Analog Theory & Design reference books
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The English translation is called "Electronic Circuits: Handbook for Design and Application", 2nd ed, and it is 1543 pages long. I had already mentioned it in one of my previous posts. And you are right, it is a great book. If you buy it hardcover it is prohibitively expensive, but there is a very affordable softcover "International Edition" you can purchase.
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For those who can read German, I would suggest the Books from Vogel Fachbuchverlag, see here: Collection. I used Volume 1 ("Elektrotechnische Grundlagen") and Volume 3 ("Grundschaltungen") intensively throughout my apprenticeship. The advantage is, that they only ask for very little maths. Elementary knowledge of algebra is enough, calculus is not required. They target an audience with elementary knowledge of physics and build up from there. They are also relatively affordable. For those with advanced knowledge I go with MicUlli and recommend Tietze/Schenk.
So I'm currently through chapter 4 in James W. Nilsson, Susan Riedel - Electric Circuits, which is the book we're using in the Electrical Circuits subject in the EE bachelor I just started in August. Just learned about Node-Voltage and Mesh-current methods, Thevenin equivalents and using KVL/KCL and ohms law to solve simple circuits. It's all so different than how I've envisioned while cluelessly gazing at the various schematics of stuff I've built... so much more... mathematical 
Can't wait to introduce capacitors, opamps and transistors and hopefully start looking at more... interesting/applicable circuits
Can't wait to introduce capacitors, opamps and transistors and hopefully start looking at more... interesting/applicable circuits
Some Braunbuch information I learned from radiomuseum that didn’t belong in technical documents.
This is a great article by Nikolaus Rowe. I’m reading it google translated. Here is an excerpt.
https://www.radiomuseum.org/lf/b/braunbuch-beschreibung-ard-irt/
“The Braunbuch and the Braunbuch names
In connection with devices of recording studio technology, there is always talk of "brown book" or "brown book descriptions". Devices that are in the brown book are said to have almost mystical properties. But what is the Braunbuch actually, and what do the Braunbuch names mean? The aim of this article is to shed some light on the dark half-darkness of the legend.
The NWDR Braunbücher, edition 1959
Most of the time, "brown book" means the NWDR Braunbuch. The NWDR is the Nordwestdeutsche Rundfunk, the first German broadcaster after the 2nd World War and forerunner of ARD.
The NWDR Braunbuch, on the other hand, is based on the RRG Braunbuch: As early as 1930 to 1933, the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft introduced a designation of all devices intended for technical operation according to a system of letters and numbers (see also NWDR Braunbuch, Part II "Studiotechnik", Z20). The documents for these devices were collected in folders. After the war, the editor was the NWR Zentraltechnik, so in-house developments of the NWDR were also included.
A brown book extract is a single device description, which is often multi-sided, and contains important service information and circuit diagrams. Braunbuch extracts are also helpful when dating devices, as the operating introduction is noted on it. For complex devices, there are individual descriptions for the components, e.g. the tape drive AEG K4, as well as the magnetic heads, recording and playback amplifiers, and the power supply.
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In addition to the documents in Part I ("device descriptions"), which are usually meant when one speaks abbreviated of the "brown book", there is also the folder Part II ("studio technology"), which contains information on the setup and operation of complete studio systems. These include construction guidelines for studio systems, metrological terms, level diagram, information on the broadcasting line network, radio protection, but also the organization of the NWDR. This later became the technical guidelines of the ARD, which are still often used as a basis for tenders today, also because there is no other set of rules that deals so comprehensively with the technical aspects of studio system construction. Part III of the NWDR brown book is about transmitter technology.
The brown books are not fixed bound books in the true sense, but loose-leaf collections in the characteristic colored folders. It was planned to update them regularly, whereby outdated descriptions or those of decommissioned devices were also excluded. In a well-maintained brown book, the leaves for devices that were taken over from the pre-war period after the war are therefore missing, because they were usually replaced by new developments in the course of the 1950s. Example: The Neumann bottle B-V30.”
Read much much more at the link!
This is a great article by Nikolaus Rowe. I’m reading it google translated. Here is an excerpt.
https://www.radiomuseum.org/lf/b/braunbuch-beschreibung-ard-irt/
“The Braunbuch and the Braunbuch names
In connection with devices of recording studio technology, there is always talk of "brown book" or "brown book descriptions". Devices that are in the brown book are said to have almost mystical properties. But what is the Braunbuch actually, and what do the Braunbuch names mean? The aim of this article is to shed some light on the dark half-darkness of the legend.
The NWDR Braunbücher, edition 1959
Most of the time, "brown book" means the NWDR Braunbuch. The NWDR is the Nordwestdeutsche Rundfunk, the first German broadcaster after the 2nd World War and forerunner of ARD.
The NWDR Braunbuch, on the other hand, is based on the RRG Braunbuch: As early as 1930 to 1933, the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft introduced a designation of all devices intended for technical operation according to a system of letters and numbers (see also NWDR Braunbuch, Part II "Studiotechnik", Z20). The documents for these devices were collected in folders. After the war, the editor was the NWR Zentraltechnik, so in-house developments of the NWDR were also included.
A brown book extract is a single device description, which is often multi-sided, and contains important service information and circuit diagrams. Braunbuch extracts are also helpful when dating devices, as the operating introduction is noted on it. For complex devices, there are individual descriptions for the components, e.g. the tape drive AEG K4, as well as the magnetic heads, recording and playback amplifiers, and the power supply.
….
In addition to the documents in Part I ("device descriptions"), which are usually meant when one speaks abbreviated of the "brown book", there is also the folder Part II ("studio technology"), which contains information on the setup and operation of complete studio systems. These include construction guidelines for studio systems, metrological terms, level diagram, information on the broadcasting line network, radio protection, but also the organization of the NWDR. This later became the technical guidelines of the ARD, which are still often used as a basis for tenders today, also because there is no other set of rules that deals so comprehensively with the technical aspects of studio system construction. Part III of the NWDR brown book is about transmitter technology.
The brown books are not fixed bound books in the true sense, but loose-leaf collections in the characteristic colored folders. It was planned to update them regularly, whereby outdated descriptions or those of decommissioned devices were also excluded. In a well-maintained brown book, the leaves for devices that were taken over from the pre-war period after the war are therefore missing, because they were usually replaced by new developments in the course of the 1950s. Example: The Neumann bottle B-V30.”
Read much much more at the link!
I put this background I found on the Brown Books in this thread to allow for conversation about the BOOKS, what is, or not in them, and how we might do getting copies of the not posted material going forward.Some Braunbuch information I learned from radiomuseum that didn’t belong in technical documents.
This is a great article by Nikolaus Rowe. I’m reading it google translated. Here is an excerpt.
https://www.radiomuseum.org/lf/b/braunbuch-beschreibung-ard-irt/
“The Braunbuch and the Braunbuch names
In connection with devices of recording studio technology, there is always talk of "brown book" or "brown book descriptions". Devices that are in the brown book are said to have almost mystical properties. But what is the Braunbuch actually, and what do the Braunbuch names mean? The aim of this article is to shed some light on the dark half-darkness of the legend.
The NWDR Braunbücher, edition 1959
Most of the time, "brown book" means the NWDR Braunbuch. The NWDR is the Nordwestdeutsche Rundfunk, the first German broadcaster after the 2nd World War and forerunner of ARD.
The NWDR Braunbuch, on the other hand, is based on the RRG Braunbuch: As early as 1930 to 1933, the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft introduced a designation of all devices intended for technical operation according to a system of letters and numbers (see also NWDR Braunbuch, Part II "Studiotechnik", Z20). The documents for these devices were collected in folders. After the war, the editor was the NWR Zentraltechnik, so in-house developments of the NWDR were also included.
A brown book extract is a single device description, which is often multi-sided, and contains important service information and circuit diagrams. Braunbuch extracts are also helpful when dating devices, as the operating introduction is noted on it. For complex devices, there are individual descriptions for the components, e.g. the tape drive AEG K4, as well as the magnetic heads, recording and playback amplifiers, and the power supply.
….
In addition to the documents in Part I ("device descriptions"), which are usually meant when one speaks abbreviated of the "brown book", there is also the folder Part II ("studio technology"), which contains information on the setup and operation of complete studio systems. These include construction guidelines for studio systems, metrological terms, level diagram, information on the broadcasting line network, radio protection, but also the organization of the NWDR. This later became the technical guidelines of the ARD, which are still often used as a basis for tenders today, also because there is no other set of rules that deals so comprehensively with the technical aspects of studio system construction. Part III of the NWDR brown book is about transmitter technology.
The brown books are not fixed bound books in the true sense, but loose-leaf collections in the characteristic colored folders. It was planned to update them regularly, whereby outdated descriptions or those of decommissioned devices were also excluded. In a well-maintained brown book, the leaves for devices that were taken over from the pre-war period after the war are therefore missing, because they were usually replaced by new developments in the course of the 1950s. Example: The Neumann bottle B-V30.”
Read much much more at the link!
In technical documents I tried to describe the specific document I was posting, which I believe is the full index .pdf in case the copy I borrowed from becomes unavailable.
This is pretty neat and we might be able to “ask a librarian” or “ask a Postdammer” for a little help with what we know.
Terry O’Hanlon runs a Watkins Johnson website for “Black Radios”, often hand made in small quantities for deep pocketed buyers.
(Terry is a casual member here I think?)
He recently posted a very interesting document towards best electronics building techniques!
“November 7, 2024 - The Watkins-Johnson Workmanship Standards Manual. Documents like these were common among companies that had exacting standards for construction techniques in the electronics industry. Anyone who has ever looked inside a Watkins-Johnson or Communication Electronics, Inc radio can see that their radios were built to the highest standards.
This is a higher resolution scan of a very similar document that has been removed from the document index page.
This manual can be downloaded from the WJ & CEI Document Index page. Look near the bottom under Misc Technical Information.”
(Here is a more direct link but check out his website!)http://watkins-johnson.terryo.org/documents/technical-info/Workmanship-Standards-Manual-1978.pdf
(Terry is a casual member here I think?)
He recently posted a very interesting document towards best electronics building techniques!
“November 7, 2024 - The Watkins-Johnson Workmanship Standards Manual. Documents like these were common among companies that had exacting standards for construction techniques in the electronics industry. Anyone who has ever looked inside a Watkins-Johnson or Communication Electronics, Inc radio can see that their radios were built to the highest standards.
This is a higher resolution scan of a very similar document that has been removed from the document index page.
This manual can be downloaded from the WJ & CEI Document Index page. Look near the bottom under Misc Technical Information.”
(Here is a more direct link but check out his website!)http://watkins-johnson.terryo.org/documents/technical-info/Workmanship-Standards-Manual-1978.pdf
ruffrecords
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WOW, that takes me back. I had completely forgotten about Raychem solder sleeves.
Cheers
ian
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ian
