edady1;
Yeah, its a true problem. Been in electronics one way or another since I was a kid and I get confused.
The other problem is that some of them mean different things in different fields.
I usually try to ask early after a post if there are terms or acronyms that will be confusing.
I see this on other forums, especially the techy ones. I try to clarify mine but am not always successful.
Like:
If your pieces are stuck I suggest you use a BFH [Big Fat Hammer] to knock them apart.
I am sure I can figure out how to get an acronyms update or even a fresh page installed if someone puts one together.
The start would be to compile a list of the common ones in use here now. PWM, etc. See, I can't even think of a couple offhand so I used the one you mentioned.
The list could include common terms, also. Stator, Yaw, cut in, and a pile more I haven't thought of just now.
Another of those documents we can put together in the hope folks use them.
JacquesM built a program that parses webpages and creates links to other user submitted internal documents describing terms used in the page. Perhaps there will one day be a way to feed the Fieldlines page to that to provide links to definitions. It was quite interesting.
Pretty much impossible to integrate into current software here so would not be likely to see that as a Fieldlines display option under the current setup.
But the idea of a database of terms and acronym is a good one.
Hopefully we can pull something together that folks will use.
TomW
