Hi! Agree...
It makes sense to reduce the options to 3-band and 4-band resistors... as the tolerance information is then implicit/redundant/irrelevant. It might be even sufficient to simply mark the 4th band as "optional". :-) This dialog could be much more nice/useful if we could simply choose the colors of one of these mystic colorful leaded things and the calculator shows the value for us... Currently, it doesn't really "calculate" anything. ;-) Additionally, since color codes are pretty old-school and rarely used in modern SMT, we could add tables for the newer EIA-96 coding systems. A quite nice realization is on: http://www.hobby-hour.com/electronics/smdcalc.php or http://www.resistorguide.com/resistor-smd-code/ Try to type in some EIA-96 codes... Regards, Clemens On 2017-02-25 07:25, Diego Herranz wrote: > Hi, > > Commit message: > " > Since for this tool the only difference for different tolerances > is the 4th band, which is present for tolerance <= 2% and not > present for 10%/5%, reduce radio choices to those two groups for > clarity. > > Fix a typo (4rd -> 4th) and rename one variable to make it > more descriptive as well. > " > > In my opinion, reducing the number of tolerance choices makes sense > and makes it easier to understand, however, I understand that this is > subjective and others may think differently. > > If you didn't want to include these changes, please let me know and I'll > create another patch for the typo only. > > Thanks, > Diego > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
