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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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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Constantly downvoting with no reason
There are some people (or a single person) here who have been constantly downvoting my answers since yesterday (I don't care who they are, for the record).
The problem is that they don't give any ...
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Is this SE an appropriate site to ask questions about fuel cells?
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 ...
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Why was this question locked?
This question: How is pitch changed and lift generated in QNET VTOL (Vertical Take off & Landing)? , has been closed as off-topic (seems reasonable since it's not about EE), and then locked - ...
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Edits just for style?
Before I revert the changes, I figured I'd ask here, since the editing user has high rep and has generally been very helpful to me in the past.
This edit, seems to be fairly pointless. It changes the ...
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Are "Is My Circuit Safe" questions on-topic?
I understand that open-ended design review questions are generally discouraged.
However, I'm designing my first mains powered device and was wondering if constrained design review questions such as &...
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Make "mesh" a synonym of the "mesh-analysis" tag?
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 ...
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Merge [batteries] and [cell-battery] tags?
cell-battery appears on 285 questions but has no tag wiki. batteries also appears on 138 of those questions and its tag wiki indicates that its use is for "one or more electrochemical cells",...
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Reason for question closure unfounded
My question 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 ...
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Why was this answer marked as disputed then closed?
This answer https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/634310/17178 does not seem to warrant a content dispute warning or forced hidden and deletion.
Why did it receive that.
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Splitting up and re-tagging [high-voltage] questions
In my EE.SE search today, I noticed that high-voltage is a really... bad tag. Not the tag itself, but the fact that it's managed to propagate into so many not-high-...
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Merge 5V 24V 3.3V tags with power-rail
The tags associated with a voltage are back. SE discourages the deletion (burnination) of tags. The problem with these tags is they don't really define a group of questions well (a 5V tag could ...
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Comments edited regarding safety? [closed]
In, DC-DC boost converter theory / principle / testing, I had a comment about something OP mentioned that I found concerning, regarding operating with a live battery; at least, I think I did?! But ...
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What might be the reason this question was deleted by a moderator?
This question has been deleted by a moderator but there is no clear indication why this deletion was made as far as I can see: -
What might be the reason for this deletion given that there were two ...
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What should we do about the bad close vote culture of this site?
I have noticed a growing problem here during the last year or so - likely it surfaced/escalated when we got the reduced close vote consensus necessary reduced from 5 to 3.
There is a whole lot of ...
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2022 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #6 on Electrical Engineering has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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Should a moderator change the meaning of an answer?
In this Q/A, the questioner asked for guidance modelling the self capacitance of a solenoid.
Andy Aka had already answered with a good method for measuring it. I supported this answer, and said so. I ...
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2022 Community Moderator Election
The 2022 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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2022 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election ...
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Lithium tags need to be looked at again
We have a lot of lithium tags. We have lithium lithium-ion lithium-polymer lipo
It looks like we need to clean up lithium and check to see if there are any questions that are on just lithium and put ...
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Why was this question closed (and then deleted)?
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, ...
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When ‘use of consumer devices’ is really an engineering question
This question recently came up: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/616812/why-does-my-touchscreen-often-not-register-my-commands-when-it-is-plugged-into-m
It’s been closed because of the ‘...
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Answers based on questionable science and possibility of spam
Physics Stack Exchange routinely closes questions that presume "non-mainstream science". I do not know their policy with regard to whether answers based on "non-mainstream science" ...
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Maybe I'm two more deleted comments closer to a suspension
I thought I may not have left a comment under a question when asked by the OP if I had a mathematical solution. So, I repeated the comment with an "@" directing it to the OP should I have ...
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Should we merge `ne555` and `555timer` tags into `555` tag?
There are 120 questions tagged ne555 and 0 questions tagged with 555timer.
I don't see the usefulness of these tags. Should they ...
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Why did I receive a 10 day suspension for what I believe is a perfectly valid comment with no ill-intent whatsoever?
I was suspended for 10 days beginning March 31st at just after 2pm. My 10-day suspension ended a few hours ago. The alleged basis for my suspension was that I made the following comment under this ...
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Is it the OP's fault his question is "locked-out" for 7 days due to arguments in answers
Reference this question: Op-amp based virtual ground with BJT buffer.
This Q and A session has been locked for 7 days: -
It has been locked due to repeated (warned and reported) behavioural traits ...
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Accepting an answer based on the reputation of its sender/poster
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.
This is one really strange and, sort of ...
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Why are so many questions getting down voted?
I agree that this question has been asked before, but that was some time ago and things seem to be getting worse. The questions was
why-are-electronics-se-questions-getting-down-voted-so-often (from ...
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Remove the iron tag
The tag iron is used 29 times. Out of these, 17 are tagged soldering iron which is definitely the wrong use of tags.
I suppose iron as in the material might be on-topic, when discussing various ...
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