Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Are "is it possible...?" questions off-topic?
A moderator has apprised me of a rule I wasn't aware of, and wanted to get confirmation from the community.
Prompting question: LC Parallel resonance induction heater
Comment:
The system flagged your ...
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Reference Question for Soldered Breadboard/Perfboard
I have seen some horrible soldered breadboards recently. And it wasn't just the soldering, the entire approach was bad. For a recent question, I was going to post pictures of my built circuit, but it ...
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Editing out noise and redundancy in titles
There seems to be an increasing number of questions asked by new users who write titles that have redundancy or unhelpful verbiage.
Some fictional examples:
Question about resistors
(Everything is a ...
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Is my question about synthesising controllers for non-minimal-phase systems using Bode plots clear? Why has it not attracted attention?
I am talking about this question: Can the graphoanalytic method of synthesizing controllers by Bode plots (by lead and lag elements) be used for non-minimal-phase systems? If not, why?
Do you think it ...
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Are questions about component selections (i.e. features) and use of electro-mechanical device allowed?
I'm aware about this meta question, but I'm not sure how to interpret the answers since they have downvotes. I also checked the on-topic page. Still I don't understand if I can ask a question about ...
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Is the reminder that "Answers generated by Artificial Intelligence tools are not allowed on Stack Overflow" supposed to appear on all sites?
The main Stack Overflow site has the following reminder in the Your Answer box:
Reminder: Answers generated by Artificial Intelligence tools are not allowed on Stack Overflow. Learn more
Whereas on ...
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Drive Power LED with a BJT [migrated]
I'm studying how the transistor works as inverter but in some books they have a small section where they talk about how to drive lamps and LEDs, but they don't use the same configuration. I would like ...
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Can I ask questions about a DIY solar battery project to know whether or not my calculations are off?
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 ...
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Let's not over-engineer questions: blacklist [engineering]
While cleaning up electric, I noticed that there are an engineering tag. On a website whose title is "Electrical Engineering", that's a strong candidate for an intrinsic tag, i.e., one that ...
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implicit tag: can we cut out the [electric]ity?
(A bad pun or play on words in the title of such requests is expected by tradition.)
Remembering I'm not electrified by the existence of the blanket [electrical] and [electricity] tags, let's ...
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Where can I find a website that allows me to ask for book recommendations on electronics?
before you close this for being off topic or for whatever other reason can you please just shoot me a private message or something where can I find a website that allows me to ask for book ...
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Reputation changes
I think I've asked this before, but don't remember the answer. My reputation dropped 10 points today. IIRC, that is because someone who contributed to my total in the past no longer is on the forum, ...
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Check for dupes before you migrate! [closed]
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/posts/683797/revisions was just migrated to DIY. It is an exact duplicate of https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/283251/wiring-from-meter-to-panel-over-longer-...
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Advice on the best way to group/link questions with a common theme
In answering a question about burnt resistors Apparently open circuit resistor with 5 bands and white final band I've spotted that we've got quite a lot of similar questions (such as this one Can ...
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Are literature recommendations off-topic?
I've seen this topic come up offhand several times now, so it seems worth rule-lawyering into. With that in mind...
Background
In a recent question,
Push pull transformer winding
the OP asked (in ...
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Off-Topic Question: Direct Response To Answer In Separate Question
This question was closed as off-topic:
Questions seeking recommendations for specific products or places to purchase them.
If veterans are recommending in their answers that battery units should be ...
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I want to combine two analogue video signals. Is this the right place to ask how?
I have two RGB video outputs that I want to combine simply by merging the signals, is the EE forum the correct place to ask about this?
The pinouts of the RGB connector is:
Red
Green
Blue
Sync
0V
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Should we make it mandatory to explain close comments?
I've recently seen several posts with close votes without any comment indicating the author what the problem is. If the author doesn't have enough reputation to view close votes, he gets no feedback ...
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Don't Migrate Garbage
https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/274991/220v-induction-heater-electrical-connection is NOT a Home Improvement question. It is not about hooking up a home heater - it appears to be about a ...
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How should I ask a question so that it won't be deleted by a robot?
I recently joined stackexchange to seek help, but is it allowed to ask questions at will? I have asked several questions, all of which were deleted by the review robot. Where is the administrator of ...
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Remember to upvote questions
It's probably observation bias or coincidence but lately I've noticed enough questions without upvotes but plenty of answers (or at least one answer) to bother me. In fact, I first noticed it on a ...
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Flag as not an "Answer" when "Question" does not contain a question
If a "question" post does not actually contain a question, is it appropriate to flag an "answer" to that post as "not an answer"?
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Question repeatedly closed - no sensible reason given
I've waited a week before replying here so that nobody thinks this response was in anyway "in the heat of the moment"...
A couple of weeks ago I asked a question about Trying to get a ...
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Why my prev question "closed"
Does that mean no-one else can reply to it?
I really need answers to my questions in this original MOSFET question.
How do I trigger this?
Thanks.
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Look before you migrate
https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/271583/what-step-up-booster-transformer-would-be-needed-to-wire-a-227v-ptac-unit-into-1 was just migrated to DIY. The OP had already posted their own copy of ...
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Useful symbols shortcut for Windows users ✔
Pressing Windows key + . or ; will open up a "emoji menu" with a lot of useful ...
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Are hosted OS drivers on-topic here?
My other meta question seems to have yet again brought to the fore the question of what is and isn't embedded programming. In other words, where the cutoff is for a questions being off-topic here and ...
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How can users who were suspended for posting alleged ChatGPT answers appeal the suspension?
In general, I agree that chatbot content should be forbidden.
I am also aware that detecting chatbot content isn't always easy - there are bound to be false positives and false negatives.
As I have ...
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Tag for software drivers?
When asking my question about software drivers, when tagging it I noticed that there doesn't seem to be a tag appropriate for software device drivers.
Current description for driver indicates it is ...
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Closure reason doesn't make any sense to me
I'm referring to my own question:
Is there any scientific proof that passive cell balancing can improve the life of a battery pack?
asking about the effect of balancing on the battery life or state of ...
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Remove all [tag:custom]-isation
There is no usage for the custom tag, and it doesn't seem to add anything but noise.
Currently it is applied to 33 questions, a few recent ones, mostly quite old questions. All of them appear to have ...
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Should "what is the name for parts that do X?" be on topic?
A lot of time when I want to ask a question on a SE site I'm in a position something along the lines of:
I've got an idea how to solve a problem but it would require a component with specific ...
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What happened to Hoagie?
A few moments ago I was talking to Hoagie in the comments of a question I asked. I went back to browse some questions and saw that another answer of theirs had been downvoted without comment, and that ...
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Should the 'group' tag be removed?
There are four questions tagged [group], used in three different contexts:
group delay:
Difficulty understanding group delay concept
For what type of signals group delay of a filter should be taken ...
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I disagree that this question is opinion based
Why is this question closed?
I think the question could be better worded, sure. But the gist is asking about what areas of EE might overlap with Quantum computing.
I don't see how answering to that ...
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What should I edit in my previous questions?
Two days ago I posted a question and today I am surprised that I can't post again.
In this five years, only one question was downvoted, but its ok.
So I am asking you to help me out to put things ...
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Another strangely "Locked" question
This Question: "Can a 50mm2 cable handle 350 amps?" has been locked for 7 days.
Why?
It doesn't appear to be particularly controversial, and considering that it's only been viewed 13 times ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Unclear why question about thermostats remains closed
Question in question: Powering home thermostat using standard four-wire connection
This is a question about building a thermostat to work with a standard home HVAC communication protocol. It was ...
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Should I edit or re-post a question with a fundamental flaw?
I recently asked Can I trickle-charge (constant current) NiMH cells in parallel?. Looking at the answers and on further reflection, some points now stand out to me.
First, This question has a major ...
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Can we add the option to migrate questions to DIY?
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. Really?! The vast majority of questions I see migrated seem to go ...
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Tag `core` is used in the contexts of magnetic cores and processor cores
I recently used the core tag for a question about transformers and noticed that it had no description. I then wanted to add one, but noticed that it is used for two very different subjects: ...
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Should questions about ChatGPT responses be closed?
There seems to be a consensus that ChatGPT answers should be deleted.
What about questions that are essentially "ChatGPT told me X. Is X correct?"
This question is a long exposition about ...
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off-grid energy questions
Are questions about off-grid energy situations off topic on EESE? For example, sizing batteries, sizing solar arrays, compatibility of devices with inverters, generators, etc. From looking here it ...
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What happened with a recent question about a 6V motor and a 5V LDO regulator? Apparently user was removed along with all content
There was a question about powering a 6V motor and also a 5V circuit that needed a regulator. There were several answers explaining why the 7805 type regulators have too high dropout voltage and are ...
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can someone open linked question? [closed]
Can someone open linked question. I havw the picture changed.
transformer capactive
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Should the [vlsi] tag be added to the list of synonyms for the [integrated-circuit] tag?
The info page for the vlsi tag states:
it is used as a generic term to mean ICs in common usage.
and it is similar to the integrated-circuit tag info.
Also, the Wikipedia page states:
Very large-...
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Suspension for Plagiarism
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 ...
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Referencing: non-English material
Not everything I claim to know/be true is basic (say, Horowitz/Hill or part's data sheet) or self-invented.
I am aware of the help on How to reference material written by others.
What is the politics (...
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Why do I repeatedly get these ads when I have reported them and flagged them dozens if not scores of times?
Why do I repeatedly get these ads when I have reported them and flagged them dozens if not scores of times: -
They are totally inappropriate to me. How can I stop these inappropriate ads being ...
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