You can imagine that after a while, a “rats nest” of twisted, jumbled meter leads and jumper leads were all over the place - quite annoying! Then, when any change was needed or performed, it was swapping leads back and forth again. Common scenario: Measure the variac’s set voltage, connect load, disconnect DMM and change leads for current measurement, reconnect everything, and hook up to load. To perform tests in this manner, it was awkward to say the least. Up until recently, my barebones test setup consisted of a two amp variac, a DMM, and a collection of test/jumper leads.

I think other books that cover more basic stuff are the Richard Dorf’s, but still is very academic oriented with a strong mathematical support so again, no the cup of tee for everyone.Īs you can see I have no problem to find university text books.For the last 10 years, I have needed to use a variac for various bench testing. You can follow this book with MIT open course 6002, with video lectures of the author of the book, and they are very funny! Definitely goes toward the analog theory for building digital ICs. There are a lot of books on the market, but one book that cover similar areas as the aforemencioned one´s is the Anant Agarwal, “Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits.” Starts more with KCL and KVL and passive components to end up working with CMOS. I am not saying this is bad at all, I just pointing the area covered and I am indeed in love with Sedra’s as I have a lot fun with the Maths. The books about you were speaking are all covering more or less the same subject, and in my opinion they are focused on analog integrated circuit design, of course some things learnt on those can be applied to discrete circuits.

Former guest Jeremy Blum just released the second edition of Exploring Arduinoįirst comment I do in my live on the Internet after more than 20 years on the field (I am frustated software developer, but thats another story) However, the stuff you do guys is amazing and I love study about electronics and books so I would like to share my hummble experience for first time on my live.

The X Chapters of Art of Electronics – Expanded chapters.

Dave is doing (actually already posted) a textbook review.

The new “AI” solution for getting PCBs designed….

Teddy running the BranchEducation about how do PCBs work.

Discord/Slack/Discourse are all kind of a mess for tracking what’s going on.

Dave tracks forums just by leaving tabs open.

Chris joined a mailing list about fixing up HP/Agilent/Keysight gear.

Test gear anonymous thread on EEVblog forum.

They’re 60 years old and still cost $50-$100 each.

Dave just got some transfer standard capacitors.

Shahriar regularly buys and repairs high cost gear.

Neither Dave nor Chris has paid 4 digits for test gear recently.

Chris is planning on making a reference design when things are slow.

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