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Essential electronics reading for a Mechanic?
tggzzz:
OK, that's a sensible honest response :)
Good news: you can learn. If you've done that in one field, you can use the same attitude and techniques to do it in another.
Bad news: it takes time. There's a fashionable meme that it takes 10000 hours to become an expert. Feel free to play around with the definition of "expert" and the time :) Nonetheless, the concept is sound, as you are well aware from your previous experiences.
Good news: it takes time. It is a never-ending journey :) Now I'm retired I can learn just the things that interest me :)
Overall, work out the next small thing you don't know. Then find out about that. Once you have done that a few times, you will begin to get a feel for the interconnecting and/or underlying things you don't understand. Rinse and repeat.
rhb:
I have fixed everything but watches and broken hearts. Often with *NO* service data in situations where I had to guess how to take it apart.
Repair is a thought process in which you compare your idea of how something works to the tests you make until you isolate the fault. I've never met anyone who was skilled at fixing things with whom I could not find tremendous common ground. People usually get hooked on repair work if they stick at it until they are good at it.
Auto repair now requires 4 years of intensive college level training to really be good. At least a year of that is electronics and embedded computer systems and sensors.
Malvino is a trade school text and with a fist full of parts, solderless breadboard and DMM & DSO the reader will master the basics. From there it's applying that to the problem at hand.
Have Fun!
Reg
Shock:
Here is a list I made of repair books, most of them are print. If anythings useful please leave a thanks.
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/repair/repair-and-service-books-magazines-dvds/
Shock:
--- Quote from: rhb on March 11, 2024, 02:25:41 pm ---I recommend any older edition of "Electronic Principles" by Albert Malvino.
--- End quote ---
I like this book as well, not sure about early editions but the 8th is easy to read. It's not a hard core engineering book, more what you would learn at trade school (as rhb also mentioned).
Same goes for Intro to Basic Electricity and Technology by Earl Gates.
But these are both texts and not really focused on diagnosing circuit faults from a repair perspective. For that I'd probably pickup Electronic Troubleshooting - 2nd Edition - Jerome E. Oleksy
Supernaut:
Thank you all for the suggestions so far, very extensive list of books to work my way through which il make full use of.
As it stands ive currently bought;
Linear Applications Handbook - A Guide To Linear Circuit Design - Linear Technology
Linear Integrated Circuits and MOSFET's - RCA
Motorola High Speed Switching Transistor Handbook - Motorola
The Pye Book Of Audio
Electrical And Electronic Principles - Ian Mackenzie - (looks like a 70's publication, probably used in colleges etc)
The Practical Electricians Pocketbook - Osram - 1950
Vacuum Tube Logic Book (after some research I discovered this book is for a line of amplifiers from the USA known as VTL, I hadn't heard of them and I just assumed it was a general knowledge book on valves)
Il go over the names of books people have suggested in here and il add a few of those to my collection too, the books mentioned above have all been bought within the last few days so im waiting on them arriving in the post. Each book only cost a few pounds, so even if only 25% is useful to me its still money well spent in my mind.
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