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i have reviewed some subjects from uni course in electrical engineering, after some years of completing, what i found was that i easily understand digital, software, microprocessor, instrumentation and fairly understood control engineering.

But i still really struggle with anologue electronics, but i now wish to understand better from bottom up, and i have been using proteus to simulate circuits and try design circuits with some succes and some failures. i want to get simple lab together and do some actual experiments to better understand how circuits work and how individual component effect circuits. i do sometimes find proteus very good, but unsure. i wish to be able to look at circuit and have some intuition how that circuit works instead just knowing the maths and analtytical theaory behind the design.

so my questions are.

does anyone have any experceince of this and how did they go about it.
were should i start with learning analogue elctronics what subjects are most relevant for this current date.


also another question seperate to this i have reviewed common emitter ampifiler design and feel i have better understanding just in theory, but looking at one tutorial when come to the end of the subject it suggested that common emitter is hard to design in that when built it seldom works as you wish, also
the suggestion was that universities colleges spend alot time on this subject as so student can better understand how transistor works, and that these ampilfers are hardly used in designs, and that ampilfers are rarely designed with discerete components, and that op amp was mainly used now in indrustry and comercail electronics, just wondering how true this is.
 

hi, i think the best way to learn about this stuff is by gaining lots of experience, so your idea of getting a simple lab and conducting experiments is a good one. i'm not really good at analog yet, but i learned a lot of basic stuff by building my own guitar effects (i learned about op amp configs, transistor circuits, filters, design considerations, etc..). after building my first guitar effect, i was motivated to try out a lot of stuff, moving from simple distortion circuits to flangers, etc.. i guess experimenting and browsing through a lot of schematics i found through the internet and trying to figure out how the circuits worked exposed me to a lot of stuff. also, since i was able to use the circuits i built for my guitar, i was able to maintain my interest in electronics and wanted to keep learning more and building.
 

Here is a website containing myriad circuits that use transistors.

http://www.4qdtec.com/

(The areas designated 'public' are free.)

I hope the fellow wouldn't mind if I copy and paste this paragraph telling his philosophy.

"Some readers may think I don't like ICs. Not true: it's horses for courses. However it is very often simpler to use three or four transistors than to find that special IC. Many's the time I have spent days looking for an IC to do what I require, only to solve the problem in a few hours when I started thinking discrete. Also - if you use discretes you get a much better understanding of electronics than by using an IC - which to a lot of users may as well be a black box full of magic spells!"

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'200 Transistor Circuits'

http://talkingelectronics.com/projects/200TrCcts/200TrCcts.html

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Lots of applications require power transistors/mosfets.
 
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