Electronic and electrical diagrams. Beginner's guide. Edition 3

Learn to read the signs and design your own layouts!

Have you always dreamed about building your own electronic circuit, and the soldering iron is not strange to you? It's time for you to start working! However, if hundreds of lines, strange stamps and descriptions make you dizzy and have trouble reading the circuit diagram, be sure to check this book!

Thanks to it you will quickly learn to read electrical and electronic diagrams. In a moment, the distinction between the ideological, block and executive scheme will become a piece of cake for you. You will see how diode schemes, resistors, capacitors, electronic tubes, cells and batteries look like. You will learn how to analyze the scheme and discover the mechanism of its operation. In the end you will become a specialist for detecting and diagnosing faults based on the schema. This book is an excellent reading for all electronics enthusiasts who want to be fluent in using electrical and electronic diagrams!

Thanks to this book:

• You will learn the symbols and signs used in the schemes
• you will learn to read simple and complex diagrams
• you will learn the basic laws of Kirchhoff
• locate and diagnose faults based on the scheme

Learn to use electronic and electrical diagrams!

Table of Contents

About the author (5)
Introduction (7)
1. What is the diagram? (9)

• Flowchart (10)
• Schematic diagram (11)
• Symbols used in schemes (12)
• Connections between subassemblies shown in the diagram (14)
• Symbolic language (17)

2. Block diagrams (21)

• A simple example (21)
• Functional diagrams (22)
• Current and signal paths (24)
• Technological diagram of the process (26)
• Program execution paths (31)
• Summary (33)

3. Symbols of elements (35)

• Resistors (36)
• Capacitors (41)
• Coils and transformers (45)
• Switch (50)
• Wires and cables (53)
• Diodes and transistors (57)
• Electron tubes (59)
• Cells and batteries (64)
• Logic gates (65)
• Summary (66)

4. Simple circuits (69)

• Beginnings (69)
• Components labeling (78)
• Detecting and diagnosing faults using the schema (84)
• More complex circuit (88)
• Connecting a schematic and block diagram (91)
• Summary (95)

5. Compound circuits (97)

• Identification of component blocks (97)
• Pagination (105)
• Further circuits (108)
• Getting used to working with complex schemes (120)
• Summary (125)

6. Learning through practice (129)

• Your experimental plate (130)
• Winding of wires (134)
• Kirchhoff current law (136)
• Kirchhoff's voltage law (140)
• Resistive voltage divider (143)
• Diode reducing system (150)
• Mismatched light bulbs connected in series (156)
• Summary and conclusions (163)

A. Symbols used in the schemes (165)
B. Resistors - bar code (181)
Additional reading (185)
Index (187)