D
Drake
- Jan 1, 1970
- 0
Hi Everyone,
I'm relatively new to studying electronics. I've purchased a few books
(some college textbooks, a couple of math books, and the book titled
"Electronic Circuits for the Evil Genius". I really like the last book
because it helps me understand how various pieces of a circuit are used
to do useful things. Again, the book is very high level - but at this
point, I simply want to see the 'big picture'. By no means am I using
this particular book as a sole guide - but I do find it very helpful.
I recently purchased a hit from Ramsey Electronics. Specifically, this
one:
https://www.ramseyelectronics.com/downloads/manuals/MD3.pdf
I purchased this kit because it looked like something fun to build and
my goal is to truly understand how it works. Unfortunately, there is
only 2 short paragraphs written in the text as to how it works. This is
a real bummer for me. I was hoping to see something like a block
diagram showing each piece of the schematic and what its actually
doing. I understand what a NPN, and PNP transistor is. I understand
how a capacitor and a resistor can be used to form a timing circuit -
but none of the circuit is really explained in the documentation (from
the link above ). I've got a student edition of Electronics Workbench
and tried building the small piece of the schematic (the section where
Q1 and Q2 are ) all the way though to wear they connect to the LM-324
OPAmp. I can see how the capacitors 'fill' up but don't understand how
the polarity reverses (there's a +9V DC supply this subcircuit is
connected to do) .
Could someone who has some time, take a look at the schematic and get
me started in understanding this? It would be great if someone could
help me break this down into some sort of block diagram . I was
thinking about just breadboarding everything before I actually solder
and assemble the components - simply because I'm thinking I will learn
more that way. If I put this thing together, I feel only my soldering
skills will get better and I will leave this project not knowing
anything more than I started.
Thanks in advance for any guidance.
I'm relatively new to studying electronics. I've purchased a few books
(some college textbooks, a couple of math books, and the book titled
"Electronic Circuits for the Evil Genius". I really like the last book
because it helps me understand how various pieces of a circuit are used
to do useful things. Again, the book is very high level - but at this
point, I simply want to see the 'big picture'. By no means am I using
this particular book as a sole guide - but I do find it very helpful.
I recently purchased a hit from Ramsey Electronics. Specifically, this
one:
https://www.ramseyelectronics.com/downloads/manuals/MD3.pdf
I purchased this kit because it looked like something fun to build and
my goal is to truly understand how it works. Unfortunately, there is
only 2 short paragraphs written in the text as to how it works. This is
a real bummer for me. I was hoping to see something like a block
diagram showing each piece of the schematic and what its actually
doing. I understand what a NPN, and PNP transistor is. I understand
how a capacitor and a resistor can be used to form a timing circuit -
but none of the circuit is really explained in the documentation (from
the link above ). I've got a student edition of Electronics Workbench
and tried building the small piece of the schematic (the section where
Q1 and Q2 are ) all the way though to wear they connect to the LM-324
OPAmp. I can see how the capacitors 'fill' up but don't understand how
the polarity reverses (there's a +9V DC supply this subcircuit is
connected to do) .
Could someone who has some time, take a look at the schematic and get
me started in understanding this? It would be great if someone could
help me break this down into some sort of block diagram . I was
thinking about just breadboarding everything before I actually solder
and assemble the components - simply because I'm thinking I will learn
more that way. If I put this thing together, I feel only my soldering
skills will get better and I will leave this project not knowing
anything more than I started.
Thanks in advance for any guidance.