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kgm
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PostPosted: 01:18 - 15 Apr 2018    Post subject: Book Recommendations - Electronics Reply with quote

Evening all,

Electronics is a massive knowledge gap for me when it comes to maintenance and so I'd like to educate myself. Can anyone recommend me a decent book or two which could help my understanding of automotive electronics, or indeed just electronics in general?

I have an engineering degree and I have a very basic understanding from the little I can remember so I don't mind it being on the technical side.
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PostPosted: 01:45 - 15 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do you mean electronics or electrics? I always understood electronics to mean the interior workings of individual items, eg pcb's etc, electrics is used to mean all the wiring and mechanical stuff, etc between electronic components that makes those electronic gizmo's function.
So, in short, do you want to know how to chip your bike's brain and fix a digital instrument panel or wire it up so that the alternator charges the battery and get the switches to do the right thing at the time? Most people can get their heads around electrics (Haynes do some good manuals for learning that kind of thing), electronics is a bit more specialized.
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PostPosted: 23:46 - 15 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeeeears ago I found a great starter book which was so folksy and accessible that it got me further into the subject where I may have recoiled in horror at doin the sums and stuff

I got it from Tandy as I recall, anyone remember Tandy?

Anyway that and the engineers notebooks are all to be found online
or as torrents in PDF format

this is the one that started me off

https://downloadfreepdfbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/download-getting-started-in-electronics.html
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PostPosted: 19:15 - 16 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 21:23 - 16 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

WD Forte wrote:


I got it from Tandy as I recall, anyone remember Tandy?


Oh yes. I suppose they were the nearest thing (although better) to what Maplins are now, or were Rolling Eyes

I had my first real HiFi from them.
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PostPosted: 22:02 - 16 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 22:17 - 16 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

WD Forte wrote:
I got it from Tandy as I recall, anyone remember Tandy?


I had my first radio controlled car from Tandy.

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PostPosted: 22:17 - 16 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Get a high end one of those electronics experiment kits they make for kids (where you effectively have a load of componants and chips on a prototyping board).

Do the projects. Read the stuff that goes with them instead of just connecting them up and playing with them. A decent kit will take you right through what all the componants do, right up to making up logic circuits, and wiring timer chips.

Much more fun and more likely to stick than just dry reading.
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PostPosted: 15:02 - 17 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nostalgia aside
There some Arduino kits about where you
get an Arduino, breadboard and various components
( or just buy it all yourself)
and can get results pretty quickly even if it just blinky led.

The interfacing gets you into electronics on a practical level
pretty quickly and books/tutorials abound.

I know the Rpi has GPIO pins but Duinos have on board analog
and 5v nanos etc are cheap as chips.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Nano-V3-0-For-Arduino-with-CH340G-5V-16M-compatible-ATmega328P-UK-Seller/151765624720?epid=1178977910&hash=item2355efa790:g:aSkAAOSw3ydVvbcE
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