AoE x-Chapters, 2nd printing, need corrections, suggestions

My Amazon copy is still back-ordered. If you email me the whole thing, I'll look it over next week and comment. At my age and laziness, I can't ski dawn to dusk. I'll keep it confidential of course.

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John Larkin         Highland Technology, Inc 

lunatic fringe electronics

The CUP pre-order webpage is

They say, "Pre-order before 29 February and use code AEX2019P at the checkout to receive a 20% discount!" (The discount code box comes up later in the process.)

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 Thanks, 
    - Win

Winfield Hill wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@drn.newsguy.com:

Your CUP is *almost* ready to runneth over.

I'm still working on that, won't be ablk to finish until tomorrow. The book has 95 sections. Some are quite short, deal with a topic, be done. But most are longer. About 10 sections are 12 to 19 pages.

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There's so much talk about the X-Chapters here and elsewhere, but I've never seen a comment anywhere about the lab manual for either the 2nd or

3rd editions. X is more advanced or more in-depth, and the lab book is the opposite, but that makes it an excellent book for amateurs. It should be marketed more.

CUP is marketing the three books together.

Let's clear up one thing. Tom Hayes' book is no longer a lab manual for AoE, AoE 3rd or the x-Chapters. And its name, Learning the AoE, is a misnomer, because although it was supposed to be connected to AoE, with appropriate cross references, etc., sadly, it does not. It is lab oriented, but it's really Tom's approach to the scene.

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    - Win

One of my very few criticisms of the 2nd Edition was the chapter on jfets and mosfets which I felt jumped back and forth far too much between the various sub types and became confusing. Is that something that's been fixed in AOE3?

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"When constituencies are small their elected representatives must concern themselves with the local interests of their constituents. When political representatives are distant and faceless, on the other hand, and represent vast numbers of unknown constituents, they represent not their constituents, but special interest groups whose lobbyists are numerous and ever present. Typically in Europe a technocrat is an ex-politician or a civil servant. He is unelected, virtually impossible to dislodge during his term of employment and has been granted extensive executive and even legislative power without popular mandate and without being directly answerable to the people whose interests he falsely purports to represent."

- Sir James Goldsmith (Member of the European Parliament) 1933 - 1997

Dunno, but I completely re-wrote it and substantially expanded it as well, plus added lots of special material in the x-Chapters. One of my specialties is creating all kinds of analog HV circuits using power MOSFETs. Quite a bit of this stuff has been put up on s.e.d.

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 Thanks, 
    - Win

I did download all the x-chapters you linked to here, but have been so unusually busy with other stuff that I have pretty much completely missed the launch of the 3rd Edition and had no time to read the x-chaps either, I regret to say. I'm no electronics expert and never will be, but when it comes to editing stuff to improve comprehensibility I'm one of the best there is for that very reason (if you'll excuse the flagrant immodesty). Hopefully I'll still be around for the 4th Ed launch whenever that may be - and in a better position to contribute by then!

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"When constituencies are small their elected representatives must concern themselves with  
the local interests of their constituents. When political representatives are distant and  
faceless, on the other hand, and represent vast numbers of unknown constituents, they  
represent not their constituents, but special interest groups whose lobbyists are numerous  
and ever present. Typically in Europe a technocrat is an ex-politician or a civil servant.  
He is unelected, virtually impossible to dislodge during his term of employment and has  
been granted extensive executive and even legislative power without popular mandate and  
without being directly answerable to the people whose interests he falsely purports to 
represent."                                        

 - Sir James Goldsmith (Member of the European Parliament) 1933 - 1997

We solicit corrections and suggestions, and our long- suffering editor apply our list of changes before each new printing. So yes, you can still contribute.

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 Thanks, 
    - Win

I wrote an email offering to help, but sofar no reply :-)

Cheers

Klaus

Thanks for the reminder, I'm sending you a file now.

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 Thanks, 
    - Win

Great?

Have fun!

Chapter 9x, Advanced Topics in Power Control, is one of the shortest chapters, only 93 pages long. But there are lots of "power control" topics in the rest of the book, especially anything dealing with power MOSFETs. The BJT and Op-Amp chapters also delve into the power scene, but mostly with various high-voltage and/or pulsed design aspects.

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    - Win

9xp13: "As The Donald might say, ?you?re ?red!? ??" Really, Win, really? I know you like to add levity throughout, but please find someone else as inspiration...

Whew, I didn't know that was in there. No doubt written long ago, before we knew.

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    - Win

Well I don't know about Harvard, but there are probably schools here and there that use them together.