What are the beginners reading?

[Mochaboy]

I had a sort of epiphany today.

I have a burned out circuit board on my bench handed to me by a friend.  There's a chipped SMD capacitor on there and I figured if I could just measure that part and order and equivalent, I can fix this.  So I bought a capacitance meter and discovered it was a 22pf capacitor. 

The only other time, I'd come across that was when I was hooking up an atmega 328p to an external crystal and that got me thinking...why 22pf?  Heck why any part for that matter.

It was high time that I face my demons and start working my way forward sensibly rather than reading one off blog posts and picking up tidbits along the way.

Long story short - I'm starting to build my library and after 10 minutes of flipping around on Amazon, I came across this title.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071802363/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

What are you guys reading?

Cheers

Mocha

hah - no sooner did I hit enter did I notice the 3rd sticky

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/electronics-primers-course-material-and-books/

dammit!

[PA0PBZ]

I have a burned out circuit board on my bench handed to me by a friend.  There's a chipped SMD capacitor on there and I figured if I could just measure that part and order and equivalent, I can fix this.  So I bought a capacitance meter and discovered it was a 22pf capacitor. 

Not sure if I read this correctly, but: You have a failed part (chipped = something wrong with it?) and then you measure it and assume that the measurement tells you what the original part was? 

[Mochaboy]

I left out the part where I have a second working model of that board, so yes, I measured the working board to get the broken component's pf value.

[PA0PBZ]

Right, that explains a lot!

[robrenz]

Buy "Practical Electronics for Inventors" 3rd edition only.  Hands down the most usefull single book on general electronics and basic electrical.  You will thank me after just browsing thru it.
Here is is is the table of contents (using the look inside feature on amazon)  Just scroll down to see the table of contents.

[kd7eir]

Buy "Practical Electronics for Inventors" 3rd edition only.  Hands down the most usefull single book on general electronics and basic electrical.  You will thank me after just browsing thru it.
Here is is is the table of contents (using the look inside feature on amazon)  Just scroll down to see the table of contents.

I completely agree with this suggestion.  I actually own two copies of the 3rd edition for some silly reason!