Have an opinion or something to say, want to ask or answer questions, share your knowledge then use our site to do it . myElectrical is a community of people interested in electrical engineering and related topics. The site develops and grows from contributions of it's members. To facilitate this contribution the site provides a user friendly set of options for adding content. The only requirement to be able to contribute to the site it to register and become a member. Registration is a simple process and the site is completely free.
At myElectrical we encourage all users to contribute. To keep things sane and sensible, we do have some guidelines and restrictions; most of which are similar to what you would find on other sites.
Cpitalisation, Leetspeak and Spelling - do not post in all upper case or use Leetspeak in titles or content. Well written English is received better by our members and will result in your post being better received. For spelling, the editor includes a spelling checker which can be used to check the content for errors before posting.
The ‘Opinion’ area is the place for making posts. Generally anything related to Electrical Engineering would be fine - we like to let our members can decide what topics are appropriate. While trying to be a open as possible, there are a few limits (things not allowed as ‘Opinion’ posts):
Our Wiki is an free open resource with the intention of building up knowledge base of electrical engineering for everyone to use. It should contain content directly related to electrical engineering. Think of our Wiki as an online book; but one which can be edited and expanded by our members. Everyone is encouraged to share their leaning by adding to, expanding or updating the Wiki. Whether it is a full page or just correcting punctuation, all input is valuable and helps make the Wiki better.
Good page layout and formatting are essential to ensuring a good user experience of the Wiki. We would appreciate if you could adhere to the following when adding to the Wiki:
Tip - when pasting copied content, use the plain text button to remove old formatting and make it easier to tidy up.
Wiki Content Copyright - all Wiki content is posted under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License. By posting content to the Wiki you agree to make this available under the above the license.
Don't be afraid to jump into a discussion. We are a supportive community that likes sot support and encourage our members. Give your question a meaningful title, which summarises the issue. Explain your question in more detail in the content box.
References add validity to a topic and show the writer has carried out research to ensure the factual integrity of the information. Most importantly they acknowledge the contribution made by the author of the referenced work. You should use references where appropriate.
When citing references, a well adopted system is the Vancouver (numerical) system. Each reference is individually numbered and enclosed in square brackets (e.g. [1]). A list of references should appear at the end of the topic. Some examples of how to format references for different publications [1] are:
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