Electronic Magazine Recommendations

"Nuts and Volts" is a good hobbyist-level magazine. I beleive you have to subscribe to the print version in order to get the e version, but I'm not positive that this is the case. It has a nice mix of analog and digital articles. You won't find any sophisticated circuit analyses here. Jon

A good source for analog topics is Planet Analog. Their URL once was

But it looks like EETimes has acquired Planet Analog. It is not a hard copy publication and not for novices. But it is a good place to look for information if you want to stay on top of the latest trends. See:

Did you ever consider reading application notes from semiconductor manufacterers? Especially the older ones contain a lot of detailed information.

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IMHO you cant go past:

In hard or e-copy

Yep, I found these much more informative that the magazines these days (online or hardcopy).

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John Devereux

Nice link thanks. I once suggested (to linear tech and Analog Dev) that they could gather some of their best app notes on a subject and publish them together in book. I'd buy one. I do like a hard copy so I can scribble on the pages.

George H.

I have an big old beast of a laser printer that takes virtually free consumables (ebays finest). For my last vacation away I printed out several of the "novel length" ANs referenced above, so I could get my electronics fix. Sad geek that I am :)...

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John Devereux

Surf over to

and download their "Circuit Collection" documents. They're collections of past app notes and design ideas. I have a few of them in hard copy, but I don't think they're available any more; just in PDF format. Some of them date back to the 80s and 90s... great for reminiscing and ideas for old applications using new components.

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Dave M expounded in news: snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

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I have and I do read those, though I must confess that I don't go looking for them. But I think the suggestion is a good one.

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I'll definitely check the ideas out posted in this thread. I am carrying a pager this week, so my life is currently "on hold". I look into this after the pager is gone. :)

Thanks everyone.

Warren

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I got a nice comb binding machine at a hamfest one year for $15. These are great for binding laser printed stuff into a nice book that opens flat.

I made sure years ago to get a double-sided printer, which makes a world of difference in book thinness. That is a fairly common feature now, but one I wouldn't do without.

Warren

I bought a giant stapler, takes something like 20 or 25mm staples. The resulting "book" doesn't open flat but its very quick and the result is fine for me. I have a manual comb binder but you can only punch a few sheets at a time.

Absolutely.

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For stuff I don't feel like taking the time to bind, I just use those black paper clamps (I don't recall the correct nomenclature). But I have used the big stapler at the office for big wordy stuff I have to scan through for the important info that I otherwise plan to recycle.

Warren

What exactly causes xerox copies and laser printed ink/toner to transfer to the back of the sheet in front of it in a stack?

I've had old manuals that transfered like that and wonder if anybody knows the exact mechanism by which this happens, or a way to avoid / prevent it?

I have considered this to be especially problematic when using two sided prints/copies because transferring to the blank back of each sheet does not obscure any crucial information.

I bought an IBICO comb punch and binder (at retail) many years ago when I was giving lots of seminars. Nice machine. I still use it a lot to bind things like my IBIS SPEC v5.0, double-sided printed on my hp P2015dn, it's still 5/8" thick ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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I use a4 4 ring binders for the project serious stuff and a big /small stapler for everything else. The 4 ring binders are a little more expensive, but more robust than the 2 ring variety.

Also invested in an A3 printer this year to replace an earlier hp. Hp

5000 series and needed a $20 roller kit (chinese), but very low cost. Does a3 / a4 and hasn't skipped a beat yet. Great for the schematic capture and pcb output.

Double sided will have to wait a while...

Regards,

Chris

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In the past, I had seen this happen with photocopies, when I kept them in the basement where there was some dampness.

I have not seen any of this in my double sided prints from my own laser printer. Our current basement is not as damp as the former.

Warren

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I'm pretty certain mine is IBICO as well. Once you have one of those, you never look back. Mine will bind big- you just have to punch in smallish sections of 10-20 pages though.

Warren