Electronic and Electrical Servicing - Level 3

Electronic and Electrical Servicing -- Level 3 follows on from the Level 2 book and covers the more advanced electronics and electrical principles required by service engineers servicing home entertainment equipment such as TVs, CD and DVD machines, as well as commercial equipment including PCs. All the core units of the Level 3 Progression Award in Electrical and Electronics Servicing (Consumer/Commercial Electronics) from City & Guilds (C&G 6958) are covered. The book also offers a fully up-to-date course text for the City & Guilds 1687 NVQ at Level 3. The book contains numerous worked examples to help students grasp the principles. Each chapter ends with review questions, for which answers are provided at the end of the book, so that students can check their learning. Units covered: Unit 1 -- Electronic principles Unit 2 -- Test and measurement Unit 3 -- Analogue electronics Unit 4 -- Digital electronics Ian Sinclair has been an author of market-leading books for electronic servicing courses for over 20 years, helping many thousands of students through their college course and NVQs into successful careers. Now with a new co-author, John Dunton, the new edition has been brought fully up-to-date to reflect the most recent technical advances and developments within the service engineering industry, in particular with regard to television and PC servicing and technology. Level 2 book: Electronic and Electrical Servicing, ISBN 978-0-7506-6988-7, covers the 5 core units at Level 2, plus the option units Radio and television systems technology (Unit 6) and PC technology (Unit 8).

Table of Contents:
Unit 1 - Electronic principles: Sine wave driven circuits; Transformers and power transfer; Semiconductors, active devices and transducers. Unit 2 - Test and measurement: Meters and data; The analogue oscilloscope; Test and measurement; Rework, repair, reliability, safety and European Union directives. Unit 3 - Analogue electronics: Direct current power supplies; Analogue amplifiers; Oscillators and waveform generators. Unit 4 - Digital electronics: Logic families and terminology; Sequential logic; Digital communications; Test equipment and fault-finding. Answers to multiple-choice questions. Index.

About the Author :
Ian Sinclair was born in 1932 in Tayport, Fife, and graduated from the University of St. Andrews in 1956. In that year, he joined the English Electric Valve Co. in Chelmsford, Essex, to work on the design of specialised cathode-ray tubes, and later on small transmitting valves and TV transmitting tubes. In 1966, he became an assistant lecturer at Hornchurch Technical College, and in 1967 joined the staff of Braintree College of F.E. as a lecturer. His first book, "Understanding Electronic Components" was published in 1972, and he has been writing ever since, particularly for the novice in Electronics or Computing. The interest in computing arose after seeing a Tandy TRS80 in San Francisco in 1977, and of his 204 published books, about half have been on computing topics, starting with a guide to Microsoft Basic on the TRS80 in 1979. He left teaching in 1984 to concentrate entirely on writing, and has also gained experience in computer typesetting, particularly for mathematical texts. He has recently visited Seattle to see Microsoft at work, and to remind them that he has been using Microsoft products longer than most Microsoft employees can remember. Ian Sinclair is the author of the following Made Simple books: Lotus 1-2-3- (2.4 DOS version) MS-DOS (up to version 6.22) PagePlus for Windows 3.1 Hard drives He is also the author of many other books published under our Newnes imprint.Visit Ian's website at http://website.lineone.net/~ian_sinclair