Roman Black wrote:
> Wagner Lipnharski wrote:
>> It is so "out of sense" to have an electronic part on the schematic
>> that has only one lead connected to something.
>
> I agree totally.
>
>> We should not generalize, but in most cases, you can recognize a good
>> technician by the way he draws his schematics. Not talking about
>> using special software, I am talking about the way the schematic is
>> transfered from his brain to the restaurant napkin.
>
> Yep, volts from top to bottom, pref drawn as rails,
> and signal flow from left to right. No spastic sideways
> Amercian transistors (grin) or little isolated blips
> marked as Vdd or Gnd all over the place.
> <asbestic> ;o)
> -Roman


I am not totally against any necessary change or sometimes innovative ways
to skin a cat, but personally I feel very strange to see a logic sequence
of events going down to top or from right to left.  Of course that it is
purely based on culture.  Many other cultures write books in this way.

As when reading a book, I expect to see some vital information about power
or voltages on top left.  It has been changed in time, and most power
supply circuits, regulators and filters are being positioned on bottom
left, but I still feel more comfortable to see them otherwise.  Also, I
expect to see input signals at the left, expecting the resulting output at
the right.

Of course, digital circuits, with mixed pins, not even talking about
bi-directional circuits, messed this up completely, not even talking about
several different supply voltages.

In the old electronic schematics, it was clear that the left side of the
paper would tell you the main line voltage path, the transformer section,
then the right side would be the useful electronics, of course, at that
time, mostly electronic components identified as 6BQ5, 12AX7, 6V6, and so
on... :)

Perhaps the top to bottom may have connections with reading, or the natural
way to understand hidromechanical machines (water flow).

One thing that I feel completely annoying is when a signal path going to
right, not being a feedback suddenly returns to left, it really pesters my
good mood, even understanding that sometimes it is done by lack of space on
the paper or something like that.

But it is being fun to see what the "uncultured" mind can comes up with
different ways to do the same old things.

Wagner.

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