Recently while attempting to help a member I became annoyed that he was often slow to answer. After a while he mentioned that he was doing 10 things at once.
Suggestion: If someone is willing to spend their time helping you, give them 100% of your attention. Or as close to that as is possible. It is disrespectful of the helper not to do so. Shut down your other chats, close the door, do whatever it takes to minimize the distractions.
When asking for help in chat do not ask for help from every person that enters the chat room. That is annoying. Start a thread on ETO instead.
If you do not have time to stay online do not expect anyone to email you an answer.
When you ask for help on the forum or in chat be specific about what hardware you have. At best the quality of any answers depends on the quality of the information provided in the question.
If the person attempting to help you is going down the wrong road it is because you are expecting him to read your mind.
When you have a problem something must be wrong. After you check the obvious suspects, you need to check everything, even the parts that you think are good. Countless hours have been wasted because the member with the problem refused to do so.
Some people refuse to read the datasheets. They can be rather detailed and technical but this is a detailed and technical area. Tuff it out and learn to understand them. Over time it becomes easier. If you find them impossible to understand there is a good chance you need to go back to blinking LEDs.
Suggestion: If someone is willing to spend their time helping you, give them 100% of your attention. Or as close to that as is possible. It is disrespectful of the helper not to do so. Shut down your other chats, close the door, do whatever it takes to minimize the distractions.
When asking for help in chat do not ask for help from every person that enters the chat room. That is annoying. Start a thread on ETO instead.
If you do not have time to stay online do not expect anyone to email you an answer.
When you ask for help on the forum or in chat be specific about what hardware you have. At best the quality of any answers depends on the quality of the information provided in the question.
If the person attempting to help you is going down the wrong road it is because you are expecting him to read your mind.
When you have a problem something must be wrong. After you check the obvious suspects, you need to check everything, even the parts that you think are good. Countless hours have been wasted because the member with the problem refused to do so.
Some people refuse to read the datasheets. They can be rather detailed and technical but this is a detailed and technical area. Tuff it out and learn to understand them. Over time it becomes easier. If you find them impossible to understand there is a good chance you need to go back to blinking LEDs.
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