basic circuits

[fusekiller]

Hi,

thanks for all the excellent blog videos so far!

I'd like to see a video of some basic beginner stuff like basic circuits of transistors, mosfets, opamps etc.
Not how to calculate current, resistors etc. exactly (that can be looked up easily) but from a practical view.

Personally, I'd like to have the following questions answered:
* When to use a transistor or a mosfet for switching
* what what are reasonable resistor/transistor (or mosfet?) combinations for current amplification of digital signals

[smashedProton]

Ben Krasnow has some good shit, so does afrotechmods

[KuchateK]

Not only digital, analog too.

I really enjoyed Ben's video about transistors. Even if I knew most of this stuff it was interesting, useful and great memory refresh. I would love to see whole series of videos like that.

[shadowcomputer]

I second the idea. I would love to see a video on choosing transistors for projects!

[McMonster]

I think I see this posted every once in a while. The problem is there's so many applications for a transistor that it's hard to cover even the basics in a single video. If you watch all Dave's videos you can catch a lot of small bits that add up nicely with some additional readings (like The Art of Electronics for example) and tutorials.

[dark_hawk]

Watching dave make some basic circuits would be really nice.
Notice how the 3 parts soldering tutorials are among the top 5 viewed videos on the blog because I think they are a aimed mainly at the newbies like us.