I ask, because I grew up in England and was used to the way electronic circuit diagrams were drawn in English textbooks, but had problems when I came to North America because different conventions were used (e.g. in the ARRL handbooks). Is it just stylistic? Do the object to the "icons"? What? For your information, the ARRL conventions are NOT all standard. Some of
On 01/04/2013 11:40 AM, Anton Aylward wrote: /snip/ their diagrams and part notations are not what is used in industry, particularly industry that sells to the military. Some that come to mind: An op amp is never shown with a curved input side in industry--that convention went out with Burr-Brown's tube amplifiers 50 years ago. Diodes are not called D, they are called CR. And wires that cross other wires are never connected. If a connection is needed, then the two wires are offset. The connection dot is always used, but the reason that crossed wires are never connected is that the connection dot may disappear in reducing the schematic drawing to a smaller size, as for a service manual. --doug, WA2SAY--retired RF engineer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org