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My Test & Measurement Theory & Servicing Book
« on: August 29, 2020, 10:18:07 am »
Hi!

I have begun work on a three–year project to write a very large book on the Theory and Servicing of Test & Measurement Equipment of the type most likely to be collected by hobbyists, experimenters, retired engineers, etc., so I'm not covering the 3458A, 4700/4800/Fluke Calibrators, umpteen–thousand–£ HP LCR Meters, VNAs, etc., all of this class of equipment I shall leave to this Forum!

If, however, you want to buy untested "college–lab" type equipment from eBay, or have got things stored away in attics, etc, then my book will cater for you!

The book currently contains, as planned so far, 180 chapters written over 16 parts/sections plus a final appendix at the end.

A selection of useful projects to build is intended to be included in each section, and the final part 16 will contain practical repair examples from my own collection of faulty T & M!

The work will be C.C. Licenced and free to download, with a GitHub Repository containing document source files, images, fonts, etc.

Where Members here have repair accounts of equipment of useful pieces of equipment worth including, with pics, I shall be contacting the Member concerned by P.M. for permission to reuse their photos, and the appropriate acknowledgements will be stated!

PCB Gerber/design files,  code, Arduino sketches, hex, etc., etc., where included in the projects quoted, will be of my own desgn wherever possible and will be posted in the folder pertaining to the chapter concerned!

For more details, see:–

https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/showthread.php?t=166405

The idea for this book was spawned by a general disatisfaction with the current commercially available literature, nearly all of it being page after page of mathematics and equations, and the practical explanation of the circuit operation is too often glossed over, and practical fault finding is info is virtually non existent in these books!

Chris Williams
« Last Edit: August 29, 2020, 01:03:08 pm by Chris56000 »
It's an enigma that's what it is!! This thing's not fixed because it doesn't want to be fixed!!
 
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Offline joeqsmith

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Re: My Test & Measurement Theory & Servicing Book
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2020, 07:19:19 pm »
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I have begun work on a three–year project to write a very large book on the Theory and Servicing of Test & Measurement Equipment of the type most likely to be collected by hobbyists, experimenters, retired engineers, etc., so I'm not covering the 3458A, 4700/4800/Fluke Calibrators, umpteen–thousand–£ HP LCR Meters, VNAs, etc., all of this class of equipment I shall leave to this Forum!

I don't know how you would begin to define "most likely" but looking over your outline, you seem to have a several chapters dedicated to vintage analog meters.  While I personally have no use for such a device, I would have thought the internet would have this topic covered in spades.   

It's interesting that VNAs are not covered but I would say that area seen more growth than any other with the release of the NanoVNA.   

Good luck with it.   

Ch 3 Introduction to Electronic Measurements
Ch 4 The Moving Iron and Moving Coil Meter

Ch 8 Introduction to the Valve Voltmeter
Ch 9 Practical Valve Voltmeter circuits explained
Ch 10 Fault Finding and Repair of Valve Voltmeters

Ch 12 A Commercial Design Analysed – The Avo EA113 Electronic Voltmeter
Ch 13 Fault Finding and Repair of Transistorised Voltmeters
Ch 14 Build a High Stability Valve Voltmeter


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