[sdiy] beginner schematic book

[Dj]

What about Art of Electronics?

Dj


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Boracci" <mboracci at nfpcomputer.com>
To: "harrybissell" <harrybissell at prodigy.net>; <Nrthrnsol at aol.com>
Cc: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 10:53 PM
Subject: RE: [sdiy] beginner schematic book


> "Getting Started in Electronics" which is a ( light green ) Radio Shack
book
> is really great to start with. It does not teach schematic reading as a
> focus , but it is very easy to understand. The Engineer's mini-notebook
> series is also great for building blocks. They cover every basic type of
> circuit that can be used in a synthesizer.
>
> Forrest Mims Rocks!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> [mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf Of harrybissell
> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 1:46 AM
> To: Nrthrnsol at aol.com
> Cc: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] beginner schematic book
>
>
> Wow... "synth-lords"
> sounds good... maybe like star wars
> "the empire is secretly under the control
> of a synth-lord...
>
> anyway-
>
> (Hi Johnny)
>
> There was a book that radio shack used to publish, something
> like an encyclopedia of electronics.  I'll try to find out the
> name (a friend had it)
>
> I recommend magazines... I used to read Popular Electronics
> and Radio Electronics but they are long gone...
>
> A favorite of mine is to read data books from various manufacturers
> especially National Semiconductor...  AN-31 "op amp circuit collection"
> from their Linear Applications book is a favorite.
>
> The trick to schematics is to break them into functional blocks...
>
> these components form a preamp (and what is that?) and these are
> a filter (and what is that?) and these are the power supply.  Some of the
> (teehee) synth-lords who have web sites will sometimes analyze their
> own designs and publish what they did...
>
> Another favorite is the Design Ideas from EDN magazine, or (iirc)
> Design Notes from Electronic Design magazine.  These are trade
> magazines that are free to those in the industry, and cost huge bucks
> to those outside their 'criteria'... so be sure to call yourself a vice
> president
> of engineering, give yourself a nice company name and say you specify
> components regularly... and I bet you qualify. If you don't, apply again
> They actually REFUSED me once... I laughed because I had been receiving
> their
> mag for more than 20 years... funny... about a week after the refusal, the
> mags
> arrived at my door.
>
> Ideas for design are circuits sent in by readers, they pay them a nominal
> fee if they
> are published.  Not to toot my own horn,  but a recent Idea for Design of
> mine...
> for an envelope follower circuit... is there.  Our own (Lord :^) Mike
Irwin
> has a few
> VCA and oscillator circuits there, and there is a nice noise source by a
guy
> named
> Dick Cappels (I invited him to be a ~gasp~ synth-lord after reading that
> one... maybe
> he's lurking right now)
>
> My suggestion... find a simple circuit of something that you would like to
> build... or
> just understand... and either post it or send a link to it... I (or any
> other volunteer) could
> help you break it into blocks and understand each one a little at a time.
> Plan on adding
> to your knowledge forever though.....
>
> H^) harry
>
> Nrthrnsol at aol.com wrote:
>
> > hey synth lords
> > i am an absolute beginner
> > i know little about schematics and have completed a few small projects
> > i was wondering if you guys have any suggestions on a good book that
will
> help me understand schematics and translating them so i can take the
> schematic and build off it
> > any ideas
> > thank you
> > johnny
>
>
>
>
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