[regal]

I'm an engineer (chemical) with basic electronic knowledge (rusty). I want to build a hybrid tube amp like the millet or stoopid but reading posts and desriptions on the web leave me cold. I learn by first understanding fundamentals.

Can anyone recommend a good book that would explain plate voltage, biasing, ground principles, buffer stage, diamond buffer modules, hooking up a transformer for a PSU, etc

 

[ATAT]

Hehe. I love responding to these posts.

Get the Art of Electronics - Horowitz and Hill. simply amazing book. That book has all the electronics knowledge needed.

Also, go to tangent's site http://tangentsoft.net and make a CMoy. its a very simple circuit and if you analyze how it works, you should 'get' it.

IMHO, every DIY person should have a SPICE program, but thats later on.

 

[Samgotit]

The default book seems to be The Art of Electronics. It's good. I enjoy the short paragraphs, concise descriptions, and overall style. For an EE textbook it's conspicuously devoid of high-end math.

There is no doubt it's dense, but still very readable.

More reviews:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/052...kstorenow57-20

Personally, what I would like in addition is a book that would parallel The Art of Electronics that helps relate it all to the audio world.

I should note that I've only read through chapter 2.

I agree that tangents's site is where to start.

More stuff:
http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_1/index.html
http://sound.westhost.com/articles.htm
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/dB.html#definition
http://www.mikroelektronika.co.yu/en...oks/keu/00.htm

 

[Garbz]

Did either of you read the poster's question? The Art of Electronics however fantastic it may be has zip on tube theory, and will only get regal half way there. Yes it'll explain a powersupply and basic electronics theory but with any luck so will the first 2 chapters of any tube based book too

My advice is wait for someone to chime in with a book on tubes (i know none), and borrow the Art of electronics from the library, read the first two chapters, and send it back

 

[AtomBoy]

Pete Millett has scanned and posted a bunch of great old books here:

http://www.pmillett.com/technical_books_online.htm

I got a lot out of 'Basic Theory and Applications of Electron Tubes'.

The rest of Pete's site is a goldmine as well.

There's also some good theory info here:

http://www.tubecad.com/index.htm but not as introductory.

 

[ATAT]

Also, op amps for everyone.. by TI is a great one.. should be available online for free

for tubes.. i have found that the Navy manual .. i think called Basic Electronics, is a good intro.

 

[Samgotit]

More stuff from tangent's site. It includes the Navy Electrical Engineering Training Series.

http://tangentsoft.net/elec/reviews/free.html

 

[dsavitsk]

The single best source for understanding the basics of electron tubes is the NEETS Manual. Here it is in convenient PDF form.

http://www.phy.davidson.edu/instrume...20Supplies.pdf

and an online version

http://www.tpub.com/content/neets/14178/

There is also a whole thread on tube learning for newbies at Diyaudio: http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showt...threadid=38278

And if you want to design a high voltage power supply, you will want Duncan Amps free power supply designer: http://www.duncanamps.com/psud2/index.html



If you want to built a hybrid, then you'll need a solid state education as well, and as everyone else has mentioned, the art of electronics is the default recommendation.

-d