Hello all,
Quick question, I have a POE power that I am connecting things to. IN the original schematic, they labeled it as a “generic” power because I think that the voltage is not a set voltage. I don’t think that the way they labelled it is a standard way.
What are some standard ways of labeling the power? For me, I always have power facing up (unless it is negative voltage which faces down). I am thinking to use the pwr flag component for these.
Passive label (since you don’t know the voltage) and Pwr Flag… would that work?
What do you mean by generic power symbol? There are already symbols that don’t mention the voltage, could you use one of those? Or make your own power symbol if you want one not provided.
The PWR_FLAG is a special kind of power symbol. A normal power symbol contains a pin that has a global label with the same name as the symbol and connects all the places it’s attached to. All the GNDs are connected, all the +5Vs are connected and so forth. But separate PWR_FLAGs are not connected. Another difference is that a PWR_FLAG has a pin of type Power Output, but normal power symbols have a pin of type Power Input.
Certainly the logical thing would be to label it as meaningfully as possible. There would need to be a minimum and maximum. So if it is a range of +40 to +70 you could logically label it something like +Vin_40_70.
If you prefer to label it illogically, you could call it Fipgark.
I agree, I think that this is the correct answer