Questions tagged [best-practice]

A best practice is a method or technique that has consistently shown results superior to those achieved with other means, and that is used as a benchmark

A best practice is a method or technique that has consistently shown results superior to those achieved with other means, and that is used as a benchmark. In addition, a "best" practice can evolve to become better as improvements are discovered. Best practice is considered by some as a business buzzword, used to describe the process of developing and following a standard way of doing things that multiple organizations can use.

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Tinning wires that will be screwed in to a chocolate block/terminal strip

This is subjective, but I am looking for other people's experience. If I am going to screw eight wires into a daughter relay board's terminal block, is there a benefit or advantage to tinning the copper end before? The environment that the units are…
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Using a human finger to test a circuit

In this Linear Tech App Note 13, page 28, Jim describes: A final form of probe is the human finger. Probing the circuit with a finger can accentuate desired or undesired effects, giving clues that may be useful. The finger can be used to…
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Acceptable voltage spikes

I have been combating EMI from a motor switched by a relay but have managed to get it under control or so I think: It started like this: 30+ voltage swing @ 5.000us+ After an AC snubber, opto-couplers, decoupling caps it's now: 2.5 volt swing @…
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Microcontrollers - disconnect I2C and Serial lines after loading from EEPROM

I am using a P8X32A (Parallax "Propeller" microcontroller) in many of my hobby projects. It has no NV RAM internally on the chip so it loads its program code from either a serial port TX/RX pins or from an I2C EEPROM (24LC256) on SDA/SCL pins. …
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If you have multiple small pcbs in a single chassis, what is the naming convention for components?

ie, on board 1 do you name resistors R1-R10, then on board 2 name them R1-R10 also? Or do you name resistors R1-R10 on board 1, R11-R20 on board 2, etc? What is the convention or best practice?
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Is turning a device on/off by using it power cord more harmful than using its on/off button?

Is it potentially harmful to the user or the longevity of a device to turn it on/off by using its power cord or a controllable power switch rather than its on/off button? If it depends on the device, how so?
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