[sdiy] beginner schematic book

[synth at charlielamm.com]

I recently considered myself a beginner and sometimes still feel like one.

As far as what helped me, I agree...Forrest Mims is a great series of
books for an absolute beginner.  I have heard there are mistakes in his
books, but for me, the Mims stuff took the sting out of real basics like
using a transistor as a switch, or ohms law, or how not to fry a diode.

For me, AOE was intimidating at first, even though it has not much math.
Now that my feet are wet, I can get more out of it, but as a beginner it
was pretty far beyond what I could understand.

--CL

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Dj wrote:

> 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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