Go to your local library. Look in non-fiction for Dewey 621.31924 and see what's there on home wiring. Borrow one and read it. Pay particular attention to how to wrap the wire around the screw.
Maybe this:
Ultimate Guide: Wiring, 8th Updated Edition (Creative Homeowner) DIY Home Electrical Installations & Repairs from New Switches to Indoor & Outdoor Lighting with Step-by-Step Photos (Ultimate Guides) by Editors of Creative Homeowner
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1580117872/
If your library has it.
https://www.amazon.com/Electrical-Engineering-101-Everything-Probably/dp/0123860016
Here is a book I recommend, starts from day 1 stuff, you can flip around where you need. There is free PDF online as well I think. Besides that, if you have the funds, I recommend asking your parents for an Arduino set and some come with project idea books and how to approach them. Other than that you can use codeacademy or other programming websites to teach you step by step.
Good luck!
Do you own a book on home wiring? Go to your local library. Look in non-fiction for Dewey 621.31924 and see what's there on home wiring. Borrow one and read it. Pay particular attention to how to do this work. Details matter.
One example of such a book: Ultimate Guide: Wiring, 8th Updated Edition (Creative Homeowner) DIY Home Electrical Installations & Repairs from New Switches to Indoor & Outdoor Lighting with Step-by-Step Photos (Ultimate Guides) by Editors of Creative Homeowner
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1580117872/
>Ultimate Guide: Wiring, 8th Updated Edition (Creative Homeowner) DIY Home Electrical Installations & Repairs from New Switches to Indoor & Outdoor Lighting with Step-by-Step Photos (Ultimate Guides) by Editors of Creative Homeowner
Every public library has one or more books like this. Unless we steal them all, people will read them and try some of this stuff. And honestly, at least the books are edited by competent people (AFAIK) and warn about the dangers. They also show, in pictures, correct ways of working and thus are arguably better then the internet.
But unlike us, the books can't detect the arrogant and incompetent (a bad combination) and urge them to leave it to the pros. So it's not all bad.
Alors, y'a deux bon bouquins, malheureusement je ne connais pas les titres en francais (si ils existent).
Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition, C'est juste une bible sur l'elec, ça couvre tous les trucs de base et un avec un certain niveau de profondeur. C'est un bon morceau à lire par contre, genre 5kg de papier bible.
How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic, Second Edition, C'est beaucoup plus pratique sur le comment s'y prendre, les outils, la logique pour réparer des trucs. Après tu seras forcément limité par ce que tu comprends du 1er.
It could be simple. But if you find more wires in there than you expect, well, that's when we get posts from people who can't figure out where they all go.
An electrician can also spot some other things there that need attention that you would ignore. You're getting a repair and a free check up when you hire a professional.
If you want to try, read up on the work first. Here's one example:
Ultimate Guide: Wiring, 8th Updated Edition (Creative Homeowner) DIY Home Electrical Installations & Repairs from New Switches to Indoor & Outdoor Lighting with Step-by-Step Photos (Ultimate Guides) by Editors of Creative Homeowner
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1580117872/
Or, go to your local library. Look in non-fiction for Dewey 621.31924 and see what's there.
Electrical Engineering 101: Everything You Should Have Learned in School...but Probably Didn't By Darren Ashby. Excellent resource to brush up and tune-up your skills
There are some books on domestic wiring that don't have awful reviews...
If you want to take it further than knowing how to replace a wall switch or install a new outlet, I would probably actually start by learning about electronic circuits - it gives you about all the knowledge you need to navigate 110V household wiring, but also helps you understand the operation and failure modes of many of the things you actually plug into the outlet. Also easier to experiment and have fun without hurting yourself. This is a pretty good and accessible book.
Outside of that, a lot of the electrician-by-trade knowledge is about complying with building codes and dealing with higher-voltage circuits common in commercial and industrial settings, which is of very limited relevance to mere mortals. So, if you want to be an electrician-but-not-really-an-electrician, the electronic stuff is really where the meat is. For household wiring, once you figure out n-way switches, the novelty wears off...
The only two piece of advice I have is (1) don't half-ass it with safety - like with guns, there should be always at least two things standing between you and death - don't just assume you flipped the right breaker, etc; and (2) don't jury-rig shitty wiring - code compliance is one thing, but the spit-and-duct-tape approach is not worth the price you're gonna pay when it comes undone 5, 10, or 15 years later and burns down your house.
Finding this sort of fault is frustrating. We have to guess at how the wiring is run in your house. Go to your local library. Look in non-fiction for Dewey 621.31924 and see what's there on home wiring. Borrow one and read it. Pay particular attention to anything on finding faults.
Or buy something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1580117872/
Or same thing on eBay.
Start here: https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/
Follow up with YouTube videos on particular topics that are confusing/interesting.
As for a great book, check out Practical Electronics for Inventors. Get the book, not the kindle version, which apparently has some formatting issues and stuff missing.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1259587541/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_PGN4W8MATXTD2R7Z158C
Practical Electronics for Inventors. Get the book, not the kindle version, which apparently has some formatting issues and stuff missing.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1259587541/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_PGN4W8MATXTD2R7Z158C
As a student, I can recommend "Practical Electronics For Inventors, Fourth Edition" by Paul Scherz, accompanied by the occasional youtube video and reddit question :) You can buy it from Amazon here
I havent read any others, so I cant compare the quality, but you can go through it like a book and be able to understand everything. You may run into some problems in the real world that requires some fairly advanced calculus, which the book doesn't cover. (It does cover where to apply it, just not how). It is really extensive (1256 pages on my desktop e-reader), so if you have an idea for something specific you want to build, there might be something more efficient out there :)
I would think that not a lot of electronics books, if any, explain the math in full, so I would suggest that you find an online source for whatever specific piece of math you've run into. I can recommend Kahn academy.
Good luck :)
This is an awesome intro book to electronics. Covers all the basics, including how to read diagrams and identify components. Which is beyond important.
I did an EET program in Canada before EE on power systems. We used Electrical Machines, Drives and Power Systems. It covers the operation and application of 3 phase, transformer, motors and alternators plus more industrial stuff. Doesn't get deep into the design but focuses more on the practical explaining the machines and what you'd need to know to work with them without getting into math past phasors.
Here is the book I used for my Energy Devices class, I found it really useful for most anything that you would come across on a beginner level. Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems
Almost everything I know (and it's not that much believe me) comes from a couple of goods books on the subject (I recommend Practical Electronics for Inventors) and from YouTube (where I've watched every Ben Eater videos if you're into bare metal computing which I'm really fond of).
It's amazing what you can learn online theses days.
To answer your questions, the tool left of the soldering iron is Siglent SDS 1104 X-E 4 Channel Oscilloscope. It allows you to measure voltage across some very time interval. Perfect for measuring and studying the frequency, amplitude and shapes of waveforms. It's one of the most essential tool you can get after getting a decent multi-meter.
The other one on the far left is a FeelElec FY6900 Waveform Generator, think of it as a power supply for AC instead of DC. It can generate sine, square and trig waveform of varying frequency and amplitude. Let's say you want to build a full bridge rectifier which is a fun little beginner project. You'd use one of them to generate the AC current input.
>Share your knowledge without cutting down those with less.
There are many many poor sources of information on the Internet, especially on YouTube. Good production does not mean the content is worth much, or anything. However people like those who responded to me above take what is presented at face value as "correct" which in many cases leads to poor decision-making and poor practices. That may be expensive. In some cases, such as in this video, it leads to accepting life-threatening risk unaware that the risk is being taken.
I can't bear to watch any other videos on the posted YouTube channel so my conclusions are based on that single product. I stand by my assessment that the young couple don't know what they are doing. They are making things up as they go along. They would have been much better off and spent less money cultivating a (perhaps beer-based) relationship with an experienced marine mechanic and asking questions. Or reading any one of several good books on marine diesel engines. Or ask whoever they bought exhaust hose from. Instead, not knowing what they don't know, they dove in spending more time and money than they should have with a result less safe than it could have been.
There comes a point where the best way to share knowledge is to say "don't listen to these people."
Someone posted that this couple has been on boats for ten years. That isn't relevant, especially for people themselves learning (or not) on the fly with no structured instruction. There is a big difference between ten years experience and one year of experience repeated ten times. This is a basic tenet of engineering.
TL;DR: These young people are a hazard to themselves and others.
All About Circuits has a pretty good primer for all things EE
Can also recommend the book Practical Electronics for Inventors by Sherz and Monk. Typically you'll see The Art of Electronics recommended as the bible of EE when it comes to books also.
It is truly the bible of electronics.
It's great but to start it's often a bit violent,
I advise you to read this one : https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Fourth-Scherz/dp/1259587541/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=QBLGLJURDU5&keywords=inventor+for+electronic&qid=1664644736&s=books&sprefix=inventor+for+electronic%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C141&a...
Electrical Engineering 101: Everything You Should Have Learned in School...but Probably Didn't https://www.amazon.com/dp/0123860016/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_GCB59X9T5V8QRHF03KS8
This is a decent book to get the ball rolling. Also, CU Boulder has an online MS-EE that you should look into. It’s performance based so there are no admissions.
Physics major here who went on to also get a BSEE, so I'm probably uniquely qualified to understand your situation. In my physics program we covered the basics of electric circuits and had a circuits lab, but really stopped short of any actual circuit analysis. Unless you're an unusually motivated person, I think approaching this from the academic construct is going to be difficult. But, to answer your question anyway: - Circuits I: Intro to circuit analysis. Kirchoff's voltage and current laws, node and loop analysis, basic passive circuit elements, independent and dependent voltage and current sources, Bode plots, AC analysis, time domain representation of circuits, frequency domain / complex representations of circuits, Laplace transforms
Circuits II: Diodes, operational amplifiers (black box), transistors. My course mostly focused on MOSFETS - DC analysis, small signal models, basic amplifier structures. Similar things for BJT, but less depth
Analog and Digital Circuits: Intro to cascode amplifiers, high frequency amplifier analysis, more detail on amplifier configurations, 6T memory structures, inverters, digital rise/fall time / timing analysis, logic gate synthesis
Those were the basic courses. From there it was your choice in how much deeper you wanted to go.
In your case, I would probably pick up a hobbyist electronics book, like Practical Electronics for Inventors: https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Fourth-Scherz/dp/1259587541
In my opinion, the “Practical Electronics for Inventors” book does a pretty good job of explaining the fundamentals at an approachable level.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1259587541/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_D4FN7YETAEFRKC9V646J
This book the Ultimate Wiring Book is pretty good https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Guide-Installations-Step-Step/dp/1580117872 but it's from 2017. So it's not up to the latest code. It will show you how to do basic work but you'll need to check something like Ugly's book to make sure its current code. There is supposed to be a new one coming out that covers the 2020 Code.
Electric machines, drives and power systems by Theodore Wildi. This is the book I used for my EET program. It'll go in depth into 3 phase, different types of motor & generator applications and operation, different transformer configurations and power systems stuff more tailored at utilities. There's also control and plc stuff in there too. It's very practical but there's still a lot of math and it's about as deep as you can go before you need calculus. You'll need to learn complex numbers and how those relate to phasors to understand it.
> * Tu as appris en autodidacte, donc ? En mode pure pratique, ou as-tu des livres à conseiller ?
Niveau bouquins il y en a de très bons :
"Dépannages électriques domestiques". Super bien expliqué, excellents schémas. De façon générale tous les livres David Fedullo et Thierry Gallauziaux sont top pour le bricolage.
Sinon pour des connaissances électronique en général "Practical electronics for inventors".
Tbh, for me its a lot of reading/youtube. Guys like BigClive and AvE can teach a lot, and I can't recommend Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition enough.
I never went to school for electrical engineering but am a hardware technician by training. This book helped immensely. Best of luck.