Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!ncar!unmvax!ogccse!blake!milton!uw-beaver!fluke!strong From: strong@tc.fluke.COM (Norm Strong) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Advice on getting started...? Message-ID: <11405@fluke.COM> Date: 28 Sep 89 18:30:12 GMT References: <15836@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Sender: news@tc.fluke.COM Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 20 In article <15836@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> sean@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Sean P. Nolan) writes: }Hey there ..... } }I'm looking for advice from people here on how to get started actually DOING }something with electronics. I've read a few books and have a pretty good }understanding of what various components (discrete and within ICs) do and how }they work. But I'm kind of at a loss as to what to do now. Picking up random }schematics, I can get the general jist of what's going on, but wouldn't be }able to sit down and design a circuit for the life of me. All real-world }projects have resistors and capacitors flying all over the place in seemingly }random places. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. National Semiconductor publishes a very good little book entitled "Intuitive IC Op Amps" by T. Frederiksen. It will tell you all you ever have to know about closed loop circuits. It also has oodles of application info. Try it, you'll like it. -- Norm (strong@tc.fluke.com)