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Youtube "how to" videos are mostly useless

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tggzzz:

--- Quote from: IanB on March 22, 2024, 11:54:47 pm ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on March 22, 2024, 09:57:56 pm ---I have sufficient discernment to evaluate 10 sources.

I don't have time to evaluate 10 videos, but text takes much less time to evaluate.

Hence I don't watch random videos, only those recommended by other people with sufficient discernment.

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I can appreciate that, though I have developed a tendency to jump through a video to the middle or the end to start making an evaluation. I can quickly reject videos if I don't see any meat several minutes in.

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Strangely I can't. Well I can quickly jump to a random spot, but then it takes too much time to figure out the current context and listen to several sentences. Maybe 1 minute each time I skip. That's doubly true where you skip to a visual of a datasheet or slide, with a talking head explaining the relevant bits of the data sheet or slide. Better to just read the damn data sheet!

Even in a good video I would need to do that several times to find the nuggets that make the rest of the video worthwhile.

There's a lot to be said for formal scientific papers, which have an explicit abstract at the front, and conclusions at the end. You only have to read the middle if they contain something interestinfg or surprising.

jonovid:
I find interesting is the unauthorized use of electronic components video posts.
for example 555 timer as a AM radio  it works  TubeTimeUS

coppercone2:
that just means someone knows analog

armandine2:
just watched (usefully) w2aew on panel meters / d'Arsonval  - however I didn't use his test method or get the round numbers he did?  :palm:





soldar:

--- Quote from: armandine2 on March 24, 2024, 06:35:56 pm ---just watched (usefully) w2aew on panel meters / d'Arsonval  - however I didn't use his test method or get the round numbers he did?  :palm:
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That is a well done video. I would have added a couple things and possibly made it unnecessarily more complicated for beginners.

I have a crate full of old instruments of that type... which will probably never see use again.

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/show-your-multimeter!/msg5401139/#msg5401139

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