Art of Electronics, 3rd edition, free 109-page chapter

Congratulations on the release of the new book. I ordered a copy a couple of weeks ago and is eagerly awaiting my cope (I have the old version too)

About the chapter, I don't see anything about digital control of SMPS, but perhaps I missed it

Cheers

Klaus

I like the heatsink symbol ;-) ...Jim Thompson

Guaranteed to make us drool, slaver, pine, line up at the ordering gates, and haunt our mailboxes :-)

Thanks very much indeed (both for this early look at one chapter, and at bringing this work to fruition)!

Stop the presses!

Beautiful!

Except for one thing... why'd you have to use the "dumb" MOSFET symbols? :( Whose vote was that?

Tim

-- Seven Transistor Labs Electrical Engineering Consultation Website:

page 629, Section 9.5.1, first line, "neutral" is supposed to be "ground" and is noted correctly at the bottom of the page, but the miscue in the first line might confuse the uninitiated.

Also, Blue and brown are commonly used for Neutral and hot.

Cheers

_That_ is in note 39 at the bottom of that column.

Good, I'll start taking notes.

Overall I find it very readable, I have preordered the book so I am looking forward to see whats new.

Cheers

Yes, but the neat heat sink symbol makes up for it. :)

tm

Maybe you've talked about it elsewhere, but I'm a bit curious as to the process. Did you start with TeX (or some other markup language), a commercial WYSIWYG word processor, or the old-fashioned way with Selectrics and red pens?

I wondered when downloadable content was going to make the jump from vidyagames to books.

Pictures have gotten cheaper since 1989. Apparently so have footnotes. :)

The money quote here is probably "This is like getting rid of a cow pie by stomping on it", although "Dude, this is a league game" is a good contender.

Cy appears in fig. 9.74 with no discussion, but it does get talked about later, in the discussion around fig 9.83.

C-Zn and NiCd don't exist anymore. I'm pretty sure I know the reasons, but it's interesting to live in the future.

The review section at the end of the chapter is new. It looks like the "good circuits" and "bad circuits" sections have gone away.

Thanks for posting it!

Matt Roberds

The cap in front of the regulator shown in Figure 9.25 is also noted. It doubles as a Circuit Cellar challenge clue for those in need. :)

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Thanks for the sample. Maybe I'll update my 2nd edition.

I found a typo by dumb luck: Page 646, Figure 9.65, Vout label.

Hopefully there will be an x-chapter on magnetics. You've made some posts here that should be in it.

well thank you. I already preodered the book ;)

Bye Jack

Thanks, yes, that'll be in Chapter 1x, properties of passive parts. Dunno how much will make it, but yes it's important.

I'm looking at Vout, what's wrong with that? Oops, 3.3V, 5A. Good catch. We'll get these things fixed in the 2nd printing.

On a sunny day (5 Mar 2015 05:01:39 -0800) it happened Winfield Hill wrote in :

I ws looking for the word 'soldering', and all I found was: Figure 9.46. An extended selection of power packages, shown here and in Figure 9.47. The leadless packages in the bottom row require "reflow" solder techniques (trade in your soldering iron and wire solder for an oven and solder-paste dispenser!).

Will there be a chapter on what end of that thing to hold, and what sort of thing to melt with it?

I mean, come on, it all starts and ends with that.