{"id":870,"date":"2018-08-29T17:09:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T16:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=870"},"modified":"2019-02-03T18:32:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T18:32:48","slug":"book-learning-about-valve-or-tube-circuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/book-learning-about-valve-or-tube-circuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Book learning about Valve or Tube circuits"},"content":{"rendered":"

University taught me most of what I needed to know about the theory of electronics, but not a jot about valves. They had been dropped from the curriculum in the 1970’s in favour of these new integrated circuit things!<\/p>\n

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Selection of Valve Electronics books<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Having acquired a Quad Valve system in need of attention I had to learn about Valves.<\/p>\n

This was the early 1980’s. No web then. Paper books were the only way to go. Fortunately my then Girlfriends father was an ex-Navy man. He kindly gave me a set of “Common Core Basic Electronics<\/strong>” books. I used these to fill the gaps in my knowledge.<\/p>\n

The Common Core books are intended to train Navy technicians. I suppose an early version of the modern advert on TV “If you can fix a skateboard … then you can fix a Samsung Radar”. The emphasis is on understanding and repair rather than design. They acknowledge this themselves in the introduction.<\/p>\n

“.. If you are one of those chaps who can absorb and retain everything in these manuals at a single reading, you have no business reading them anyway. A whopping great text book with a B.Sc at the end of it , would in that case be far more your mark”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately these books left me as part of the package when I sold the Quad Amps. Recently I have bought replacements for parts 1-3 and will probably get the rest in due course. They are very good.<\/p>\n

Another, more concise alternative is “Electronics” by Roland Worcester.<\/p>\n

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Inside Rolands book<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is full colour illustrated book which straddles Valve and early Transistor technology. Great as an introduction, but maybe not detailed enough if you are getting your hands dirty.<\/p>\n

These days of course google is your friend, but for a really good all round electronics text book you can’t go far wrong with “The Art of Electronics<\/strong>” by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill. I used this text book back in the early ’80s. It doesn’t cover valves though. My friends son, who is currently studying electronics at Cambridge, also has a copy. The detail may change in 35 years, but “Ye cannee change the laws of physics”. It certainly helped me to my B.Sc, and is currently doing the same for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

University taught me most of what I needed to know about the theory of electronics, but not a jot about valves. They had been dropped from the curriculum in the 1970’s in favour of these new integrated circuit things! Having acquired a Quad Valve system in need of attention I had to learn about Valves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amplifier","category-paraphernalia","category-repair","category-valves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}