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Hello, advice on my lab, and what solder to buy please
HobGoblyn:
--- Quote from: Johnboy on January 02, 2020, 07:59:39 pm ---
Just thought I should point out that "Learning The Art of Electronics" is the companion volume to the third edition of "The Art of Electronics" and not the second edition. The companion volume for the second edition is called "Student Manual for the Art of Electronics".
If you've already bought the books, don't panic. The third edition of the main textbook complements the second edition; a lot of people hang on to the second edition anyway, as it does contain some things that were not updated/added to the new edition (and a dedicated RF chapter in particular, IIRC). At one point during the writing, the 3rd edition was described by Winston Hill as a sort of "additional" volume, rather than standalone ("keep your 2nd edition" he said), but from what I've seen of it they may have eventually dropped that angle. The first chapters of each, at least, are virtually identical.
As to the companion volumes:
I have not actually had a look at "Learning the Art of Electronics" to see what has been changed from the earlier "Student Manual for the Art of Electronics", but there are others on this forum who might supply that information. You may just have to do some hunting around within the newer lab manual to see what best applies to the layout of the older textbook.
Edited for clarity
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Thanks. I bought the 2nd edition second hand, ex library book, and didn’t cost much at all.
I was also going to order the 3rd edition in a few weeks, but according to the “Learning the Art of Electronics” that I’ve just had delivered, it states in the preface,
--- Quote --- If any reader is acquainted with the student manual published in 1989 to accompany the second edition of “The Art of Electronics”, it may be worth noting principle differences between this book and that one. First, this book means to be self sufficient, whereas the earlier book was meant to be read along side the larger work.
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HobGoblyn:
--- Quote from: tooki on January 02, 2020, 12:24:46 pm ---
Actually this reminds me of one other suggestion I had: organization. How to store and organize tools and parts quickly becomes an issue. People have different ways of doing it, so just start thinking about it already — do you want boxes? Tubs? Drawers? Baggies? Binders? How will you label them — printed labels? Handwritten labels? Marker? And how do you want them sorted?
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Hehe, a lot of the stuff arrived today.
I have a 5ft x 3ft (152cm x 91cm) table.
It looked big with nothing on it.
Am now hunting through the likes of amazon to find suitable storage :)
Sadly, at present, I don't have a permanent place, the table is our dining room table (mind you, it's only used a few times a year), so no shelves etc.
many thanks
tooki:
Oh man don’t I know that problem. My bedroom currently looks like a war zone or post-earthquake disaster scene, just from pulling out tubs to get to the tools and parts I needed to build some test leads yesterday, and some breadboard tinkering...
This is one aspect where I do wish I were rich, so that I could have a separate 1000sqft/100sqm workshop, half electronics, half mechanical. But with Zurich rent, that ain’t happening...
HobGoblyn:
Started putting my lab together.
Already completely run out of space.
Attached pics show table, anti static connector, table with all main bits on it.
As I can't put shelves up, going to make a shelf that sits on the table along the lines of my final attached pic. Then hopefully I will have space for components and tools
HobGoblyn:
13 days later and I'm finished. Bound to be lots of reorganisation as I start learning, bound to be things I've forgotten.
Pleased how it's turned out so far, time will tell :)
Only mistake is for some reason I ordered the wrong 68 ohm resistors, they are 2W and about 4 times the size of the others, so need to order the correct ones.
Here's many pics of the finished product. Last 2 pics are my Arduino stuff.
I also got a box of 630 Electolytic capacitors going from 0.1uf to 1000uf that I forgot to take a pic of
Now to start making things :)
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