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Teardowns: Learn How Electronics Work by Taking Them Apart

Published: July 2010

eISBN: 9780071713351 0071713352 | ISBN: 9780071713344

Book description:

Learn Practical Electronics From a Skilled Mentor!

"The text is written as if Dr. Bergeron, who is a highly experienced electronics practitioner, is speaking directly to the reader with a point-by-point commentary about each teardown, complete with clear explanations of the operation and function of every component. By the time the product is completely disassembled, the reader understands the design tricks, component selection, and packaging choices that enabled the product to reach the market." -- From the Foreword by Forrest M. Mims III

Amp up your knowledge of electronics by deconstructing common devices and analyzing the revealed components and circuitry. Teardowns: Learn How Electronics Work by Taking Them Apart contains 14 projects that expose the inner workings of household appliances, workbench measuring instruments, and musical equipment. Discover how resistors, capacitors, sensors, transducers, and transistors function in real circuitry. You'll even get details on custom modifications to electric guitar pickups, an effects pedal, and a tube amp. Essential instructions for safely launching your own teardowns are also included in this hands-on guide.

Learn about sensors and ICs from smoke detectors and motion-activated lights
Work with the LCD and strain gauge transducers in a digital scale
Discover how surge protectors, power conditioners, and UPS units function
Study thermal design techniques in compact fluorescent bulbs
Analyze the control systems in ultrasonic humidifiers and digital thermometers
Understand how op amps and power ICs work in a hi-fi stereo amplifier
Figure out how ultrasonic transducers work in a laser-guided measuring device
Explore electric guitar pickups, effects pedals, and tube amplifiers

Make Great Stuff! TAB, an imprint of McGraw-Hill Professional, is a leading publisher of DIY technology books for makers, hackers, and electronics hobbyists.

Bryan Bergeron

is editor of

Nuts & Volts Magazine

and

Servo Magazine

, the author of several hundred articles, and two dozen books, and owner of several patents. He teaches in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Bryan's company, Archetype Technologies, Inc., develops intelligent systems in the military.

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Teardowns: Learn How Electronics Work by Taking Them Apart