Jon's Imaginarium – A Survey

[Visitor]

Since I seem to have generated some controversy in my Jon's Imaginarium posts, please do me a favor and take a brief survey at Survey Monkey. It will only take a couple minutes.

I have used Survey Monkey for this survey, as the majority of READERS of Electrotech are not members, and therefore can't make comments here.


Jon's Imaginarium Survey – Useful or Waste of Time and Space

 

[Pommie]

Just ignore the contrarians, keep it going. Most people love it.

Mike.

 

[Mickster]

Survey done, keep em coming as far as I am concerned.
Thanks.

 

[rfranzk]

I find them interesting and helpful. I don't feel the need to comment one way or the other on most posts I read. Many times I consider the source and then form my opinion. There is a wealth of experience on this forum and I occasionally get to make use of it. Also a wealth of criticism and seems like condescension towards beginners.

 

[Visitor]

Also a wealth of criticism and seems like condescension towards beginners.

Sadly, this is all too true.

I have (had?) planned to include some more basic concepts in my posts too. Neither a very negative reply ("It can't possibly work like that." without any clear, non-condesending explanation of a better way to to do things, or taking over a project and saying it's the only way a thing can be done (again with no clear explanation) is helpful to beginners or more experienced users.

 

[unclejed613]

most of my practical knowledge of the engineering side of electronics is drawn from data books, app notes and the like, so i think putting a lot of this stuff in one place is very useful.... a lot of vintage data books, etc.. can be found on archive.org, but sometimes the searches for a specific manual or app note can take a while, even if you remember the title word-for-word.