S.E.X. or Crack2A - which is better for learning and experimenting?

[Deke609]

Thanks Doc. Amazon sells a new reprint, so I should have a copy of it it a day or so; and it's available electronically for free. The miraculous convenience of modern tech! 

I too remember the days of libraries: go the library, search the catalogue index, copy stack number, go to stack location .. only to find that the book you want has been borrowed by someone else. So you speak to a librarian who tells you that it isn't due back for another 2 weeks. So you put your name on a waiting list and a librarian calls you on your home telephone when it is returned.  All of which seemed reasonably convenient at the time!  Hah!

[Deke609]

It should be pretty simple to run a sine wave tone through the preamp and actually see the rectification and smoothing -- which will be cool.

I just realized that what I wrote above about sending a sine waveform through the amp makes no sense. Signal input doesn't get rectified and no signal passes through the PT (other than 60 HZ AC waveforms). I just need to put scope lead A on the pre-diode output and lead b at various points post-diodes.