How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic
Michael Jay Geier
Language: English
Pages: 337
ISBN: B011T6XD2A
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
<h4>Master the Art of Electronics Repair</h4>
In this hands-on guide, a lifelong electronics repair guru shares his tested techniques and invaluable insights. How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic shows you how to repair and extend the life of all kinds of solid-state devices, from modern digital gadgetry to cherished analog products of yesteryear.
You'll start by selecting the tools and test equipment you'll need and setting up your workbench. Then, you'll get familiar with components and how they form circuits, stages, and sections of a device. Next, you'll learn how to take a product apart, figure out what's wrong with it, replace components, and reassemble it. Real-world case studies help clarify the topics covered. Tips and tricks for specific devices, such as optical disc players, computers, and video recorders, are also included in this practical resource.
* Set up a workbench and equip it with tools and test instruments * Ensure personal safety and avoid electrical and physical damage to devices * Understand electrical units, circuits, and signals * Use test equipment, including a digital multimeter, signal generator, frequency counter, and an oscilloscope * Repair circuit boards and replace parts * Work with components, from capacitors and ICs to transistors and zeners * Learn to read block, schematic, and pictorial diagrams * Disassemble devices and identify sections and stages * Troubleshoot and diagnose to the component level * Perform reverse-order reassembly <h4>Up-to-date, easy-to-follow coverage of electricity and electronics</h4>
In Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics, Fifth Edition, a master teacher provides step-by-step lessons in electricity and electronics fundamentals and applications. Detailed illustrations, practical examples, and hundreds of test questions make it easy to learn the material quickly. This fully revised resource starts with the basics and takes you through advanced applications, such as communications systems and robotics. Solve current-voltage-resistance-impedance problems, make power calculations, optimize system performance, and prepare for licensing exams with help from this hands-on guide.
Updated for the latest technological trends: * Wireless systems * Fiber Optics * Lasers * Space Communications
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Comprehensive coverage includes:
Direct-Current Circuit Basics and Analysis * Resistors * Cells and Batteries * Magnetism * Inductance * Capacitance * Phase * Inductive and Capacitive Reactance * Impedance and Admittance * Alternating-Current Circuit Analysis, Power, and Resonance * Transformers and Impedance Matching * Semiconductors * Diode Applications * Power Supplies * Bipolar and Field-Effect Transistors * Amplifiers and Oscillators * Digital and Computer Basics * Antennas for RF Communications * Integrated Circuits * Electron Tubes * Transducers, Sensors, Location, and Navigation * Acoustics and Audio Fundamentals * Advanced Communications Systems
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is about right. Any shorter and they may not reach where you need them. Any longer and they’ll probably be a bit too flexible, reducing their usefulness when twisting is required. Unlike cutters, needlenose pliers rarely wear out or need replacement. Still, get two pairs so you can hold one in each hand and use them at the same time. You’ll need to do that now and then. Hemostats They’re not just for surgeons anymore! Hemostats are much like needlenose pliers, except that they lock, providing a
could have foreseen. The more you come to understand how devices work at the macro level, the more sense their problems will make. The more you can consider products as metal and silicon expressions of human thinking, the better sleuthing skills you will attain. Before we get to the nitty-gritty of transistors, current flow and signals, let’s put on 39 40 How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic our philosophers’ hats and become the Socrates of circuitry, the Erasmus of electrons. Let’s
impeding the passage of current from the power supply terminal to circuit ground. As the current trickles through them, it is used to do work, be it switching the gates in a microprocessor, generating laser light for a disc player, or spinning the disc. Electrons, though, are little devils that will go anywhere they can. If there’s a path, they’ll find it. Malfunctions can be considered either as paths that shouldn’t be there or a lack of paths that should. In essence, when machines work
one to the start of a waveform feature and the other will follow, letting you see how the signal aligns against the second one. Always keep in mind that these measurements provide nowhere near the accuracy or precision of those you’ll get from your DMM or frequency counter! Still, you can’t measure the voltage or frequency of items within signals with anything but a scope. Digital Differences Operating a digital scope isn’t that much different from using an analog, but there are some items to
the longer the discharge process takes, and the slower the transistor can react to incoming signal changes. When the frequency of the incoming signal is faster than the time constant, the transistor’s residual charge fills in as base current drops, acting like any filter capacitor and smoothing out the waveform. As a result, the transistor can’t react quickly enough to respond and amplify the signal. Thus, the upper speed limit, or frequency response, of the amplifier drops off. C2 allows the