|
Electronics Cookbook(?)
I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It
was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe Forest Nims. It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different types. There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the advantages, disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters, typical input and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog circuitry. If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere. Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET preamp is? This book would have it. Thanks, Alan AB1JX |
Electronics Cookbook(?)
Alan Corey wrote: I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe Forest Nims. Forrest M. Mims III wrote a series of basic electronics paperback books for Radio Shack. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=a9_sc_1?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aforrest+mims&keywords =forrest+mims&ie=UTF8&qid=1297170508&ajr=6 It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different types. There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the advantages, disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters, typical input and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog circuitry. If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere. Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET preamp is? This book would have it. Thanks, Alan AB1JX -- You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a band-aid on it, because it's Teflon coated. |
Electronics Cookbook(?)
Alan Corey wrote:
I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe Forest Nims. Perhaps Electronic Circuits Cookbook by Harry L. Helms. ???? regards ............. Zim |
Electronics Cookbook(?)
"Alan Corey" wrote in message ... I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe Forest Nims. If you want to browse before buying ; ) Check out some of these (requires bittorrent client www.bittorrent.com) http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/443...54.TPB.torrent |
Electronics Cookbook(?)
"Alan Corey" wrote in message ... I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe Forest Nims. It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different types. There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the advantages, disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters, typical input and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog circuitry. If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere. Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET preamp is? This book would have it. Thanks, Alan AB1JX I do recall a Orange cookbook, Then they had shrunk it down to the smaller handbooks found in RS. Cheers |
Electronics Cookbook(?)
Martin Riddle wrote:
"Alan Corey" wrote in message ... I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe Forest Nims. It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different types. There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the advantages, disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters, typical input and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog circuitry. If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere. Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET preamp is? This book would have it. Thanks, Alan AB1JX I do recall a Orange cookbook, Then they had shrunk it down to the smaller handbooks found in RS. Cheers Thanks..I had worked at a Radio Shack in the late 70s and probably pilfered it from their shelves. Are you sure of the title and author's name? I don't see it at Amazon (at the moment). Mostly what I found is the RSGB book, so I bought one of those. Nice, but not what I'm looking for. |
Electronics Cookbook(?)
"Alan Corey" wrote in message ... Martin Riddle wrote: "Alan Corey" wrote in message ... I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe Forest Nims. It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different types. There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the advantages, disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters, typical input and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog circuitry. If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere. Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET preamp is? This book would have it. Thanks, Alan AB1JX I do recall a Orange cookbook, Then they had shrunk it down to the smaller handbooks found in RS. Cheers Thanks..I had worked at a Radio Shack in the late 70s and probably pilfered it from their shelves. Are you sure of the title and author's name? I don't see it at Amazon (at the moment). Mostly what I found is the RSGB book, so I bought one of those. Nice, but not what I'm looking for. There's always the Graf & Sheets Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits (6 vols) floating about in the world wide swamp, they're lousy scans and one volume even has a page with the horizontal hold gone awry. The accompanying text with each circuit is pretty minimal too. |
Electronics Cookbook(?)
"ian field" wrote in message
... There's always the Graf & Sheets Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits (6 vols) floating about in the world wide swamp, they're lousy scans and one volume even has a page with the horizontal hold gone awry. The accompanying text with each circuit is pretty minimal too. My recollection is that that collection is essentially the old-school version of random schematics on the Internet today: Graf & Sheets collected them from all over the place, but didn't actually analyze them personally, so the quality tends to very from "really good" to "absolutely awful?" Because just, "buyer beware..." |
Electronics Cookbook(?)
"Joel Koltner" wrote in message ... "ian field" wrote in message ... There's always the Graf & Sheets Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits (6 vols) floating about in the world wide swamp, they're lousy scans and one volume even has a page with the horizontal hold gone awry. The accompanying text with each circuit is pretty minimal too. My recollection is that that collection is essentially the old-school version of random schematics on the Internet today: Graf & Sheets collected them from all over the place, but didn't actually analyze them personally, so the quality tends to very from "really good" to "absolutely awful?" Because just, "buyer beware..." Buyer? |
Electronics Cookbook(?)
ian field wrote: "Joel Koltner" wrote in message ... "ian field" wrote in message ... There's always the Graf & Sheets Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits (6 vols) floating about in the world wide swamp, they're lousy scans and one volume even has a page with the horizontal hold gone awry. The accompanying text with each circuit is pretty minimal too. My recollection is that that collection is essentially the old-school version of random schematics on the Internet today: Graf & Sheets collected them from all over the place, but didn't actually analyze them personally, so the quality tends to very from "really good" to "absolutely awful?" Because just, "buyer beware..." Buyer? Of the book. -- You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a band-aid on it, because it's Teflon coated. |
Electronics Cookbook(?)
Alan Corey wrote:
Martin Riddle wrote: "Alan Corey" wrote in message ... I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe Forest Nims. It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different types. There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the advantages, disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters, typical input and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog circuitry. If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere. Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET preamp is? This book would have it. Thanks, Alan AB1JX I do recall a Orange cookbook, Then they had shrunk it down to the smaller handbooks found in RS. Cheers Thanks..I had worked at a Radio Shack in the late 70s and probably pilfered it from their shelves. Are you sure of the title and author's name? I don't see it at Amazon (at the moment). Mostly what I found is the RSGB book, so I bought one of those. Nice, but not what I'm looking for. Was that the one with the aircraft-band crystal radio, one-transistor carbon-mike megaphone, and tunnel-diode FM wireless mike? I've been looking for a copy of that one for ages--I had it when I was about 10 (1969), but it fell apart and eventually got thrown out. No idea who wrote it or what the title was. Cheers Phil Hobbs -- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal ElectroOptical Innovations 55 Orchard Rd Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 845-480-2058 email: hobbs (atsign) electrooptical (period) net http://electrooptical.net |
Electronics Cookbook(?)
On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:34:35 -0500, Alan Corey
wrote: I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe Forest Nims. Forrest Mims, maybe. He tended to call his stuff "scrapbook" or "notebook". Don Lancaster had a number of books with "cookbook" in the title. And then there's Walt Jung's "IC Op-Amp Cookbook" ISBN 0-13-889601-1 It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different types. There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the advantages, disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters, typical input and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog circuitry. If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere. Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET preamp is? This book would have it. Thanks, Alan AB1JX ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | Remember: Once you go over the hill, you pick up speed |
Electronics Cookbook(?)
"ian field" wrote in message
... "Joel Koltner" wrote in message Because just, "buyer beware..." Buyer? Yes. Sorry 'bout that... |
Electronics Cookbook(?)
Phil Hobbs wrote:
Alan Corey wrote: Martin Riddle wrote: "Alan Corey" wrote in message ... I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe Forest Nims. It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different types. There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the advantages, disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters, typical input and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog circuitry. If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere. Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET preamp is? This book would have it. Thanks, Alan AB1JX I do recall a Orange cookbook, Then they had shrunk it down to the smaller handbooks found in RS. Cheers Thanks..I had worked at a Radio Shack in the late 70s and probably pilfered it from their shelves. Are you sure of the title and author's name? I don't see it at Amazon (at the moment). Mostly what I found is the RSGB book, so I bought one of those. Nice, but not what I'm looking for. Was that the one with the aircraft-band crystal radio, one-transistor carbon-mike megaphone, and tunnel-diode FM wireless mike? I've been looking for a copy of that one for ages--I had it when I was about 10 (1969), but it fell apart and eventually got thrown out. No idea who wrote it or what the title was. Cheers Phil Hobbs I doubt it. There weren't many complete projects in this book. What was unique about it was that it presented building blocks for different circuits and told how to optimize make them work together. If you wanted to build a receiver for instance you might look at amplifiers for an RF amp, then oscillators for the first oscillator, then mixers for the first mixer, amplifiers for IF amps, detectors for a detector, audio power amps for driving a speaker. There were a few complete projects toward the back but they weren't very interesting, I don't remember what they were. Alan |
Electronics Cookbook(?)
Jim Thompson wrote:
On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:34:35 -0500, Alan Corey wrote: I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe Forest Nims. Forrest Mims, maybe. He tended to call his stuff "scrapbook" or "notebook". Don Lancaster had a number of books with "cookbook" in the title. And then there's Walt Jung's "IC Op-Amp Cookbook" ISBN 0-13-889601-1 It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different types. There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the advantages, disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters, typical input and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog circuitry. If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere. Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET preamp is? This book would have it. Thanks, Alan AB1JX ...Jim Thompson Don Lancaster rings a bell, I'll try that. Alan |
Electronics Cookbook(?)
Alan Corey wrote:
Phil Hobbs wrote: Alan Corey wrote: Martin Riddle wrote: "Alan Corey" wrote in message ... I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe Forest Nims. It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different types. There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the advantages, disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters, typical input and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog circuitry. If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere. Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET preamp is? This book would have it. Thanks, Alan AB1JX I do recall a Orange cookbook, Then they had shrunk it down to the smaller handbooks found in RS. Cheers Thanks..I had worked at a Radio Shack in the late 70s and probably pilfered it from their shelves. Are you sure of the title and author's name? I don't see it at Amazon (at the moment). Mostly what I found is the RSGB book, so I bought one of those. Nice, but not what I'm looking for. Was that the one with the aircraft-band crystal radio, one-transistor carbon-mike megaphone, and tunnel-diode FM wireless mike? I've been looking for a copy of that one for ages--I had it when I was about 10 (1969), but it fell apart and eventually got thrown out. No idea who wrote it or what the title was. Cheers Phil Hobbs I doubt it. There weren't many complete projects in this book. What was unique about it was that it presented building blocks for different circuits and told how to optimize make them work together. If you wanted to build a receiver for instance you might look at amplifiers for an RF amp, then oscillators for the first oscillator, then mixers for the first mixer, amplifiers for IF amps, detectors for a detector, audio power amps for driving a speaker. There were a few complete projects toward the back but they weren't very interesting, I don't remember what they were. Alan There's a Forrest Mims website with a list of books and it's not there. http://www.forrestmims.org/publications.html It wasn't "Getting Started in Electronics" I remember Don Lancaster's CMOS cookbook and the cheap video books, but that's not it. I don't think it was him. Alan AB1JX |
Electronics Cookbook(?)
"Alan Corey" wrote in message
... Don Lancaster rings a bell, I'll try that. Don has written a lot of good books, and I've only read a small sampling of them, but I'd be rather surprised to learn that he had any that discuss "building blocks" of radios or whatever all the way down to the small-signal model level (i.e., providing equations for the input impedance of a grounded base amplifier, as you mentioned). |
Electronics Cookbook(?)
Joel Koltner wrote:
"Alan Corey" wrote in message ... Don Lancaster rings a bell, I'll try that. Don has written a lot of good books, and I've only read a small sampling of them, but I'd be rather surprised to learn that he had any that discuss "building blocks" of radios or whatever all the way down to the small-signal model level (i.e., providing equations for the input impedance of a grounded base amplifier, as you mentioned). I've owned a couple of Don's cookbooks, and it seems that he assumes you already know enough basic electronics to get the stuff hooked up. I think the two I had were "the TTL cookbook" and either an opamp cookbook or active filter cookbook, but nothing about "this is a transistor," "how to solder," or any of the really basic stuff. My recommendation would probably be to search the web for stuff like "basic electronics tutorial," or whatever, the operative word being "tutorial." Cheers! Rich |
Electronics Cookbook(?)
On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:34:35 -0500, Alan Corey
wrote: I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe Forest Nims. It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different types. There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the advantages, disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters, typical input and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog circuitry. If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere. Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET preamp is? This book would have it. Thanks, Alan AB1JX I have a copy of this book. It was titled Engineers notebook II by Mims 1982 and this book from Amazon looks like the latest revision. Type this into Amazon search Forrest Mims Engineer's Notebook paperback Regards James |
Electronics Cookbook(?)
"Jan" wrote in message ... On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:34:35 -0500, Alan Corey wrote: I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe Forest Nims. It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different types. There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the advantages, disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters, typical input and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog circuitry. If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere. Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET preamp is? This book would have it. Thanks, Alan AB1JX I have a copy of this book. It was titled Engineers notebook II by Mims 1982 and this book from Amazon looks like the latest revision. Type this into Amazon search Forrest Mims Engineer's Notebook paperback Regards James Wasn't that the Radio Shack offering? Quite a different thing from anything you could describe as an electronics cookbook I'd say. |
Electronics Cookbook(?)
On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:34:35 -0500, Alan Corey wrote: I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe Forest Nims. It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different types. There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the advantages, disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters, typical input and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog circuitry. If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere. Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET preamp is? This book would have it. Thanks, Alan AB1JX A free copy of the book I mentioned can be downloaded here http://www.filesonic.com/file/217120...plications.rar Use the free slow dl, takes about 5 min. Regards Jan |
| All times are GMT +1. The time now is 03:27 PM. |
Powered by vBulletin® Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004 - 2014 DIYbanter