Electronics

One of my first hobbies, and still enduring as my favorite. Check out what kind of mayhem I've brewed up over the years...

Tube Technology

• 50C5 SET Amp
• Revision 3
• Frankenhouse
• Tube Drag Racing? Why not!
• Compound Tube Amplifier challege
• 6HS5 Insides

Analog Solid State

• SMPS Stuff, part 2
• Small Tesla coil
• Sample and Hold theory and circuits
• Avalanche pulse generator
• Joule Thief: possibly the largest on the internets?
• LED Light Strings

Digital Circuits

• Flip Flop explanation, design and beauty
• RAM Read/Writer
• Z80 Microprocessor project

General

• Advice and Tutorials: various lengthy electronics posts I've made over the years
  • Amplifier Classes
  • Amplifier Hum
  • Cathode Follower Loadline Graphing
  • Improvised Tube Curve Tracer
  • Source vs. Load Matching vs. Impedance
  • Tube Amplifier Bandwidth
  • What is a Flux Capacitor?
• My complete collection of computerized schematics: to 2004, 2004-2007, 2008-2010
• Schematic Drawing
• Winding Transformers, part one
• Induction heating: part one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine
• Making of: tank capacitor
• Inductor theory and testing
• Magnetic theory, including practical transformer and inductor design
• Class A amplifier theory
• A new long-term project: modifying an oscilloscope
• Regulator theory

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