Bought Troubleshooting Electronic Books

As usual, when we are in any shopping center, i would go straight to bookstore to look up for any new magazines and electronic repairing books while my wife would bring the kids to the children section. I found the bookstore located at the top floor and the name of the bookstore was Kinokuniya bookstore. It's big and the engineering section have more technical books than other major bookstore in KL. After browsing through the book racks, i found two books which are very suitable for beginner and intermediate electronic repairer. The title of the books are Troubleshooting Electronic Equipment by RS Khandpur and Modern Laser Printer Introduction & Troubleshooting. I bought both books and the contents for Troubleshooting Electronic Equipment book are:

Reliability Aspects of Electronic Equipment

Fundamental Troubleshooting Procedures

Multimeters

Tools and Aids for servicing and maintenance

Soldering techniques

Mechanical and Electro-mechanical components

Passive components and their testing

Testing of semiconductor devices

Linear integrated circuits

Troubleshooting digital circuits

Troubleshooting microprocessor-based systems

Rework and repair of surface mount assemblies

Typical examples of troubleshooting

Preventive maintenance and

Maintenance management

While for the Laser Printer book the contents are:

Detailed toner refilling/recharging procedure

Page Description Lnaguages (Pcl & Postscript)

Laser printer parts diagram (Exploded view)

Detailed laser printer troubleshooting

HP laserjet fuser removal/test procedure

Complete working of laser printer

HP laser jet error/service codes

Common faults from workshop

Dot matrix & inkjet printers

Serial/parallel interface

Hp 6L Pro laser printer

Circuit diagram

And Much More...

As mentioned above both books are very suitable for beginner and intermediate repairer and not recommended for the advanced repairer and the Laser printer book was the last copy when i bought it. The reason i bought both books is that i love to read technical books especailly dealing with electronic repair. Even the books are for beginner and intermediate, i do still found some interesting repair techniques and tips that haven't know about. Remember the quote by Benjamin Franklin that i mentioned in the electronic repair course article?

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest". Wow! what a powerful quote by him!

While browsing through the magazine section i noticed there was a new electronic magazine. The magazine name was Electronics For You, it's from india and quite cheap about rm12.00 (about US3.4) per copy. It has a free cd included in the magazine. The contents of the magazine talks about microcontrollers, meters, internet, software (c++), test and measurement, circuit design (ideas) and many more. You can get more information by logging on to their website efymag.com . I bought the magazine and looking forward for next issue. All the best to all of you. Take care.