On Jan 28, 2007, at 10:58 AM, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

>> Do I start at the + power supply and then make my way
>>  through all the components imagining in what "state"
>>  the current is in as it passes through each piece?
>
> I do that only for a basic circuit that is new to me. A 'real'
> circuit often consists of a number of basic circuits...

Right.  What Linday proposed would be equivalent to analyzing a
C++ program by looking at the machine code.  First step; learn
to recognize the "subroutines" and basic hardware constructs.

BillW

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