It was only a few month ago that I became a member of the AAC forum - and I have a general question, primarily to the moderators.
According to my present understanding, the purpose of this forum is twofold:
1.) To help students and other beginners if they have technical questions or problems in solving basic tasks.
Answers to those questions should help the OP to develop a good/better understanding how electric/electronic parts, circuits and systems work.
(Of course, this includes the corresponding mathematical formulas, procedures and methods for calculating voltages, currents, resistors,...).
2.) To enable a discussion between forum members (often experienced and advanced engineers/scientists) about interesting questions or problems within the technical frames of the AAC forum.
3.) Remark: In some cases, threads belonging to group 1.) merge into a discussion corresponding to 2.).
I think, this cannot be avoided - however, for my opinion, it even should not be avoided because this is also to the benefit of all newbies. So they can learn that in reality many things are more complicated than initially anticipated. A coming good engineer should be able to assess if for a particular application some simplified views are allowed - or not. (Thus, at least he must be able to realize that it is just a simplification.)
4.) Question (primarily to the AAC moderators): Is this rough description of the purposes of the forum correct?
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After this introduction, I like to explain the background of my question.
The following text is the only response from a long-standing senior AAC member to one of my earlier (pure technical-oriented) contributions in AAC dealing with the question current or voltage control ?:
Quote: Sort of like a very pedantic fellow who likes to talk about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin we have encountered before...
Apart from the aggressive tone of this reply, I think that this was a question which - from the engineering point of view - is worth to be discussed. Perhaps not in this forum?
On the other hand, other forum members did participate in the discussion with helpful technical contributions.
In connection with my remark in point 3.) I have read another contribution from the same forum member:
Take the (name of a member)-induced disruptive behavior about Vbe controlling Collector current in Bipolar transistors. Some newbie shows up that is asking how do I bias my transistor switch, which could be answered at his or her level of understanding with one or two posts with some simple rules-of-thumb that will work for the rest of their career, and instead he or she gets 100s of posts about what is unimportant, confusing, and utimately just pisses people off.
(By the way - I am not quite sure if for coming engineers some simple rules-of-thumb will work for the rest of the career.)
Therefore my final question:
Is my understanding (as outlined above under 1. , 2. and 3.) in accordance with fundamental AAC forum rules?
Thank you
LvW
According to my present understanding, the purpose of this forum is twofold:
1.) To help students and other beginners if they have technical questions or problems in solving basic tasks.
Answers to those questions should help the OP to develop a good/better understanding how electric/electronic parts, circuits and systems work.
(Of course, this includes the corresponding mathematical formulas, procedures and methods for calculating voltages, currents, resistors,...).
2.) To enable a discussion between forum members (often experienced and advanced engineers/scientists) about interesting questions or problems within the technical frames of the AAC forum.
3.) Remark: In some cases, threads belonging to group 1.) merge into a discussion corresponding to 2.).
I think, this cannot be avoided - however, for my opinion, it even should not be avoided because this is also to the benefit of all newbies. So they can learn that in reality many things are more complicated than initially anticipated. A coming good engineer should be able to assess if for a particular application some simplified views are allowed - or not. (Thus, at least he must be able to realize that it is just a simplification.)
4.) Question (primarily to the AAC moderators): Is this rough description of the purposes of the forum correct?
_________________________________________________________
After this introduction, I like to explain the background of my question.
The following text is the only response from a long-standing senior AAC member to one of my earlier (pure technical-oriented) contributions in AAC dealing with the question current or voltage control ?:
Quote: Sort of like a very pedantic fellow who likes to talk about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin we have encountered before...
Apart from the aggressive tone of this reply, I think that this was a question which - from the engineering point of view - is worth to be discussed. Perhaps not in this forum?
On the other hand, other forum members did participate in the discussion with helpful technical contributions.
In connection with my remark in point 3.) I have read another contribution from the same forum member:
Take the (name of a member)-induced disruptive behavior about Vbe controlling Collector current in Bipolar transistors. Some newbie shows up that is asking how do I bias my transistor switch, which could be answered at his or her level of understanding with one or two posts with some simple rules-of-thumb that will work for the rest of their career, and instead he or she gets 100s of posts about what is unimportant, confusing, and utimately just pisses people off.
(By the way - I am not quite sure if for coming engineers some simple rules-of-thumb will work for the rest of the career.)
Therefore my final question:
Is my understanding (as outlined above under 1. , 2. and 3.) in accordance with fundamental AAC forum rules?
Thank you
LvW