Troubleshooting Analog Circuits
by Robert A. Pease · first published 1991
6mentions
3recommended by
4HN commenters
2020–2026first – last mentioned
75% recommend25% neutral
Affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
…resistors/capacitors/inductors and play with that. A bit more advanced or not: - Texas Instruments' "Op Amps For Everyone"[6] - "Op-Amp Concepts" by Greg Kovacs - "Op-Amp Applications Seminar" In depth: - "Troubleshooting Analog Circuits", by Robert Pease. More in depth: Application notes from manufacturers to get ideas for designs. But to sum it up: - Getting on dedicated forums - Getting the test board and components (to tinker)…
on “Ask HN: Good resources for learning electronic curcuits and PCB design” ↗…debugging is very helpful as attempting to follow traces on a board is not fun and error prone. Some Resources: http://sound-au.com/ - can't recommend this DiY audio site enough. https://www.amazon.com/Troubleshooting-Analog-Circuits-Desig... good book I read years ago - Bob Pease was a fantastic engineer and writer.
on “Music from Outer Space” ↗…working circuits rather than, as one might assume, “sending diagrams and formulas [their] way”. But it does seem that way if someone tries to open it for the first time. It is a slog and a half. Take Troubleshooting Analog Circuits by Bob Pease. He throws something janky at you to see if you can intuit what could the culprits be. He then elaborates the ways in which things can go wrong. This is an introductory chapter. Many books…
on “The Secret Life of Circuits is now in stock everywhere” ↗…protector designs. "If life gives you lemons, make lemonade". Since they fail as a short circuit, early chip designers exploited this property as a one-time programmable fuse for factory calibration. Quote Troubleshooting Analog Circuits by Robert A. Pease. > As mentioned earlier, a diode tends to fail by becoming a short circuit when overpowered, and zeners cannot absorb as much power as you would expect from short pulses. How dreadful;…
on “Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses (2020)” ↗"Even things that can't go wrong, do." - Troubleshooting Analog Circuits, Robert "Bob" Pease. I had an application on a Raspberry PI that paired with a Bluetooth Low Energy device to fetch and send its data through a 3G dongle, on the premises of non-technical people who…
on “Ask HN: How to 100% enable remote infrastructure?” ↗"Even things that can't go wrong, do" - Troubleshooting Analog Circuits, Robert Allen Pease. Your perfect plans are drawn around a set of hypotheses and premises, chained unfortunately, some of which I'm not uncertain would be proven wrong the moment you'd try and execute.…
on “Ask HN: Does a perfect plan increase the chances of success or a partial plan?” ↗