Re: Interview Question (your Sunday ruined part 2)

On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 17:24:36 +0100, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:

Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> wrote:
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On a sunny day (Mon, 21 Oct 2024 09:27:24 -0400) it happened "Tom Del Rosso"
<fizzbintuesday@that-google-mail-domain.com> wrote in
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Jan Panteltje wrote:

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And the old zig-zag symbols the US uses for resistors.....
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better
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  2k2

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What's the point of that?

 
Looks better in big diagrams? (debatable I know)
Easier to draw by hand?
Takes less space?
 
 

Wasn't the zigzag used everywhere for 100 years?

 
That is no argument, so were petrol powered cars..
 
 

A rectangle could be anything.

 
Except in a drawn circuit with an R1234 type identifier
or some value next to it like 9k1.

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But you then have to read the identifier before you know what the
component is.  The whole point of a symbol is that it is symbolic, so
you can scan over a circuit and see the general outlay without having to
read what every component is.

The wiggle thing is more obviously a resistor on a whiteboard.

More fun to draw too.

I had a medical event that, for some bizarre reason, wrecked the look
of my hand-drawn schematics. It was awful. It fixed itself in a month
or two.