On 7 Feb 2007 at 13:24, Lindy Mayfield wrote:

> Thank you.  You've probably some idea of how much H&H digging plus
> other electronics books and Google I did to get that far.  

You may find that you learn better using experiments. Some do, some don't. 
Maybe someone can recommend a book or source of simple experiments 
that demonstrate fundamental concepts (voltage dividers, zener diodes, 
transistors, etc). That way, Olin can direct you in the context of the circuit as 
a system and you can take the fundamental concept of the component and 
see the hows and whys of using it.

I suspect that if it took lots of digging to find the key points of a zener 
amongst the not-so-key points, you are going to find transistors very 
frustrating.

Steve.


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