Tab Electronics Guide to Understanding Electricity and Electronics

479 Pages·2000·4.728 MB·English

by  G. Randy Slone

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TAB ELECTRONICS GUIDE TO
UNDERSTANDING ELECTRICITY
AND ELECTRONICS
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TAB Electronics
Guide to
Understanding
Electricity
and Electronics
G. Randy Slone
Second Edition
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CONTENTS
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Chapter 1. Getting Started 1
Establishing Reasonable Goals 2
What Is Unreasonable? 2
What Is Reasonable? 3
Obtaining the Informational Tools 5
Textbooks 5
Data Books 5
Periodicals 7
Setting up a Lab 8
The Workbench 9
Hand Tools 9
Miscellaneous Supplies 12
Electrical Lab Power 13
Basic Test Equipment 14
Starting a Parts and Materials Inventory 18
Salvaging 19
What to Salvage 21
Salvaging Electronic Components 22
Buying from Surplus Dealers 24
Chapter 2. Basic Electrical Concepts 27
Electronic Components 28
Resistors 28
Potentiometers, Rheostats, and Resistive Devices 31
Capacitors 33
Diodes 35
Transistors 36
Integrated Circuits 37
A Final Note on Parts Identification 38
Characteristics of Electricity 38
Voltage 41
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Current 42
Resistance 43
Alternating Current (AC) and Direct Current (DC) 44
Conductance 44
Power 45
Laws of Electricity 45
Ohm’s law 46
Parellel-Circuit Analysis 49
Series-Circuit Analysis 53
Series-Parallel Circuits 55
Power 57
Common Electronics Prefixes 59
Using Ohm’s Law in Real-World Circumstances 60
Chapter 3. The Transformer and AC Power 81
AC Waveshopes 82
AC Frequency 82
AC Amplitude 84
AC Calculations 86
Inductance 88
DC Resistance 93
Transformers 94
Soldering 97
Soldering Overview 98
Soldering for the First Time 98
Soldering Procedure 99
Desoldering Procedure 100
Assembling and Testing the First Section of a Lab
Power Supply 101
Emphasis on Safety throughout This Book 101
Materials Needed for Completion of This Section 102
Mounting the Hardware 104
Wiring and Testing Procedure 105
Testing the First Section of the Lab Power Supply 108
Chapter 4. Rectification 115
Introduction to Solid-State Devices 116
Diode Principles 117
Referencing 126
Assembly and Testing of Second Section of a Lab Power Supply 127
Testing Bridge Rectifier Modules 128
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Chapter 5. Capacitance 133
Capacitor Types and Construction 134
Basic Capacitor Principles 136
Filter Capacitors 140
Designing Raw DC Power Supples 145
Assembly and Testing of Third Section of a Lab Power Supply 148
Testing the Power Supply 149
Food for Thought 151
Chapter 6. Transistors 153
Preliminary Definitions 154
Introduction to Transistors 154
Transistor Principles 156
Common Transistor Configurations 160
Adding Some New Concepts 161
The Common-Emitter Configuration 162
The Common-Collector Configuration 165
The Common-Base Configuration 166
Transistor Amplifier Comparisons 167
Impedance Matching 168
Transistor Workshop 169
Assembly and Testing of Last Section of a Lab Power Supply 193
Assembling the Circuit Board 195
Mounting Q1 and Q2 196
Circuit Description 198
Testing the Power Supply 199
In Case of Difficulty 199
Checking Transistors with a DVM 200
Chapter 7. Special-Purpose Diodes and Optoelectronic Devices 201
Zener Diodes 202
Designing Simple Zener-Regulated Power Supplies 203
Varactor Diodes 206
Schottky Diodes 207
Tunnel Diodes 208
Diacs 208
Fact-Recovery Diodes 209
Noise and Transient Suppression Diodes 209
A Basic Course in Quantum Physics 210
Light-Emitting Diodes 211