[sdiy] Becoming better at understanding difficult analog schematics

[Paulo Constantino]

I actually bought volume 1 of that book a few weeks ago. I wanted to go
through them one by one
and study them. THere is just little description of each one.

On Sun, May 12, 2024 at 9:37 PM Ben Bradley via Synth-diy <
synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:

> I've studied many books on electronics. A good series of books is "The
> encyclopedia of electronic circuits" - there's at least 7 volumes.
> It's reproductions of "circuits and Ideas" type magazine articles from
> EE Times and such, and most circuits have a good English description,
> similar to Heathkit manuals which included both schematics and
> "Circuit Description" sections, which I also recommend. Here's a link
> to one I quickly found:
> https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780070110779
>
> Is there a specific schematic you have in mind? If you post it here we
> should be able to help you with it.
>
> There's a couple of schematics I've looked at and didn't manage to
> figure out anything, the Yamaha CS-80 (it's huge anyway), it seems to
> be mostly lines connecting everything. Likewise is the Technics SP-10
> turntable, an older direct drive that uses a lot of discrete
> transistors in the drive electronics. I can guess overall how it
> works, but couldn't tell which groups of transistors did what. There's
> a big thread on it at diyaudio.com and I've asked there, but I suspect
> they don't want to admit they don't know how it works.
>
> On Sat, 11 May 2024 at 19:44, Paulo Constantino via Synth-diy
> <synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I wanted to ask a question that has been on my mind lately.
> >
> > I consider myself a beginner in electronics.
> > I know all the fundamental stuff, or how can I express it... I
> understand the landscape of electronics from a high point of view.
> >
> > However what gets me constantly is this...
> > When I look at analog electronics schematics, specially big ones, they
> don't make sense to me, or at least not within the first few minutes of
> looking at them. I find that most schematics are highly "non-linear". By
> that I mean that there are feedback loops everywhere, many times from
> places in the schematics that are far away from each other.
> >
> > Schematics that are more linear flowing are easier for me because I can
> see the "blocks" and how they connect to each other. But many schematics
> are so non-linear and I find that difficult to understand.
> >
> > How to become better at this? If you are an experienced electronics
> engineer, can you yourself understand these "non-linear" schematics by just
> looking at them if you have not seen that type of circuit before?
> >
> > Thank you very much for reading this and responding if you can.
> >
> > Paulo
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