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Electronics Books Recommendations

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Posted by Bob K. on November 6, 1999 at 04:43:01

I have recently been bitten by the DIY bug and have even built a couple of kits by carefully following extremely detailed directions (I can't tell you what a thrill it was to turn on a tube amp I built, and it worked, even if I didn't know what I had done). I've bought a multimeter and done those things where you measure very simple circuits with batteries and resistors. I bought a scientific calculator and calculated resistors in parallel. But I have absolutely no scientific or electronics background, and probably no aptitude either (in college, I took courses like "Astronomy: The Pretty Pictures" to fulfill the science/math requirement). I have been trying to learn by reading and have gleaned some of the basics (e.g., Ohms law, transformers have turns rations that correspond to voltage up and down, half-wave and full-wave rectifiers, what capacitors do, sort of, the basics about how tubes work, etc.). The problem is that the books I've gotten seem either too easy or too hard -- or both. Typically, they start with those little rectangular diagrams with a battery or AC source on one side and a resistor or capacitor or diode or two on the other. That I get. Then on the next page, there's a diagram of a full blown amp circuit with grounds (what on earth is a ground, anyway?) and pluses and minuses, and I can't figure out for the life of me what's going on. I haven't found a book that takes one of these circuits and explains how the electricty flows through it (e.g., the little electrons start at point x, they then go to point y, etc.). Given this background, do any of you have recommendations on books that might bridge the gap? Thanks in advance for your help.

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