post where it's needed) |
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<p>If this was moderated, could a moderator indicate why this action was taken?</p>
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<p>I've checked your comments on that question. As of now, no comments on that topic (by anyone) were deleted, by a moderator or by its author. A few were edited by their authors, within the usual 5-minute win... | 9705 | 2022-07-19T23:56:02.343 | |discussion|moderation|comments| | <p>In, <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/627710/dc-dc-boost-converter-theory-principle-testing#comment1659931_627710">DC-DC boost converter theory / principle / testing</a>, I had a comment about something OP mentioned that I found concerning, regarding operating with a live battery; at least, I ... | Comments edited regarding safety? |
<p>If JJM and dim voted to reopen that would be a step in the right direction. So far it has only one reopen vote.</p>
<p>As a moderator I'd consider reopening it but as another moderator was one of the two VTCs I'll leave it for now.</p>
<p>I understand both sides of this - possibly editing to somewhat more emphasise ... | 9722 | 2022-09-21T13:34:30.890 | |discussion|closed-questions|specific-question| | <p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/635384/ups-vs-portable-power-station-capacity-ratings">My question</a> has been closed on the grounds of "Questions on the use of electronic devices are off-topic as this site is intended specifically for questions on electronics design." Whoever clo... | Reason for question closure unfounded |
<p>This is a good idea. I've set the language for the tag.</p>
| 9724 | 2022-09-21T14:55:53.607 | |feature-request|status-completed|syntax-highlighting| | <p>Please add syntax highlighting to the <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/matlab" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'matlab'" aria-label="show questions tagged 'matlab'" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="matlab-container">matlab</a> tag.</p>
<p>From <a href="https://m... | Add syntax highlighting for the matlab tag |
<p>Since no one has objected, I've merged "cell-battery" into <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batteries" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'batteries'" aria-label="show questions tagged 'batteries'" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="batteries-container">bat... | 9729 | 2022-10-06T18:00:06.720 | |discussion|tag-cleanup| | <p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cell-battery" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'cell-battery'" aria-label="show questions tagged 'cell-battery'" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="cell-battery-container">cell-battery</a> appears on 285 questions but has no tag wik... | Merge [batteries] and [cell-battery] tags? |
<p>There has been no response other than a positive score to the question so I've made "mesh" a synonym of <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mesh-analysis" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'mesh-analysis'" aria-label="show questions tagged 'mesh-analysis&... | 9733 | 2022-10-12T15:38:00.770 | |discussion|tags|tag-synonyms| | <p>We had a tag called "mesh" but it had no tag wiki. I reviewed all 80 questions it was on and found that 75 of them referred to mesh analysis. Consequently, I removed "mesh" from the 5 questions that were not about mesh analysis, renamed the tag to <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/qu... | Make "mesh" a synonym of the "mesh-analysis" tag? |
<p>I guess a question formulated like this can still a bit too open-ended, unless the circuit is <em>very</em> simple (like no more than 4-5 components, and a single, very simple task).</p>
<p>As soon as the circuits is a bit more complex than this, it would certainly make it easier to guide the readers and formulate t... | 9736 | 2022-10-18T17:57:48.767 | |discussion| | <p>I understand that open-ended design review questions are generally discouraged.</p>
<p>However, I'm designing my first mains powered device and was wondering if constrained design review questions such as "Are there any glaring safety issues with this circuit" on topic?</p>
<p>Assuming the circuit in quest... | Are "Is My Circuit Safe" questions on-topic? |
<p>I consider that either may be appropriate depending on which aspects are being asked about. For example Lithium Ion battery questions are common on this site, with the cell largely (but not totally) being treated as a black-box with certain defined characteristics. If the question related to chemistry, anode or cath... | 9754 | 2022-11-05T15:26:01.657 | |discussion| | <p>On occasion, I have questions about generating electricity, which would clearly make these sort of questions applicable for this SE. On the other hand, some of the questions I have involve generating electricity using fuel cells, which may make questions more applicable for the chemistry SE. Which site would be more... | Is this SE an appropriate site to ask questions about fuel cells? |
<p>Thanks for bringing this to our attention.</p>
<p>I merged the tag into <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/differential-amplifier" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'differential-amplifier'" aria-label="show questions tagged 'differential-amplifier'" rel="tag"... | 9762 | 2022-11-25T18:22:18.357 | |support|status-completed|tags| | <p>Please could the tag <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/differiential-pair" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'differiential-pair'" aria-label="show questions tagged 'differiential-pair'" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="differiential-pair-container">differiential-p... | Request for tag spelling correction: [differiential-pair] [sic] |
<p>The site already has a comments section, and so having two areas to have discussion would be redundant. This would need to be site wide and site wide features are decided by stack exchange.</p>
| 9765 | 2022-11-30T17:28:27.617 | |feature-request| | <p>I want to suggest to add a Discussion Tab in the side panel of each question. I think it will help users to discuss about the topic with out interfering with in the comments and share their thought about the topic. As it is Electrical Engineering forum such tab might be helpful for multiple reason. Beginners would g... | Discussion Tab in the side panel of each question |
<p>If the issue is supposed to be between a user and a mod, then wouldn't specifying that a suspension is because of plagiarism on the user's profile be a violation of that idea??</p>
| 9774 | 2022-12-16T02:06:09.617 | |discussion|moderation| | <p>If a user is suspended for plagiarism, is it possible for non-moderators to view the plagiarism? If not should it be possible? It seems that this would be a good idea from the perspective of transparency. As far as reputational damage goes, it seems that being suspended for plagiarism already constitutes reputationa... | Suspension for Plagiarism |
<p>Because your reputation has recently shot up this month from 111 to 666 (as of now) that's expected because you have over 3 x 200 reputation so you've become eligible for three badges. You've now been a member six years so you could get another three fairly quickly if it increases to 1200. The following answer expla... | 9782 | 2022-12-28T23:44:40.477 | |bug| | <p>I'm not sure if this is intended behaviour or a bug, but this notification has come up three times this week. I've definitely only earned 200 reputation in one calendar year (or, at best, in two separate 365-day periods, one of which just began).</p>
<p>It seems to just award me this badge, both on the main SE and o... | 'Yearling' badge awarded three times in five days |
<p>This site isn't for asking questions about consumer devices, this site is more geared toward questions that are about the design of such devices. I'm not sure which site would be best, you can go to any site and then help and on topic</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic">https://elect... | 9790 | 2023-01-06T17:13:52.463 | |support| | <p>Title has my question:</p>
<p>Is this the right group to ask questions about uninterruptible power supplies?</p>
<p>I found " <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5279/is-a-question-asking-for-specific-power-consumption-okay%22">https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5279/... | Is this the right group to ask questions about uninterruptible power supplies? |
<p>A quick look at the list of questions migrated to DIY (not available to all users) suggests that it is a decent migration candidate: DIY is the migration target a significant number of the questions migrated from this site, and they seem to be generally accepted by DIY. It might be a good idea to add DIY as a migrat... | 9800 | 2023-01-11T20:41:20.977 | |discussion|migration| | <p>I know this topic has been oft repeated, but I find it silly that there exist only options to migrate questions to Meta or SuperUser. <em>Really?!</em> The vast majority of questions I see migrated seem to go to <strong>diy</strong>.stackexchange.com or <strong>mechanics</strong>.stackexchange.com Of course I'm awar... | Can we add the option to migrate questions to DIY? |
<p>I have not seen this until now.<br />
Long experience has led me to (strongly :-) ) believe that I am better than most people at understanding technical questions which are obscurely put and / or which contain inadequate information.</p>
<p>I have not met systems as described in the question.<br />
The terms are mea... | 9804 | 2023-01-23T16:54:56.263 | |discussion| | <p>Question in question: <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/650949/powering-home-thermostat-using-standard-four-wire-connection">Powering home thermostat using standard four-wire connection</a></p>
<p>This is a question about building a thermostat to work with a standard home HVAC communication pr... | Unclear why question about thermostats remains closed |
<p>There are (unusual) reasons which I cannot discuss publicly, sorry. (Moderator work is ongoing in the background...)</p>
| 9807 | 2023-01-26T16:05:22.447 | |discussion|support|moderation| | <p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/651563/can-a-50mm2-cable-handle-350-amps">This Question: "Can a 50mm2 cable handle 350 amps?"</a> has been locked for 7 days.</p>
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<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/1Cyuhm.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur... | Another strangely "Locked" question |
<p>In general what you're proposing is OK but don't do it as a screenshot, instead copy the comment(s) as text to the answer and give credit to the person that wrote it with a link to their profile. It's always better to post anything that can be text that way so that search engines index it.</p>
<p>I'm not sure exactl... | 9810 | 2023-01-29T10:40:25.707 | |support|answers|comments| | <p>I posted a question about a CPU transistor and finally a member has answered it, but in the comment section. I asked him to put that in an answer so that every one can benefit from the information, but he/she didn't reply. Can I screenshot his/her comment with his/her pseudo and put it in the answer?</p>
| Can I answer my question with a comment screenshot? |
<p>I didn't down vote any of your questions (or answers,) but I can see why you might not have gotten any upvotes:</p>
<ol>
<li>Language problems. It looks to me like English is not your native language. You use odd expressions for common things (shortcut instead of short circuit, for example.) Not using the common E... | 9812 | 2023-01-30T14:07:21.203 | |discussion|support|editing| | <p>Two days ago I posted a question and today I am surprised that I can't post again.</p>
<p>In this five years, only one question was downvoted, but its ok.<br />
So I am asking you to help me out to put things right, you can visit my questions and tell me what must be edited thank you.</p>
| What should I edit in my previous questions? |
<p>I agree that it isn't opinion-based, but part of it is off-topic.</p>
<p>On-topic: a question similar to "what areas of EE overlap with quantum computing?" This is for sure a question about electrical engineering.</p>
<p>Off-topic: a question similar to "is anyone doing research on topic x?" Whic... | 9814 | 2023-01-31T17:02:10.623 | |discussion|closed-questions| | <p>Why is <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/652187/are-quantum-computing-and-quantum-information-ee-subjects-at-this-point">this question</a> closed?</p>
<p>I think the question could be better worded, sure. But the gist is asking about what areas of EE might overlap with Quantum computing.</p>
<... | I disagree that this question is opinion based |
<p>Yes, this tag adds no value so it should be removed. The other tags on the existing questions are sufficient.</p>
| 9816 | 2023-02-09T08:27:38.467 | |discussion|tags| | <p>There are four <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/group">questions tagged [group]</a>, used in three different contexts:</p>
<ul>
<li>group delay:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/427824/difficulty-understanding-group-delay-concept">Difficulty understandi... | Should the 'group' tag be removed? |
<p>I agree, this tag serves no purpose and should be cleaned up.</p>
| 9825 | 2023-03-05T23:23:13.660 | |discussion|tag-cleanup| | <p>There is no usage for the <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/custom" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'custom'" aria-label="show questions tagged 'custom'" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-custom-tooltip-container">custom</a> tag, and it doesn't seem to add any... | Remove all [tag:custom]-isation |
<p>In this Meta question, what you said about <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/659121/is-there-any-scientific-proof-that-passive-cell-balancing-can-improve-the-life-o">your question on the main site</a> is: "This is clearly a technical inquiry asking for an explanation"</p>
<p>But your... | 9829 | 2023-03-23T10:03:46.767 | |discussion|closed-questions| | <p>I'm referring to my own question:</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/659121/is-there-any-scientific-proof-that-passive-cell-balancing-can-improve-the-life-o">Is there any scientific proof that passive cell balancing can improve the life of a battery pack?</a></p>
<p>asking about the effe... | Closure reason doesn't make any sense to me |
<p>You've asked an important question. Given more time, I could probably write a more detailed & polished answer, but that would delay things. On the basis that "something is better than nothing", here is a bit of a "brain dump" (as this is something I'm already actively thinking about) so you c... | 9833 | 2023-04-01T11:12:26.943 | |discussion|moderation| | <p>In general, I agree that chatbot content should be forbidden.</p>
<p>I am also aware that detecting chatbot content isn't always easy - there are bound to be false positives and false negatives.</p>
<p>As I have flagged several posts as chatbot content myself, I hope that I haven't gotten any innocent parties suspen... | How can users who were suspended for posting alleged ChatGPT answers appeal the suspension? |
<p>One thing to know is that comments are treated like post-it notes and they can be thrown away by SE. Their attitude is that relevant information should be posted in an answer, and not in comments. So it might be good to simply post the information in an answer, I know it's not always possible.</p>
| 9842 | 2023-04-19T04:57:08.593 | |feature-request|comments|mathjax|chat| | <p>I am always reluctant to move comments to chat, if they contain MathJax, because the chat interface doesn't support it. All math expressions are displayed as plain text, with the \$ delimiters, and no attempt to render what's in between.</p>
<p>Some users will move comments to chat "on my behalf", the reas... | MathJax in chat |
<p>Re: Flag or not an "Answer" when "Question" does not contain a question</p>
<p><strong>Summary:</strong> I think the part about the <em>question</em> is the primary issue in that situation.</p>
<p>Unclear (vague, insufficiently defined etc.) questions can lead to problems, when people try (usuall... | 9862 | 2023-05-26T15:05:21.850 | |discussion|flagging|not-an-answer| | <p>If a "question" post does not actually contain a question, is it appropriate to flag an "answer" to that post as "not an answer"?</p>
| Flag as not an "Answer" when "Question" does not contain a question |
<p>Posters that would welcome such an offer likely:</p>
<ul>
<li>are signed up with their real name, so you could search them on the web</li>
<li>leave contact details in their profile pages</li>
</ul>
<p>For others, it should be assumed that they wish to remain anonymous.</p>
<p>Regardless, asking them in a comment to... | 9876 | 2023-06-15T04:29:58.903 | |support| | <p>I would like to ask one of your contributors if they are for hire as a consultant, is that allowed?</p>
<p>If so, how should I contact them? Should I post my interest in their services under their answer?</p>
<p>I don't want to break any rules and could not find this subject in a search.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance for... | Is it allowed to ask if a contributor is for hire as a consultant? |
<p>tl;dr: The fix should be out in production now. Please let me know if you're still seeing issues with schematic-related links.</p>
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<p>Big thanks to <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/users/268467/math-keeps-me-busy">Math Keeps Me Busy</a> for the HTTP vs HTTPS pointer. I'm not entirely sure h... | 9892 | 2023-08-05T06:18:15.460 | |bug|status-completed|editing|circuitlab|schematic| | <p>I have noticed that I can't edit my old schematics because the EDIT button under the schematic doesn't appear after I go into edit mode on my answer. What could be the reason?</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JAQc2.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JAQc2.png" alt="Missing ED... | I can't edit my old schematics |
<p><strong>The tour is now back in the top bar drop-down menu.</strong></p>
<p>See the earlier version of my answer below, where SE said this was an unintentional change which they were fixing. It has now been fixed (at least on our site).</p>
<hr />
<hr />
<p>As <em><a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/... | 9924 | 2023-10-16T17:56:40.240 | |support|bug|status-completed| | <p>In researching to respond to a question, I tried to find the site tour and couldn't find it. Is it gone? I hope not -- it was a good resource, even for experienced users.</p>
<p>Update: Found it here: <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/tour">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/tour</a> -- but it real... | Was the "Tour" removed? |
<p>I agree. What is doubly bad about this one is that it tends to be mistakenly added when someone is trying to use a tag that has multiple words -- a space between words is interpreted by the system as a tag separator, and we use a "-" to connect words that are part of the same tag. For example, <a href="htt... | 9930 | 2023-10-27T03:06:20.107 | |discussion|status-completed|tag-cleanup|tag-blacklist-request| | <p>(A bad pun or play on words in the title of such requests is expected by tradition.)</p>
<p>Remembering <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7212/im-not-electrified-by-the-existence-of-the-blanket-electrical-and-electricit">I'm not electrified by the existence of the blanket [electrical]... | implicit tag: can we cut out the [electric]ity? |
<p>Yes, this is another intrinsic tag which needs to be blocklisted. As with "electric", at least some of the time it is only used when a user is trying to tag the question as "electrical engineering", which results in tagging the question with not just one intrinsic tag ("electrical-engineerin... | 9932 | 2023-10-27T17:47:51.057 | |discussion|status-completed|tag-blacklist-request| | <p>While cleaning up <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/electric" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'electric'" aria-label="show questions tagged 'electric'" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-electric-tooltip-container">electric</a>, I noticed that there are an <a h... | Let's not over-engineer questions: blacklist [engineering] |
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<p>Would it be on topic to ask whether or not I picked the right charge
controller and wire sizes, based on the calculations I made?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Design questions are fine, shopping questions are not fine. Please keep it to a design question, use block diagrams and make sure you link datasheets (ma... | 9936 | 2023-11-08T12:24:26.707 | |discussion| | <p>I have almost no knowledge in electronics. For the past few days, I have been learning what I believe to be all the basics required for assembling sort of a DIY solar battery project, using solar panels, a solar charge controller, a 12V LiFePO4 battery and a 12V 220V converter.</p>
<p>I think I made the necessary ca... | Can I ask questions about a DIY solar battery project to know whether or not my calculations are off? |
<p>The Stack Exchange site has features that the sub sites don't have, it's the most-used site and gets the most attention. There isn't a deliberate reason. My guess is they don't have the analytics to detect AI questions on this site or haven't implemented it yet.</p>
| 9941 | 2023-11-18T09:21:59.157 | |discussion| | <p>The main Stack Overflow site has the following reminder in the <em>Your Answer</em> box:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Reminder</strong>: Answers generated by Artificial Intelligence tools are not allowed on Stack Overflow. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/help/ai-policy">Learn more</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Whereas ... | Is the reminder that "Answers generated by Artificial Intelligence tools are not allowed on Stack Overflow" supposed to appear on all sites? |
<p>If you have over 10k rep you can see deleted answers, otherwise have a mod search it for you.</p>
<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/105835/how-to-find-my-deleted-answer">How to find my deleted answer?</a></p>
| 9962 | 2023-12-07T16:52:04.727 | |support|deleted-questions| | <p><em>"You don't need to know everything. You merely need to know where to look it up."</em></p>
<p>Often a time, when trying to remember a specific solution to a problem, I don't remember the solution exactly, but I do remember that I had researched one and made an answer about it at EE.SE. I then usually m... | How can I search for an old answer of mine when the question is seemingly deleted? |
<p>I think tags like DFN, QFN, DIP, etc. are too specific. Questions should use <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/packages" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'packages'" aria-label="show questions tagged 'packages'" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-packages-toolti... | 9966 | 2023-12-08T17:06:30.940 | |discussion|tags| | <p>For the question <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/692363/what-is-this-dfn-8-pin-package">What is this DFN 8-pin package?</a> which originally used QFN instead of DFN, I added the tag DFN.</p>
<p>The tag QFN already exists, but the tag DFN did not. Neither does the tag "Flat no-leads pack... | Added tag DFN - do we want it? |
<p>In addition to what Sam says about the reason, also consider that <em>changing</em> it, at this point, would require mass editing thousands if not millions of questions and answers, which, besides being a lot of work, would be a heavy load on the database.</p>
<p>And it would require that all of our best answerers w... | 9967 | 2023-12-13T14:32:58.247 | |feature-request| | <p>I am accustomed to inline-math with MathJax support on many Stack Exchange sites. For electrical engineering, equations are a really big part of circuit modeling. $I_{DS}$ for instance is used to describe the Drain-Source current in a n-channel MOSFET transistors on other Stack Exchange sites, and new users can ge... | Is it possible to add inline-mathjax support like the other StackExchange sites document? |
<p>According to <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/48578/what-can-cause-a-question-to-be-bumped">the appropriate meta post</a>, auto bump can be triggered on <em>non-negatively scored, open questions that have at least one answer scoring 0 and none scoring more than that.</em></p>
<p>Therefore, questions... | 9973 | 2023-12-20T16:19:42.100 | |discussion|close-reasons| | <p>Every question that is both old and not with an accepted answer will be bumped sooner or later by the Community bot into the recently active questions.</p>
<p>However, a fair portion of them are obviously abandoned questions, for example if they were answered in comments. Some even have satisfactory answers, but the... | Should abandonment be a "community-specific" close reason? |
<p>I can't speak for those that voted to close, of course, but I would offer my perception of the situation:</p>
<p>Readers don't like presuppositions or unchecked (esp. mistaken) assumptions in questions. It's generally better to ask a question neutrally, rather than asking why some given (shaky) position is right or... | 9979 | 2023-12-31T07:42:41.700 | |support|asking-questions| | <p>I asked <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/695841/356391">this question</a> about replacing a Darlington transistor in a power amplifier with something else. It was closed with the reason:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Questions seeking <strong>recommendations for specific products or places to purchase them</st... | What more can I do to fix this question? |
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/C81oy.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/C81oy.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
<p>The question is not specific enough, please be more speicfic on what you need help with. It looks more like "here is my buck design help me with... | 10001 | 2024-02-02T21:35:35.827 | |discussion|closed-questions| | <p>My recent <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/699883/buck-regulators-feedback-voltage-far-lower-than-expected">question</a> about my buck regulator output was closed for "needs detail or clarity" but I don't know what details I should add to this question to fix that. I have a specific... | How can I improve my question? |
<p>I voted to close the question. This had the symptoms of "cheap product gives cheap results". No shame in trying to save a buck or two but, as @SamGibson says, you are rolling the dice and sometimes you end up with a dud. For instance, I just bought a horrible HDMI adapter that's going back to Amazon.</p>
<... | 10006 | 2024-02-23T13:27:21.117 | |discussion| | <p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/702577/fix-for-horrible-hissing-from-a-sanwu-hf41-tpa3116-bluetooth-5-0-2-1ch-amplifier">Fix for Horrible Hissing from a SANWU HF41 TPA3116 bluetooth 5.0 2.1CH Amplifier/BT Module</a></p>
<p>Not sure why this one was closed.</p>
<p>My question is about how to ... | Confused about why closed? |
<p>It's hard not to notice that there are a limited number of questions on the relevant tags at the code review site, and for most of those, there is only one answer provided, and it's provided by you.</p>
<p>I have zero problems with a comment showing that there are valuable code-review services available at Code Revi... | 10021 | 2024-03-23T23:25:03.207 | |discussion| | <p>I was in a chat with user @<a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/53015/mast">Mast</a> on the <a href="https://codereview.stackexchange.com">Code Review Stack Exchange site</a> (CR). @Mast, who is a <a href="https://codereview.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators">Moderator</a> there, then had a cha... | Suggest posting a follow-up question on Code Review site |
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