Month: October 2016

Encyclopedia of Electronic Components Volume 1, book review

Encyclopedia_Of_Electronic_Components_Volume_1-Book_Cover

Published on: 01.10.2016

Number of pages: 296
Written by: Charles Platt
Publish by: Maker Media (O’Reilly)

Conclusion
Gives good explanation of electronic components.
Useful to have as source of reference.

Review
This is encyclopaedia that comes in 3 volumes.

Volume 1 is describing:

  1. battery
  2. jumper
  3. fuse
  4. pushbutton
  5. switch
  6. rotary switch
  7. rotational encoder
  8. relay
  9. resistor
  10. potentiometer
  11. capacitor
  12. variable capacitor
  13. inductor
  14. AC-AC transformer
  15. AD-DC power supply
  16. DC-DC converter
  17. DC-AC inverter
  18. voltage regulator
  19. electromagnet
  20. solenoid
  21. DC motor
  22. AC motor
  23. servo motor
  24. stepper motor
  25. diode
  26. unijunction transistor
  27. bipolar transistor
  28. field effect transistor

For each components it give following informations:

  • what it does
  • how it works
  • variants
  • values
  • how to use it
  • what can go wrong