Fascinating discussion of the nebulosity of electronic components featuring @robamacl and @mattskala. You don’t have to understand anything about electronics to get the key points (I hope! I don’t understand anything about electronics…)
Starting here:https://twitter.com/robamacl/status/1263505028591095808 …
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David Chapman Retweeted Rob MacLachlan
So if I’m following this correctly, the use of ferrite beads is largely empirical, and not just that, but pretty much one-off, because their behavior isn’t well-characterized. There are spec sheets, but those are often not meaningful in practice.https://twitter.com/robamacl/status/1263506985338703877 …
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Rob MacLachlan @robamaclReplying to @robamacl @MeaningnessPpl did this, and found that it sometimes helped things to work when you had an oscillation or interference. But beads came in different mechanical sizes, and can be made from different ferrite recipes. Experts said they are good, get an assortment and try them out.2 replies 0 retweets 4 likesShow this thread -
This make-a-reasonable-guess and try it and see process is far more prevalent in engineering and especially scientific methods than STEM professors want to admit. So it is under-taught, under-studied, and poorly understood. You can only learn it by apprenticeship and experience.
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It's hard to even talk about scientific craft, when scientific "method" means something so different.
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Nice way of putting it!
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