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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz
If I can't understand what you are talking about, a lot of folks won't be able to follow it.
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Until you made the claim that this couldn't be followed it seemed plenty of people were actually following it.
So if they are lost and not following the topic (and everyone is probably lost now or soon will be because of the side-track):
1. It's not interesting enough to them to take the time to ask about something.
2. They are worried about distracting the topic as this has.
3. They are intimidated that if they ask the question or make an error they'll get themselves attacked.
I've made every effort to explain myself even when I'm wrong. When I am wrong I apologize generally. However, once that is out of the way it doesn't seem to stop there. So yes, I do see why someone might feel that participation might have negative results.
It's nothing personal to anyone. It's a very valid concern. It's like being incredibly sensitive about grammar. Acceptable grammar changes with time. So what might be correct in one English standard today, in about 5 years might be entirely unacceptable. So do we not communicate because we might offend the resident grammar expert? No. We do our best. Then once the result is formal writing we insure the utmost accuracy.
I can't even say that TI managed that formal documentation process with the Jaguar responsibly. The documentation for the Jaguar has both grammatical and factual engineering errors. I see no apology or official attempt to correct from them. It's an electronic document...they don't even feel the need to fix that. It's somewhat hypocritical to put so much effort into worrying about brief brilliant communication when the official documentation for the product that started all this can't even communicate the proper operation of it's own H-Bridge and TI didn't think it important to fix that.
More importantly how bizarre is it that whenever Ether or other members who know about this error tell someone to read that section of the manual they have to post a warning that section is wrong. How handy really. So for all the rest of the students out there that don't happen to have the benefit of that disclaimer how much time do they get to waste trying to figure out or worse memorize that error? How much damage can that officially sanctioned document from TI do before someone finally demands it be fixed? Read the manual sort of implies that effort was made to produce a proper manual to take as gospel.