Beginner's Guide to Reading Schematics

Beginner's Guide to Reading Schematics
by Anna Lisk, Robert Traister

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Author: Anna Lisk, Robert Traister
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1991-03-01
ISBN: 0830676325
Number of pages: 129
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics

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Book Review: Don't bother
Summary: 2 Stars

I bought this on impulse while ordering another book. Sorry I did, wasted my money. I can't really figure out who the intended audience is: If you have never been exposed to electrical schematics you wouldn't likely want this compendium of symbols with no conceptual background, and if you have had even a little conceptual background you have already been introduced to most of this. You don't need a book to find out what the schematic drawing of a transistor is, for instance, because any instructional material dealing with electronics circuits that you look at will include that information. Reading the individual symbols used in circuit diagrams and schematics isn't difficult- they are just symbols you can look up in any table of electronic symbols. The difficult part is conceptualizing how the components work together by "reading" the schematic- following the signal or current flow or being able to identify functional blocks, something this book does not help you with. All the circuits used as examples in this book are very basic, and the theory that is discussed is very superficial. I am not saying this book has no value, but it's value is minimal and can be easily found in the introductory chapters of most any primer on electronic circuits. For that I recommend a similar vintage TAB book written by G. Randy Sloan entitled "TAB Electronics Guide to Understanding Electricity and Electronics".

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Summary of Beginner's Guide to Reading Schematics

This book aims to give the novice experimenter a basic working knowledge of schematics and other electrical diagrams, describing how they are used in practical circuit analysis, troubleshooting and repair. Readers learn to decipher modern schematic symbols, interconnections and component designations and how these elements are combined to produce progressively more complex circuits.

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