Electrical tutorial web site?

concretelackey · February 18, 2008, 8:18pm

I’m fairly confident with household 110V wiring for lighting and receptacles but almost totally lost when electrical becomes electronics. Is there a fairly well explained web site that explains in laymans terms how resistors/capacitors/etc function so that I can become more confident/competent with these components?

Thanks

reklein · February 18, 2008, 8:45pm

Yeah,there Mr. Lackey. Look up DCC WIKI and you shall be gratified. Sorry I haven’t figured out how to make stuff clickable yet. I had to look it up on my favorites list.

concretelackey · February 18, 2008, 9:11pm

Thanks for the response…although I’ve found WIKI to be rather…consistantly inconsistant with accuracy when dealing with topics of which I am competent with.

The searches I’ve done so far have resulted in sites that are very basic or are rocket science material…I’ll keep looking though.

Thanks again…

PHARMD98233 · February 18, 2008, 9:34pm

Take a look at this and see if it meets your need. The Brits do a lot of this type of basic electronic stuff

www.merg.org.uk/led/index.htm

tstage · February 18, 2008, 9:58pm

Ken,

Try this site: Basic Electricity 101

Dave Loman put this site together a couple of years ago, with the input (or feedback) of a few folks here on the forum. Hopefully this will help answer some of your questions. I found the link again and have it bookmarked.

Tom