kokonut
New User
- Location
- Florida. California, Hawaii
- Occupation
- Electrical Engineer
This is my first post. The creators of this website will never know just how useful and significant this place is for solving electrical engineering problems. I am a licensed electrical engineer and electrical contractor, and man, have I spent a lot of time reading here. This place singlehandedly delivers the specific precise correct answer to so many various challenging problems I have encountered over the years...over decades actually. I could never have found the success I've been blessed with if not for the wisdom of better engineers than myself, voluntarily and graciously shared here. I just want to say that.
You guys gotta keep this place up. Even threads like 15 years old, based on totally outdated code. They are insightful and helpful, and lead to solutions. Anyone reading here will take into consideration the date of posts and the relative code of the time period. Even posts containing proven wrong information. All of it; it is just an all around precious resource. Seeing how other engineers think, hearing thoughtful discourse, finding useful esoteric knowledge, seeing how other engineers mis-think, seeing how things/codes used to be a long time ago. All valuable.
Lately, I have noticed many threads just wiped out and 404'd. I hope there is nothing wrong. You should do everything to keep this place around forever. Ask for help or money if you ever need it. If you had a way to download the entire forum archive, that would be ideal, as it would be preserved forever. The EE industry would be permanently worse off if you let this place go the way of IMDB or many other forums.
I don't know who Mike Holt is, but his name is as meaningful to me as Thomas Edison when it comes to our field. The folks operating this place have brought a tremendous amount of shared empowerment, competence, dignity, and knowledge to our profession; for that, they should be eternally proud. Keep up the good work and keep it running; know that it is greatly appreciated by those who silently read it.
You guys gotta keep this place up. Even threads like 15 years old, based on totally outdated code. They are insightful and helpful, and lead to solutions. Anyone reading here will take into consideration the date of posts and the relative code of the time period. Even posts containing proven wrong information. All of it; it is just an all around precious resource. Seeing how other engineers think, hearing thoughtful discourse, finding useful esoteric knowledge, seeing how other engineers mis-think, seeing how things/codes used to be a long time ago. All valuable.
Lately, I have noticed many threads just wiped out and 404'd. I hope there is nothing wrong. You should do everything to keep this place around forever. Ask for help or money if you ever need it. If you had a way to download the entire forum archive, that would be ideal, as it would be preserved forever. The EE industry would be permanently worse off if you let this place go the way of IMDB or many other forums.
I don't know who Mike Holt is, but his name is as meaningful to me as Thomas Edison when it comes to our field. The folks operating this place have brought a tremendous amount of shared empowerment, competence, dignity, and knowledge to our profession; for that, they should be eternally proud. Keep up the good work and keep it running; know that it is greatly appreciated by those who silently read it.
