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Practical Electronic Fault-Finding and Troubleshooting (Paperback)

by ROBIN PAIN (Author) "Microprocessor systems and analogue circuits are entirely different, forcing this book to be split into two parts, but there is a strong relationship between the..." (more)
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'Robin Pain has st down in words (almost entirely free of maths) the experience of many years practical work on audio, radio, TV and computer equipment.'
Electronics Education, Spring 1997


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It isn't enough to be able to design. It isn't even enough to be able to debug. To be a real fault finder, you must be able to get a feel for what is going on in the circuit you are examining. In this book Robin Pain explains the basic techniques needed to be fault finder.


Simple circuit examples are used to illustrate principles and concepts fundamental to the process of fault finding. This is not a book of theory. It is a book of practical tips, hints, and rules of thumb, all of which will equip the reader to tackle any job, whether it is fixing a TV, improving the sound from a hi-fi, or locating the fault in a piece of process equipment. You may be an engineer or technician in search of information and guidance, a college student, a hobbyist building a project from a magazine, or simply a keen self-taught amateur who is interested in electronic fault finding but finds books on the subject too mathematical or specialised. But you have one thing lacking, no fault-finding strategy. Seasoned
professional designers have that peculiar knowledge of their own work and specialised knowledge of its components to allow them to analyse and remove faults quickly on the spot (design errors take a little longer!). Fault finders can never have this depth of specialisation;
commercial pressures demand a minimum-knowledge-to-do-the-job approach. Practical Electronic Fault Finding and Troubleshooting describes the fundamental principles of analog and digital fault finding (although of course there is no such thing as a `digital fault' - all faults are by nature analog). This book is written entirely for a fault finder using only the basic fault-finding equipment: a digital multimeter and an oscilloscope. The treatment is non-mathematical (apart from Ohm's Law) and all jargon is strictly avoided. Robin Pain was originally trained to service colour TV, and has worked as an industrial fault finder for manufacturers of mobile radio, audio equipment, microcomputers and medical equipment. He has lectured at home and abroad on microcomputer fault finding.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Book, 31 Mar 2007
By Andy K (Essex, UK) - See all my reviews
I am a hobbyist, my only qualification in electronics being a GCSE in that I took for fun about ten years ago, and shortly after that obtaining a radio amateurs licence. Since that time, I have got more and more interested in analogue electronics, and recently I have been repairing an old Tektronix oscilloscope. I found this book extremely useful on several occasions, for example at the point where I was going crazy with frustration trying to solve a sweep problem, and then a lack of oscillation that had cut out the HT. For me, this book is not for reading from cover to cover but for dipping in to chapters when needed, in my case the analogue sections. The circuit examples are great and I believe the way they are presented is unique - I have several other troubleshooting books but I have found that they tend to be over complicated and thus not helpful when you are in the heat of battle. Most problem solving in the end comes down to knowledge of fundamental principles, and therefore the rules of thumb, questions and answers, and hints within this book are invaluable.
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1.0 out of 5 stars dont bother buying this, 23 Feb 2006
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this book is very hard to read and leaves you, in places, more clueless than before you opened it.

i think it may need some more proof reading and re-printing as the idea is good enough, just sometimes the language used is not very clear.

i have given up after reading about half the book, i have had three attempts at reading it but got frustrated and gave up every time.

i am an electronics engineer with BTEC qualifications in electronic engineering and this book was of no use to me.

waste of time and money.

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