IBAM school is complete, now do I graduate?

[fred soop]

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Then add the fact that your flipping it over and looking at it in reverse doesn't help.
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working from schematics confuse me after spending most of my adult life working with blueprints
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Sometimes, redrawing the schematic so that it is arranged similar to the physical layout will help. Maybe even use separate lines to connect the ground and power connections rather than +/- and <g> symbols to also help layout the physical connections.