Timeline for Why are power components meant to be power inputs in KiCad?
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| Jan 21, 2019 at 8:41 | comment | added | Rene Pöschl | @duskwuff It does not really matter for the question posted. The only difference would be where the power comes from and who consumes it. | |
| Jan 21, 2019 at 1:38 | vote | accept | Saren Tasciyan | ||
| Jan 20, 2019 at 23:58 | comment | added | user39382 | @RenePöschl Right, but there's no way to represent both of those configurations in a single Kicad symbol -- the author would have had to choose one. Which is why I'm trying to figure out what specific symbol the OP is working with. | |
| Jan 20, 2019 at 21:51 | comment | added | Rene Pöschl | @duskwuff Yes some arduino boards have the option to be powered directly from the outside. These boards would then supply the board that is placed on top of the arduino. This would mean that some pin of the arduino connector is the power output. But only if the user chooses to power everything via the arduino board. One can also power the arduiono from the shield instead. (Useful if you need more power and do not want to connect two power sources.) | |
| Jan 20, 2019 at 21:43 | comment | added | user39382 | @RenePöschl What I'm trying to get at is that an "Arduino" component may actually represent something unexpected -- like an external Arduino board which is supplying power to the circuit. | |
| Jan 20, 2019 at 21:41 | comment | added | Rene Pöschl | @duskwuff IC's are simply complex components that are placed as a black box to a schematic. Similarly a closed system like an arduino is also something that can be viewed as a black box. More details: forum.kicad.info/t/… | |
| Jan 20, 2019 at 21:36 | answer | added | Rene Pöschl | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 20, 2019 at 21:32 | comment | added | user39382 | What components are you actually placing? "Arduino" isn't an IC… | |
| Jan 20, 2019 at 21:19 | comment | added | Hearth | You say it was asked before. Where was it asked before? | |
| Jan 20, 2019 at 21:13 | history | asked | Saren Tasciyan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |