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Circuits, Data and Design
PRACTICAL ELECTRONIC FILTERS
Owen Bishop
This book deals with the subject in a non-mathematical
way. It reviews the main types of filter, explaining in simple terms how each type works and how it is used.
The book also presents a dozen filter-based projects
with applications in and around the home or in the
constructor’s workshop. These include a number of audio
projects such as a rythm sequencer and a multi-voiced
electronic organ.
Concluding the book is a practical step-by-step guide to
designing simple filters for a wide range of purposes, with
circuit diagrams and worked examples.
88 pages
Order code BP299
£5.49
ELECTRONIC HOBBYISTS DATA BOOK
R. A. Penfold
This book should tell you everything you are ever likely to
want to know about hobby electronics, but did not know
where to ask or refer. Comprehensive contents pages
makes it easy to quickly locate the data you require.
The subjects covered include: Common circuits, and
related data (including helpful graphs and tables of values); Colour codes for resistors, capacitors and inductors;
Pinout details for a wide range of CMOS and TTL devices,
plus basic data on the various logic families; Pinout
details and basic data for a wide range of operational
amplifiers; Data and leadout information for a wide range
of transistors, FETs, power FETs, triacs, thyristors,
diodes, etc; General data including MIDI message coding,
radio data, ASCII/Baudot coding, decibel ratios, etc.
242 pages
Order code BP396
£6.45
applicable, advice on how to alter the circuit parameters
is provided.
The circuits covered are mainly concerned with signal
generation, power supplies, and digital electronics.
The topics covered in this book include: 555 oscillators;
sinewave oscillators; function generators; CMOS oscillators; voltage controlled oscillators; radio frequency
oscillators; 555 monostables; CMOS monostables; TTL
monostables; precision long timers; power supply and
64 pages
Order code BP42
£2.99
CIRCUIT SOURCE BOOK 1
A. Penfold
Written to help you create and experiment with your own
electronic designs by combining and using the various
standard “building block’’ circuits provided. Where applicable, advice on how to alter the circuit parameters is
given.
The circuits covered in this book are mainly concerned
with analogue signal processing and include: Audio
amplifiers (op.amp and bipolar transistors); audio power
amplifiers; d.c. amplifiers; highpass, lowpass, bandpass
and notch filters; tone controls; voltage controlled amplifiers and filters; triggers and voltage comparators; gates
and electronic switching; bargraphs; mixers; phase
shifters, current mirrors, hold circuits, etc.
Over 150 circuits are provided, which it is hoped will be
useful to all those involved in circuit design and application, be they professionals, students or hobbyists.
182 pages
Temporarily out of print
A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO TTL DIGITAL ICs
R. A. Penfold
This book first covers the basics of simple logic circuits in
general, and then progresses to specific TTL logic
integrated circuits. The devices covered include gates,
oscillators, timers, flip/flops, dividers, and decoder circuits. Some practical circuits are used to illustrate the use
of TTL devices in the “real world’’.
142 pages
Order code BP332
£5.45
192 pages
Order code BP322
£5.45
Project Building & Testing
ELECTRONIC PROJECTS FOR EXPERIMENTERS
R. A. Penfold
Many electronic hobbyists who have been pursuing their
hobby for a number of years seem to suffer from the
dreaded “seen it all before’’ syndrome. This book is fairly
and squarely aimed at sufferers of this complaint, plus
any other electronics enthusiasts who yearn to try something a bit different. No doubt many of the projects featured here have practical applications, but they are all
worth a try for their interest value alone.
The subjects covered include:- Magnetic field detector,
Basic Hall effect compass, Hall effect audio isolator, Voice
scrambler/descrambler, Bat detector, Bat style echo location, Noise cancelling, LED stroboscope, Infra-red “torch’’,
Electronic breeze detector, Class D power amplifier,
Strain gauge amplifier, Super hearing aid.
138 pages
Order code BP371
£5.45
PRACTICAL FIBRE-OPTIC PROJECTS
R. A. Penfold
While fibre-optic cables may have potential advantages
over ordinary electric cables, for the electronics
enthusiast it is probably their novelty value that makes
them worthy of exploration. Fibre-optic cables provide an
innovative interesting alternative to electric cables, but in
most cases they also represent a practical approach to
the problem. This book provides a number of tried and
tested circuits for projects that utilize fibre-optic cables.
The projects include:- Simple audio links, F.M. audio
link, P.W.M. audio links, Simple d.c. links, P.W.M. d.c. link,
P.W.M. motor speed control, RS232C data links, MIDI
link, Loop alarms, R.P.M. meter.
All the components used in these designs are readily
available, none of them require the constructor to take out
a second mortgage.
132 pages
Order code BP374
£5.45
50 SIMPLE LED CIRCUITS
R. N. Soar
Contains 50 interesting and useful circuits and applications, covering many different branches of electronics,
using one of the most inexpensive and freely available
components – the light-emitting diode (LED). Also
includes circuits for the 707 common anode display.
regulator circuits; negative supply generators and voltage
boosters; digital dividers; decoders, etc; counters and display drivers; D/A and A/D converters; opto-isolators,
flip/flops, noise generators, tone decoders, etc.
Over 170 circuits are provided, which it is hoped will be
useful to all those involved in circuit design and application, be they professionals, students or hobbyists.
ELECTRONIC PROJECT BUILDING FOR BEGINNERS
R. A. Penfold
This book is for complete beginners to electronic project
building. It provides a complete introduction to the practical side of this fascinating hobby, including the following
topics:
Component identification, and buying the right parts;
resistor colour codes, capacitor value markings, etc;
advice on buying the right tools for the job; soldering;
making easy work of the hard wiring; construction methods, including stripboard, custom printed circuit boards,
plain matrix boards, surface mount boards and wire-wrapping; finishing off, and adding panel labels; getting “problem’’ projects to work, including simple methods of faultfinding.
In fact everything you need to know in order to get started in this absorbing and creative hobby.
135 pages
Order code BP392
£5.49
A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO MODERN ELECTRONIC
COMPONENTS
R. A. Penfold
The purpose of this book is to provide practical information to help the reader sort out the bewildering array
of components currently on offer. An advanced
knowledge of the theory of electronics is not needed,
and this book is not intended to be a course in electronic theory. The main aim is to explain the differences
between components of the same basic type (e.g. carbon, carbon film, metal film, and wire-wound resistors)
so that the right component for a given application can
be selected. A wide range of components are included,
with the emphasis firmly on those components that are
used a great deal in projects for the home constructor.
166 pages
Temporarily out of print
HOW TO USE OSCILLOSCOPES AND OTHER TEST
EQUIPMENT
R. A. Penfold
This book explains the basic function of an oscilloscope,
gives a detailed explanation of all the standard controls,
and provides advice on buying. A separate chapter
deals with using an oscilloscope for fault finding on
linear and logic circuits, plenty of example waveforms
help to illustrate the control functions and the effects of
various fault conditions. The function and use of various
other pieces of test equipment are also covered, including signal generators, logic probes, logic pulsers, and
crystal calibrators.
104 pages
Order code BP267
£4.00
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HOW TO USE OP.AMPS
E. A. Parr
This book has been written as a designer’s guide
covering many operational amplifiers, serving both as a
source book of circuits and a reference book for design
calculations. The approach has been made as non-mathematical as possible.
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CIRCUIT SOURCE BOOK 2
R. A. Penfold
This book will help you to create and experiment with your
own electronic designs by combining and using the various standard “building blocks’’ circuits provided. Where
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