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I can highly recommend the MIT 6.622 Power Electronics course recently released on OCW: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP62UTc77mJoubhDELSC8lfR0 h

I can highly recommend the MIT 6.622 Power Electronics course recently released on OCW: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP62UTc77mJoubhDELSC8lfR0 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP62UTc77mJoubhDE... https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-622-power-electronics-spring-2023/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-622-power-electronics-spring-2... Prof. David Perreault is excellent. While the course gets into pretty advanced topics that simply won't matter unless you are designing multi-kW systems, it covers all the fundamentals and builds understanding from ground up so you will know what makes sense to use and when.

kleiba 2y ago
Thank you! I was just going to ask about recommended resources for getting into electronics. I've never been able to find anything that I personally found useful - often times, introductury courses are too basic and slow to keep me focused, or they lack exercises or are too theoretical, etc. There are many hobbyists who have learned all that stuff and can design and implement their own circuits (say, audiophiles or model train enthusiasts), so obviously they have all been able to get there. But I have never managed to learn anything about electronics, although I would really like to.
- progbits 2y ago
  Yeah it can be hard. As a self-taught hobbyist I've found a mix of university courses (not whole curriculum, just pick and choose and don't feel bad fast-forwarding over some of the math theory), books (art of electronics, practical electronics for inventors), and high quality youtube channels (eevblog, phil's lab, robert feranec, microtype engineering) to be a good way to learn. Also eevblog forums are great. I don't post much but just reading through the discussions you get a lot. My greatest annoyance is the flood of very low quality Arduino tutorials everywhere that polute the search results. Not to be ungrateful, Arduino got me into the hobby, but if you just learned about resistors last week the world doesn't need your blogpost on how to connect it to a breadboard.
  - Max-q 2y ago
    You probably know about this already, buy in case you missed it: The Arts of Electronics is a wonderful book on electronics, starting from zero, ending up at bachelor level EE. I was introduced to the second edition (silver) when I attended college in the late 90s, and have later upgraded to the third edition (gold). It also has a companion book with more exercises and lab experiments. For everyone that wants to learn EE, it is highly recommend. Just beware: there are fake copies for sale on Amazon, so be sure you get a genuine copy.
- tzs 2y ago
  The MITx version of MIT's 6.002, "Circuits and Electronics", is excellent. Its on MIT's OpenCourseWare [1], and on EdX where a session is starting today [2]. The EdX is divided into three parts, and that is part 1. Here are parts 2 [3] and 3 [4]. Caveat: when I took it at EdX the textbook was available online for free during the course, and it is an excellent textbook that I found very useful. That was back when all the MOOC platforms weren't too worried about monetization. Now the textbook is only free online for people enrolled in the "verified certificate track" of the course, which is $189. The book is $64.97 for the paperback or DRM-free PDF [5]. I'm not sure how well the course works without the book. [1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-002-circuits-and-electronics-spring-2007/pages/syllabus/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-002-circuits-and-electronics-s... [2] https://www.edx.org/learn/circuits/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-circuits-and-electronics-1-basic-circuit-analysis https://www.edx.org/learn/circuits/massachusetts-institute-o... [3] https://www.edx.org/learn/circuits/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-circuits-and-electronics-2-amplification-speed-and-delay https://www.edx.org/learn/circuits/massachusetts-institute-o... [4] https://www.edx.org/learn/electronics/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-circuits-and-electronics-3-applications-2 https://www.edx.org/learn/electronics/massachusetts-institut... [5] https://shop.elsevier.com/books/foundations-of-analog-and-digital-electronic-circuits/agarwal/978-0-08-050681-4 https://shop.elsevier.com/books/foundations-of-analog-and-di...
  - creeble 2y ago
    Most of the course in link[1] is available on YouTube as well.
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tecleandor 2y ago
What's the starting level? My electronics knowledge is very basic and I'd like to start "designing" some simple power circuits. I know the basics of resistors, diodes, capacitors, transistors... And I could explain the most simple classic power supply: transformer, full wave rectification, capacitors and so on. I've built basic digital circuits (LDO + arduino/ESP + leds and stuff) and know some basic physics. I'm good soldering, though :D
- EricE 2y ago
  Checkout bigclivedotcom on youtube - he reverse engineers circuits all the time in entertaining and accessible ways; a great way to learn through practical applications.
  - bityard 2y ago
    Big Clive is is one of my favorite people but I feel like it would be pretty frustrating (and possibly even dangerous) to try to learn electronics from weatching random chinesium product teardowns.
    - tecleandor 2y ago
      Ha! It's true Big Clive is always testing dangerous things. I sometimes watch it when YouTube recommends it, and I take it as a lesson of things I shouldn't do. Also, I think it might help to notice badly engineering things in cheap (or not that cheap) products. And I like his hand-drawn diagrams.
- detourdog 2y ago
  MIT I think always starts from first principals. If one can understand and not do math that is generally enough. I have taken many MIT OCW classes and I’m completely uneducated.
nraynaud 2y ago
funny, it got recently suggested to me too. I really feel like youtube is not individualizing the recommendations.

kleiba 2y ago

Thank you! I was just going to ask about recommended resources for getting into electronics. I've never been able to find anything that I personally found useful - often times, introductury courses are too basic and slow to keep me focused, or they lack exercises or are too theoretical, etc. There are many hobbyists who have learned all that stuff and can design and implement their own circuits (say, audiophiles or model train enthusiasts), so obviously they have all been able to get there. But I have never managed to learn anything about electronics, although I would really like to.

progbits 2y ago
Yeah it can be hard. As a self-taught hobbyist I've found a mix of university courses (not whole curriculum, just pick and choose and don't feel bad fast-forwarding over some of the math theory), books (art of electronics, practical electronics for inventors), and high quality youtube channels (eevblog, phil's lab, robert feranec, microtype engineering) to be a good way to learn. Also eevblog forums are great. I don't post much but just reading through the discussions you get a lot. My greatest annoyance is the flood of very low quality Arduino tutorials everywhere that polute the search results. Not to be ungrateful, Arduino got me into the hobby, but if you just learned about resistors last week the world doesn't need your blogpost on how to connect it to a breadboard.
- Max-q 2y ago
  You probably know about this already, buy in case you missed it: The Arts of Electronics is a wonderful book on electronics, starting from zero, ending up at bachelor level EE. I was introduced to the second edition (silver) when I attended college in the late 90s, and have later upgraded to the third edition (gold). It also has a companion book with more exercises and lab experiments. For everyone that wants to learn EE, it is highly recommend. Just beware: there are fake copies for sale on Amazon, so be sure you get a genuine copy.
tzs 2y ago
The MITx version of MIT's 6.002, "Circuits and Electronics", is excellent. Its on MIT's OpenCourseWare [1], and on EdX where a session is starting today [2]. The EdX is divided into three parts, and that is part 1. Here are parts 2 [3] and 3 [4]. Caveat: when I took it at EdX the textbook was available online for free during the course, and it is an excellent textbook that I found very useful. That was back when all the MOOC platforms weren't too worried about monetization. Now the textbook is only free online for people enrolled in the "verified certificate track" of the course, which is $189. The book is $64.97 for the paperback or DRM-free PDF [5]. I'm not sure how well the course works without the book. [1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-002-circuits-and-electronics-spring-2007/pages/syllabus/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-002-circuits-and-electronics-s... [2] https://www.edx.org/learn/circuits/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-circuits-and-electronics-1-basic-circuit-analysis https://www.edx.org/learn/circuits/massachusetts-institute-o... [3] https://www.edx.org/learn/circuits/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-circuits-and-electronics-2-amplification-speed-and-delay https://www.edx.org/learn/circuits/massachusetts-institute-o... [4] https://www.edx.org/learn/electronics/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-circuits-and-electronics-3-applications-2 https://www.edx.org/learn/electronics/massachusetts-institut... [5] https://shop.elsevier.com/books/foundations-of-analog-and-digital-electronic-circuits/agarwal/978-0-08-050681-4 https://shop.elsevier.com/books/foundations-of-analog-and-di...
- creeble 2y ago
  Most of the course in link[1] is available on YouTube as well.

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tecleandor 2y ago

What's the starting level? My electronics knowledge is very basic and I'd like to start "designing" some simple power circuits. I know the basics of resistors, diodes, capacitors, transistors... And I could explain the most simple classic power supply: transformer, full wave rectification, capacitors and so on. I've built basic digital circuits (LDO + arduino/ESP + leds and stuff) and know some basic physics. I'm good soldering, though :D

EricE 2y ago
Checkout bigclivedotcom on youtube - he reverse engineers circuits all the time in entertaining and accessible ways; a great way to learn through practical applications.
- bityard 2y ago
  Big Clive is is one of my favorite people but I feel like it would be pretty frustrating (and possibly even dangerous) to try to learn electronics from weatching random chinesium product teardowns.
  - tecleandor 2y ago
    Ha! It's true Big Clive is always testing dangerous things. I sometimes watch it when YouTube recommends it, and I take it as a lesson of things I shouldn't do. Also, I think it might help to notice badly engineering things in cheap (or not that cheap) products. And I like his hand-drawn diagrams.
detourdog 2y ago
MIT I think always starts from first principals. If one can understand and not do math that is generally enough. I have taken many MIT OCW classes and I’m completely uneducated.

nraynaud 2y ago

funny, it got recently suggested to me too. I really feel like youtube is not individualizing the recommendations.