hawley@adobe.COM (Steve Hawley) (05/17/91)
I've been a tinker in electronics for several and have several (mis)conceptions about the way the various components work together. For the most part, I see electronic components as tinker toys. Ie, you give me a schematic, and I'm very comfortable putting it together and finding correct substitutions for parts (ie, for resistors, caps, op-amps). This means that I can build, but I don't really understand what I'm building. I've decided that I would like to have the (or at least some) understanding as well. What I would like is a book that takes a practical compenent-oriented approach to this. For example, it would present a schematic for (say) a circuit that can be used to make a simple momentary SPST or DPDT switch act like a push-on/push-off SPSDT or DPDT and explain how/why it works. There are a skillion things I'd like to design/build but I simply don't have the knowledge and can't find an appropriate design. For example, I picked up a solar panel from Edmund several years back, and I'd like to turn it into a regulated power supply for either a portable CD player or a Lynx LCD video game. The trouble is I pull out the data sheets for voltage regulators and just go "duh..." Please e-mail book suggestions. Steve Hawley hawley@adobe.com -- "Did you know that a cow was *MURDERED* to make that jacket?" "Yes. I didn't think there were any witnesses, so I guess I'll have to kill you too." -Jake Johansen