I would say the 2W should be used. I say this because it would be exceptional to spec 2W and there is probably good reason to do so, though I do not know that reason. Often times people with experience with the design reason that a different value will work. Or they find that the component doesn't mechanically fit into the modified design. (I will admit to doing this myself) I suspect that the resistor periodically is dissipating 1W (1W of tolerance). If this is the case, after many cycles, even years, the 1/2W will fail. I will share some experience. I put 2W (12V/0.15A) into a 2W resistor. I went to pick up the board and grabbed it by the resistor and burnt the crap out of my fingers. Overdesigning is good. Cautionary tale: Mrs. Fiorina told the printer mech designers that they make the printers too good and that they should make them cheaper. The company of which she was CEO is not doing so good today.

Hi all, After 2 years I restarted working my Home sensors and my MySensors projects. I want to create some PCB and decided to start working with KiCAT. I'm using version 5.1 and was able to import libraries and assign 3d shapes to MySensor components. However, the MySensors 3d shapes look to be wrong. Their size is too big when compared with KiCAT standard components. Has anyone of you gone through this issue? Any workaround? Thanks in advance.

Hi2All! Surprising is here. After about 24hours I refresh HA and suddenly my motion sensor was integrated. There is also second entity > battery : 0 , have to look deeper into that for understanding. Need to change little in the sketch, because don't want every short time 'no movement' so only when there is motion and maybe once a hour indication sensor is alive. Meantime I found 3 other good threats: https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/11200/finally-progress-evidence-based-radio-testing-method-and-capacitors https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/1664/which-are-the-best-nrf24l01-modules/27 https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/9550/build-a-reliable-power-supply-chain Very usefull for me also finally progress because of lacking time in the past. Great jobs are done here! Thanks for this all of you guys or girls!

@goblin feel free to share concrete error messages or questions. We might be able to help on well-described problems. Otherwise - hope ChatGPT can help you ;-)

I am making an open source 3d printer as my minor project for college but i am stuck as my motors are not functioning properly, either they are just vibrating at their place or not working at all. I am using Nema 17 motors with A4998 stepper driver and Aurdino Mega 2560. I googled how to know the correct Tx and Rx terminals, as I thought it was problem, but now my motor is not functioning at all when i run it individually with the Arduino, power supply and stepper driver. Can you please tell me how I should get my motors to run? Also the motors are local and so are most of the components.