Do-it-yourself reading material

[smuryof]

Any reading material for the electronically challenged?

I visited our local swap meet and came away with one small book on reading schematics, and another 1929 textbook on various radio circuitry. Fun reading, but hardly present-day tech.

I'm looking for an overall guide that will get me up to speed with the various components in a typical system, and how components work together to do specific jobs (simple example, an inductor-capacitor relationship for oscillations - but what's an oscillation used for? How is it used with TV and radio? etc. etc.) My goal is to get to where I can read a schematic and feel the "flow" of the whole thing.

Thanks for any recommendations!

-Jim

 

[CarlV]

You can Wiki specifics and
a general search turns up much for free. Many books worth buying are recommended in this site.


Carl

 

[mhardy6647]

Not sure if there's much for beginners but one of the best collections of on-line technical literature for the DIY buff is at Pete Millett's website:

http://www.pmillett.com/technical_books_online.htm

EDIT: There's a very good basic introduction to electronics from the US Navy that's readily available in reprint, inexpensively. I think I've seen it in 'bricks & mortar' Barnes & Nobel stores.

Here is something similar that's available online:
http://www.hnsa.org/doc/radio/index.htm

The focus is radio, not audio, but the basic background's the same.

 

[jblmar]

Hi Jim,
You have a PM.

Ron