Author Topic: What electronics forums do you use? (Read 9997 times)

Jane · « **on:** March 22, 2014, 10:07:54 am »

What electronic forums do you consider being the best?
I use
http://www.badcaps.net/forum/
http://www.electro-tech-online.com/
https://www.eevblog.com/forum
What about you?

BravoV · « **Reply #1 on:** March 22, 2014, 11:09:43 am »

Quote from: Jane on March 22, 2014, 10:07:54 am

What electronic forums do you consider being the best?
I use
http://www.badcaps.net/forum/
http://www.electro-tech-online.com/
https://www.eevblog.com/forum
What about you?

Define the word "best" according to you.

Jane · « **Reply #2 on:** March 22, 2014, 11:38:36 am »

I mean the BEST according to a particular user.
I already told you MY best

HighVoltage · « **Reply #3 on:** March 22, 2014, 12:25:22 pm »

I have been a member on the edaboad.com from the beginning, not sure, like 15 years or so.
http://www.edaboard.com/

ablacon64 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 22, 2014, 01:21:49 pm »

I help on moderating an electronics forum aimed at projects and DIY: http://eletronicasilveira.forumeiros.com
And always visit some really good laptop forums like http://www.bufanxiu.com and http://vlab.su

I also contribute and moderate in a brazilian electronics forum at http://www.eletronicabr.com

Eletronicabr is an electronics forum aimed at servicing electronics devices (mainly laptops, computers and tablets). The forum has grown up and now we have lots of other areas like software, security and networking. There's a great database of datasheets and schematics, specially of laptop motherboards. We are over 20K users and going up.

Dave's videos always show up there!

robrenz · « **Reply #5 on:** March 22, 2014, 01:26:05 pm »

You mean there are other electronics forums out there?

If one sucks up all your free time AND BEYOUND what happens with more than one?

EDIT in RED

sleemanj · « **Reply #6 on:** March 22, 2014, 02:21:14 pm »

Quote from: robrenz on March 22, 2014, 01:26:05 pm

If one sucks up all your free time what happens with more than one?

You find a way to call it legitimate "research" :-)

As for my forums, apart from here, I keep an eye on dangerousprototypes.com, a few subreddits, geekzone.co.nz, and far too many youtube channels.

zapta · « **Reply #7 on:** March 22, 2014, 03:41:53 pm »

Quote from: Jane on March 22, 2014, 10:07:54 am

What electronic forums do you consider being the best?
I use
http://www.badcaps.net/forum/
http://www.electro-tech-online.com/
https://www.eevblog.com/forum
What about you?

eevblog is my first choice. Few others I read occasionally are

http://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/index.php
https://forum.sparkfun.com
http://forum.arduino.cc/

M4trix · « **Reply #8 on:** March 22, 2014, 03:56:57 pm »

Beside EEVblog, these are my favorite forums ->

http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/solid-state/
http://forum.speakerplans.com/

zapta · « **Reply #9 on:** March 22, 2014, 04:08:08 pm »

Quote from: BravoV on March 22, 2014, 11:09:43 am

Define the word "best" according to you.

Try this http://bit.ly/VMBy5j

linux-works · « **Reply #10 on:** March 22, 2014, 04:53:41 pm »

diyaudio is a fave of mine. I am also pretty active on amb.org (DIY kit maker for digital and analog audio).

yahoo tek scopes list is useful for that gear.

beyhond that, I'll search for answers and read the forum that comes up in the search. adafruit is good for some things, the arduino guys are good for some things, too.

mikeselectricstuff · « **Reply #11 on:** March 22, 2014, 04:56:41 pm »

For high voltage stuff : http://4hv.org/e107_plugins/forum/forum.php

aargee · « **Reply #12 on:** March 22, 2014, 10:30:31 pm »

Darn it, you guys, as if I haven't got enough hours in the day as it is!

nctnico · « **Reply #13 on:** March 22, 2014, 11:40:52 pm »

I try to stick to as few forums as possible otherwise it takes me too much time. For now I like EEVblog. Over here I don't get a ban for saying 'PIC stands for Pic Is Crap'.

peter.mitchell · « **Reply #14 on:** March 23, 2014, 01:41:12 am »

diyaudio is pretty good, but it is hard to avoid the audiophoolery/just plain wrong-ness sometimes, though,m it is pretty good as far as that goes for an audio forum.

vk6zgo · « **Reply #15 on:** March 23, 2014, 02:13:02 am »

EEVblog
QRZ.com
allabout circuits

They all have their good points ,but I find that the order they appear here is my preference.

T3sl4co1l · « **Reply #16 on:** March 23, 2014, 03:50:52 am »

Here, obviously; Dutchforce, t3h GeeK ZonE (if you follow much tube/hifi audio, you might know its owner, Gregg?), and also dA (diyAudio, mentioned earlier) from time to time.

Tim

EEVblog · « **Reply #17 on:** March 23, 2014, 07:30:20 am »

Quote from: linux-works on March 22, 2014, 04:53:41 pm

beyhond that, I'll search for answers and read the forum that comes up in the search.

I often do that. I'll join, ask a question, stay around to say thanks and discuss, usually get sucked into a few other threads, and then I'm out by a dozen or two posts.
The only other forum I frequent these days (but not so much any more) is an atheist forum.

SeanB · « **Reply #18 on:** March 23, 2014, 08:34:36 am »

Quote from: EEVblog on March 23, 2014, 07:30:20 am

The only other forum I frequent these days (but not so much any more) is an atheist forum.

God bless you for that Dave

Then again, I am agnostic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism

KJDS · « **Reply #19 on:** March 23, 2014, 08:41:23 am »

I spend far too much time on motoring forums.

nessatse · « **Reply #20 on:** March 23, 2014, 08:45:54 am »

Quote from: SeanB on March 23, 2014, 08:34:36 am

Quote from: EEVblog on March 23, 2014, 07:30:20 am
The only other forum I frequent these days (but not so much any more) is an atheist forum.

God bless you for that Dave

Then again, I am agnostic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism

EEVblog · « **Reply #21 on:** March 23, 2014, 09:56:57 am »

Quote from: SeanB on March 23, 2014, 08:34:36 am

Then again, I am agnostic.

Which actually means you're an atheist with another label, congratulations

SeanB · « **Reply #22 on:** March 23, 2014, 10:54:14 am »

Part of the indoctrination sticks, but it can lead to some fun debates if I am in the mood. Then again there are the Jehova's Witnesses down the road, right next door to the Scientologists, and the cluster of other churches as well and the local Mosque. At work there is the Dutch Reformed Church next door, and the Anglican right behind, and then the local prayer room across the street. All quite agreeable and willing to talk to each other, practical people who try to help all those in need. That is the one good point about organised religion.

VK5RC · « **Reply #23 on:** March 23, 2014, 11:10:19 am »

Tops is EEVblog forum
Next Is VKLogger forum, microwave subsection
then Time Nuts
Yahoo Groups HP-Agilent-equipment;
FMT nuts (measuring on air freq accurately)
VK Microwave group

steve30 · « **Reply #24 on:** March 23, 2014, 05:38:20 pm »

I've never used Electronics forums much. But these days I lurk around here, and on Martin Lorton's site.

linux-works · « **Reply #25 on:** March 23, 2014, 07:37:13 pm »

Quote from: peter.mitchell on March 23, 2014, 01:41:12 am

diyaudio is pretty good, but it is hard to avoid the audiophoolery/just plain wrong-ness sometimes, though,m it is pretty good as far as that goes for an audio forum.

I'll have to disagree about the phoolery there. head-fi - now THAT is fool of audiofulls (uhm, ok, the other way around)

I won't spend any time there since its the blind leading the blind. cannot stand the ignorance and the 'sales' oriented nature of that forum. if you dare offend the holy iec cable salesman or the oxygen-free skin-effect silver wire guys, you get banned. that forum exists to separate fools from their money.

but diyaudio has actual engineers who work in the field and have a lot of name recognition and respect. designers of op-amps (linear, ti, etc) are there, as are world class amp and digital audio designers. people produce boards and do peer review of their designs. its a great site and there are not many 'phools' there. at the end of each year (around october) there is an event that everyone looks forward to called 'burning amp' (lol) and we get together to do demos, talks, exchange info and have a few beers at dinner when its all over.

there are a lot of junk audio sites but diyaudio is one of the best and most trusted ones for non-BS info.

M4trix · « **Reply #26 on:** March 23, 2014, 08:25:03 pm »

Quote from: linux-works on March 23, 2014, 07:37:13 pm

but diyaudio has actual engineers who work in the field and have a lot of name recognition and respect. designers of op-amps (linear, ti, etc) are there, as are world class amp and digital audio designers. people produce boards and do peer review of their designs. its a great site and there are not many 'phools' there. at the end of each year (around october) there is an event that everyone looks forward to called 'burning amp' (lol) and we get together to do demos, talks, exchange info and have a few beers at dinner when its all over.

there are a lot of junk audio sites but diyaudio is one of the best and most trusted ones for non-BS info.

+1

AndrejaKo · « **Reply #27 on:** March 23, 2014, 08:33:39 pm »

The only forum I regularly visit is EEVblog forum. I'm also very often on http://electronics.stackexchange.com/. It's not actually a forum, but a questions and answers site.

Macbeth · « **Reply #28 on:** March 23, 2014, 08:42:34 pm »

Pretty much all of the above - but I like to check out http://www.sonsivri.to/forum/index.php on the odd occasion too.

Rigby · « **Reply #29 on:** March 23, 2014, 10:51:45 pm »

I enjoy spending time in the electronics sections of arcade game forums. It is straight-up hilarious to read how people troubleshoot their CRT monitors. There are several EXTREMELY sharp folks in there, but they don't participate a lot because the general skill level is so low. Even my dumb-ass can figure out a lot of the stuff they struggle with.

jancumps · « **Reply #30 on:** March 23, 2014, 11:16:19 pm »

I am a member of the AudioKarma forum for years with 1000's of posts, and am I enjoy visiting it every day.
That doesn't stop me from enjoying Dave's audiofoolery videos

. I'm just myself, with multiple interests - and with a firm intention to only have fun on forums. I walk away from not so interesting subjects and fights. I find no pleasure in igniting them.

On the JavaRanch forum (dedicated to software, more than 10.000 visitors on a busy day) I'm one of the moderators - for the JDBC and certification forums. That's a forum where I spend some time each day to extinguish bush fires and remove spam. That job learns me that the audience mix and passion of members of forums is similar.

Rigby · « **Reply #31 on:** March 24, 2014, 04:01:28 am »

ooh, don't mention Java here. they'll string you up by your underpants and scream "Java is slow and bloated, and a language for babies in diapers" and other 15-year-old misconceptions.

Legion · « **Reply #32 on:** March 24, 2014, 04:11:01 am »

Quote from: Rigby on March 24, 2014, 04:01:28 am

ooh, don't mention Java here. they'll string you up by your underpants and scream "Java is slow and bloated, and a language for babies in diapers" and other 15-year-old misconceptions.

I know, right. The diapers are totally optional.


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