Let's start with me being an electrical engineer by degree, and many years of tinkering with electronics. I remember opening up and messing with transistor radios at age 10.
But there is a vast difference between Engineer and Technician. Mini-rant here: Technicians are not Engineers, they are Technicians. I hate how everybody is now some kind of "engineer". Auto mechanics, air conditioning technicians, telephone repairmen, etc are all suddenly Engineers! It demeans the education required to become a engineer, and it demeans the practical knowledge and skills required to be a technician.
So, I can (and have) designed numerous analog and digital circuits as a hobbiest, mostly many years ago. Those were built way back before computer aided circuit board layouts! I've got a couple of tube amp designs on paper. But I have none of that practical knowledge how to select actual physical components. E.g. a carbon resistor or a wire wound? And why? Which kind of capacitor, and why? What placements of components are asking for noise which might not be intuitively obvious? How about grounding strategies?
Is there a book or other resource you'd recommend which addresses the practical aspects of selecting components and assembling them? I don't need electrical design help, just the practical knowledge a technician would have. Because they don't teach Engineers how to actually make it work!
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Let's start with me being an electrical engineer by degree, and many years of tinkering with electronics. I remember opening up and messing with transistor radios at age 10.
But there is a vast difference between Engineer and Technician. Mini-rant here: Technicians are not Engineers, they are Technicians. I hate how everybody is now some kind of "engineer". Auto mechanics, air conditioning technicians, telephone repairmen, etc are all suddenly Engineers! It demeans the education required to become a engineer, and it demeans the practical knowledge and skills required to be a technician.
So, I can (and have) designed numerous analog and digital circuits as a hobbiest, mostly many years ago. Those were built way back before computer aided circuit board layouts! I've got a couple of tube amp designs on paper. But I have none of that practical knowledge how to select actual physical components. E.g. a carbon resistor or a wire wound? And why? Which kind of capacitor, and why? What placements of components are asking for noise which might not be intuitively obvious? How about grounding strategies?
Is there a book or other resource you'd recommend which addresses the practical aspects of selecting components and assembling them? I don't need electrical design help, just the practical knowledge a technician would have. Because they don't teach Engineers how to actually make it work!
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