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Interesting. I have more reading to do. But that's good. Hmmm I could have sworn there was a section in this book that talked about ohms law could t be used to both ways or something or other. Oh well.

Horowitz and Hill's Art of Electronics is kind of the gold standard among EE textbooks.

Taking an "electronics but not for EE's" course, we used "Practical Electronics for Inventors". I thought it did a decent job of introducing concepts, but I remember admittedly little about how well it taught the mathematics.

Wow, thanks fro the great answers /u/crb3 ! Really interesting stuff.

Number 3 I'm going to read through really slowly again to try to makes sure I get it all. Reverse protection diode makes sense. I think I can leave it out since I am using only 9v DC from the wall wart so it'd be hard to get it backwards like a battery. It seems like increasing the value of C3 would allow a larger reservoir of power and less sag?

One question, why does it matter it it is a 0.1 uF MLC cap vs some other type of capacitor, i.e., What desirable properties are exclusive to MLC?

This is exactly what I has hoping for. I'm slowly working through this book now to get a better understanding of this stuff, but practical explanations like the ones you provided are really interesting and provide an awesome supplement to what I have learned so far from the text book!

Next step is the breadboard to try some of this stuff out!

Electronics is both easy and hard. The easy parts are following a schematic and plugging existing circuits together. This is usually much easier with digital electronics since all the electronics are doing are turning the current on and off or bringing the voltage high or low. The hardest part is making sure you connect all the wires correctly, and most devices are protected, and voltages are low, so crossing wires won't fry the device (though LEDs are easy to burn out). You can get very far with this "lego" mindset to circuit design. If you want to understand how current flows through an electrical network, and why resistors need specific values, how analog circuits work, and why digital signals need certain components like capacitors, then you'll need to invest more time in understanding electrical theory. This book is really good for that: http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Third-Edition/dp/0071771336

Others may disagree, but I've found this book http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Third-Edition/dp/0071771336 To be extremely informative both for the layman such as myself, and I imagine it's useful for the more experienced of us as It goes into rather extensive detail - including all the mathematics and electrical theory.

I explained to you my position and you still deny 48V at .33A would produce a shock that might cause a lawsuit. I was being friendly and informing and your rambling that it dosent matter because "it doesn't give the voltage and frequency". We were assuming PoE which is more than likely 48v and frequency dosent even make sense in the context as its DC.

I would recommend this book if you're interested in learning about Ohm law and current flow so you can make informed observations. However looking through your 1st page comment history briefly I can see you just want to argue and the subject is irreverent. Take care, I've wasted enough of my time.

I'm reading through this book now. It's fantastic. It can be pretty minimal and entry-level, all the way to more advanced topics like AC current and figuring out phases and whatnot. It doesn't force you to learn everything. Calculus isn't even required, but recommended if you really want to understand some of the advanced stuff.

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Practical Electronics for Inventors covers a lot of what you are talking about. Its a textbook, but as the name implies, it is very practical. It does introduce the theory behind circuits, circuit components, and semiconductors, but I think in a very succinct and... practical way. Anyway, its very comprehensive and incredibly cheap. An EE friend suggested it to me when I had to do some electronics stuff. Its his favorite general circuits book.

No this is more interesting that a console

Learn about PCBs you can do just about anything you wish to do in your life.

Not a video but, I'm just finishing my first semester of Circuits and I bought this book:

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and reading it helped much more than the class textbook. It will probably follow about the same arc as the glass and its a very readable technical book. Plus it has later chapters on actual practical circuits and stuff on digital circuits information so I highly recommend it.

Depending on your current knowledge of course:

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https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0521809266/ref=dp_ob_neva_mobile

These cover ALOT of material. I have practical electronics. It gives some of the physics which is nice. You'll get circuit analysis, transistors, amplifier, op amps pretty much anything covered in your circuits courses. It even gets into some digital topics as well. I recommend it!

Edit: let me know current you're knowledge of EE and I can recommend more.

The Horowitz/Hill bible is great, he's a physicist/EE. For some people, though, his interest in the physics isn't necessarily what they geek out on, and so for those people I'd suggest also Practical Electronics for Inventors.

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I found this book to be very easy for beginners to pick up and enjoy, and get started on building far more quickly.

This is a good practical book made for the beginner:

https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Third-Scherz/dp/0071771336

This is the "bible":

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957

This is a pretty good guide to the electronics part. Find kits on AliExpress for the components.

Buy and read Practical Electronics for Inventors

Then just imagine how much more there is to learn when you start to use that horrible, icky math stuff that "Practical XYZ" books leave out because John Q. Public is scared of it.

Then buy and read Designing Audio Power Amplifiers, paying attention to the math.

I recommend this book. Absolutely one of a kind on this sort of material.

I have read this book...its like manual, great http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Paul-Scherz/dp/0071771336

For circuits, check out Practical Electronics for Inventors. For programming, check out The C Programming Language

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Hey! Sorry, I totally forgot about this. Here's a screenshot from this book.

In your circuit, the source ("S") is connected to ground. Vgs is the voltage between the gate ("G") and "S," and Vds is the voltage between the drain ("D") and "S." When you first turn on the circuit, the capacitor is "empty" and has no voltage across it, so the voltage at the "G" is whatever voltage you've tapped into on the potentiometer. (To make things easy, let's say you've turned the potentiometer all the way down, so that "G" is at ground.)

As the capacitor charges, the voltage across it (and consequently, the voltage at "G") rises from 0V until it slowly but surely reaches V+ (i.e., 5V). Since "S" remains at ground, that means Vgs is rising, which means (from that figure) the curve is shifting up. That implies that the current passing through the transistor is increasing. And that's where the current through the LEDs is coming from, which explains why the current gradually increases.

I don't know how much this helps, because this doesn't explain the deeper concepts of how the circuit works, but it at least tells you something about what the circuit is doing.

Best two:

• Practical Electronics for Inventors - a new version is supposed to be coming out in 2015 to correct the bugs in this book, there quite a few errors in the book, but its still a great read

• The Art of Electronics - an old college text book, out of print and hard to find, but a classic. I always considered this book to be a sort of the electronics version of "Joy of Cooking". You can find used copies sometimes at a decent price on Ebay. The new 3rd edition is coming out in April 2015, but its going to be a >$100 hardback textbook and its kinda pricey.

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