Timeline for How to follow the signal when reading the schematic?
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| Mar 3, 2023 at 15:35 | comment | added | SteveSh | Our schematic capture tools in general will not let you make a 4 junction dot. It will offset one connection from the other, created 2 junctions near each other. One exception is where you're trying to show a single point connection for something like a single point ground connection. But it takes special effort to do that. | |
| Mar 3, 2023 at 13:24 | comment | added | komrad2236 | Yes, answer would've been way more helpful if it focused on reading the schematic and following the signal as it travels trough schematic. I do not plan to draw them at all. Still it gave me some insight to how schematics work. | |
| Mar 3, 2023 at 11:59 | comment | added | Andy aka | The OP is asking about reading schematics but, significantly more than 50% of your answer is about drawing them. These are not the same skills. | |
| Mar 3, 2023 at 10:20 | comment | added | Neil_UK | @TonyM Not sure I can think of much of an improvement, the why is in there quite early, printing errors can add and remove dots, and I've been spending too long on that point anyway. The rationale these days is weaker with schematics printed from CAD. Perhaps you would edit that point with your own suggested wording, I can always tweak or revert if I'm not happy. | |
| Mar 3, 2023 at 10:10 | comment | added | TonyM | "Never join 4 wires at a dot" This is a very good guideline (these can't be rules) and you've explained what it is but not really why. The reason is that schematics with small junction dots or poor prints of schematics may leave it unclear if a junction dot is present or not. So a '+'-shaped junction may actually be two nets crossing over or actually a 4-way junction. Don't use 4-way junctions and the schematic connections will be unambiguous. Recommend you improve that, putting the reason early in that paragraph (and moving the long anecdote out of list so the point is succinct and clear). | |
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| Mar 3, 2023 at 9:46 | history | answered | Neil_UK | CC BY-SA 4.0 |