Set up your own home electronics workshop. In this practical guide, electronics expert Stan Gibilisco shows you, step by step, how to set up a home workshop so you can invent, design, build, test, and repair electronic circuits and gadgets. Electronics Workshop Companion for Hobbyists provides tips for constructing your workbench and stocking it with the tools, components, and test equipment you'll need. Illustrations and interesting do-it-yourself experiments are included throughout this hands-on resource. Learn techniques, calculations, and formulas for working with: Resistors Capacitors Inductors Transformers Diodes Transistors Integrated circuits and more.
Author(s): Stan Gibilisco
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 259
Tags: Electronics -- Amateurs’ manuals;Electronics -- Handbooks, manuals, etc;Electronics
Introduction ... xiii
1 Setting Up Shop ... 1
2 Resistors ... 38
3 Capacitors ... 43
4 Inductors ... 63
5 Transformers ... 85
6 Diodes ... 101
7 Transistors ... 123
8 Integrated Circuits and Digital Basics ... 153
9 More Components and Techniques ... 173
Appendix A: Schematic Symbols ... 195
Appendix B: Prefix Multipliers ... 211
Appendix C: Standard International Unit Conversions ... 213
Appendix D: Electrical Unit Conversions ... 215
Appendix E: Magnetic Unit Conversions ... 219
Appendix F: Miscellaneous Unit Conversions ... 221
Appendix G: American Wire Gauge (AWG) Diameters ... 225
Appendix H: British Standard Wire Gauge (NBS SWG) Diameters ... 227
Appendix I: Birmingham Wire Gauge (BWG) Diameters ... 229
Appendix J: Maximum Safe DC Carrying Capacity for Bare Copper Wire in Open Air ... 231
Appendix K: Common Solder Alloys ... 233
Appendix L: Radio Frequency Bands ... 235
Suggested Additional Reading ... 237
Index ... 239
