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[Jeff Barlow <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Andrew's approach. Power flags are just a hack to suppress
a valid error message. If there's a power flag on a net ERC will still
be happy even after you accidentally delete the component that actually
supplies the power.

On 02/06/2016 06:14 PM, Andrew Zonenberg wrote:
> It still works if you adopt the approach fully. I make separate
> components "POWER_INDUCTOR" etc that have one terminal a power input
> and the other a power output.
>
> On 06/02/16 09:55, André S. wrote:
> > >This may work when the output is directly connected to the net. But
> > >if you have some output/input filter behind it this will not work
> > >as expected, you still need the power flag then.
> > >
> > >André

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Later,
Jeff