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Encyclopedia of Electronic Components Volume 1: Resistors, Capacitors, Inductors, Switches, Encoders, Relays, Transistors

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Want to know how to use an electronic component? This first book of a three- volume set includes key information on electronics parts for your projects―complete with photographs, schematics, and diagrams. You’ll learn what each one does, how it works, why it’s useful, and what variants exist. No matter how much you know about electronics, you’ll find fascinating details you’ve never come across before. Convenient, concise, well-organized, and precisePerfect for teachers, hobbyists, engineers, and students of all ages, this reference puts reliable, fact-checked information right at your fingertips―whether you’re refreshing your memory or exploring a component for the first time. Beginners will quickly grasp important concepts, and more experienced users will find the specific details their projects require. Unique: the first and only encyclopedia set on electronic components, distilled into three separate volumes Incredibly detailed: includes information distilled from hundreds of sources Easy to browse: parts are clearly organized by component type Authoritative: fact-checked by expert advisors to ensure that the information is both current and accurate Reliable: a more consistent source of information than online sources, product datasheets, and manufacturer’s tutorials Instructive: each component description provides details about substitutions, common problems, and workarounds Comprehensive: Volume 1 covers power, electromagnetism, and discrete semi-conductors; Volume 2 includes integrated circuits, and light and sound sources; Volume 3 covers a range of sensing devices. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Make Community, LLC


Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 4, 2012


Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 294 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1449333893


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 98


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 0.59 x 9.75 inches


Book 1 of 3 ‏ : ‎ Encyclopedia of Electronic Components


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Top Amazon Reviews

    • Excellent Book
This book is an outstanding reference book on a number of electronic components. Anyone interested in learning more about electronic components or reviewing should have this book in their library.
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2024 by Tom
    • Great to have BOOK
Nice to know what your looking at. Great Informative book.
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2024 by michael a morani
    • Great book
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You get a lot of great information out of it.
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2023 by SG SG
    • A valuable addition to the bookshelf: worth the time and the money
Platt's 'Enc. of Electronic Components' is a good read, lots of information on the components covered, and strikes a fine balance between underwhelming the knowledgeable and overwhelming those who 'just don't know.' I wanted to know more about capacitors. Now I have read why I might choose polyethylene over mylar, or tantalum caps over electrolytics. I wanted to know more about coils, inductors, and now there is a little more knowledge to fill the wells of memory there as well. Lots of good information on resistors, capacitors (including the actual schematics for RC high and low pass filters), a little later there are LCR filters, diodes, a variety of diodes and transistor types. There is a very good section on a variety of motors - better here than I expected, so I learned more where I hadn't thought I would. Platt introduces the volume by suggesting the book will gather enough information to be usable, in one place, effectively 'peer reviewed' for accuracy and legitimacy, and the book certainly lives up to that aim. In all chapters on components there is a 'what could go wrong' section; that is what I'm going to add here. My two big complaints have to do with typeface/font selection and the layout of illustrations. The font used for formulae I find hard to read quickly and accurately. Most troublesome is the 'pi' symbol which quite often I mistake for an 'n' which I catch because I know the equation - but I can see being caught out. That I would like to see changed. The other complaint is the number of times throughout the book where the text refers to an illustration -- which is on the next page. It sounds like a minor complaint but can be irritating. Those two quibbles aside I'm glad I bought the book. If my bookshelf had a fire, earthquake, tsunami, or house-cleaner come through I would buy another copy quickly. And, once through the first couple chapters, I want to know when the next (two!) volumes are coming out? Worth your time and money. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2012 by Urb Anwriter
    • For my partner but cool book
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Just got the encyclopedia. Has a few bends and scraps. That's on the delivery. I've heard good things about this book and briefly looked through it. I love the pictures and information I see so far. I hope my partner likes it! :)
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2024 by For my partner For my partner
    • A lot of information in easy to understand form
The author did an outstanding job to collect the information and present them in a way even beginners can understand. A great resource for any electronic library from the hobbyist to the professional
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2024 by GadgetsNgoodies
    • Great Value and the contents are just what I was looking for!
Thanks so much to Amazon and the Authors for yet another great and successful transaction. This book is part of a set I ordered and each book as well as the entire set meets if not exceeds my hopes for their purchase. Thanks to the Authors and Amazon for another successful transaction!
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2024 by 5BuckChuck
    • Too much detail on simple things not enough on hard things
This book is great as an introduction into Electronics. I think it's useful to have around in case you ever want to look anything up but I was under the assumption it would be more encyclopedic whereas this is sort of like a 6th graders reference book for not any sort of actual practical referencing but just something need to look at in read. There are some chapters that are incredibly long on things like relays that, while correct and useful to people who use a lot of relays, are incredibly boring for 90% of the people that are going to be reading this book. Relay is a great device if you're making an oven but if you're making an oven you're not reading this book. That is to say, the writer is very intelligent as far as electrical engineering goes however the writer is not cognizant of who he is writing to, he switches between thinking his audiences incredibly developed in their Electronics knowledge and thinking that his audience knows nothing about Electronics. For example, the DC motor and AC motor section is the majority of the book. I mean not exactly but it's very long however a DC motor has two connectors and we all know how to wire it up to get it to work it's the simplest electronic component in the world. The mosfet is given 2 pages and is lumped in with the JFET, and enhancement mode, depletion mode, and channel, P Channel, the various regions, and it's applications (of which the P Channel mosfet application listed was something like "no one uses p channel mosfets") are zoomed through. The incongruity there being that the mosfet is very likely the most used electronic component in history and the relay is giving much more detail. however I got this book when I didn't know s*** about electronics and now I do so maybe I can sound all high-and-mighty like this because I read the book and having read the book I Now understand Electronics. It's a chicken or the egg kind of thing. But this is a genuine review and if this is what you want, and I'm sure it is, then you should buy the book because I did and now I know electronics well enough to write a review ragging on this book (chicken/egg ...ya know). ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2018 by Danny Sebahar

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