Books,Videos, and Reference Materials

[Andrew]

I am a long time guitar builder who wants to have a go at a Two Stroke and learn to work on amps to expand my repair business. I am embarrassingly electronically deficient. I have the G. Weber compilation DVD and have read Hunter’s book. Which reference materials do you folks rely on?

[beelzebum]

heres a good general reference, these are the Navy Electrical Engineering Training Series Modules or (NEETS Mods).

http://www.tpub.com/neets/

Neets Mod 6, INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC EMISSION, TUBES, AND POWER SUPPLIES
Neets Mod 8, INTRODUCTION TO AMPLIFIERS
These will probably be the most helpfull for you. Also for tube data check out

http://tdsl.duncanamps.com/tubesearch.php

[Robin]

DH’s book is the best I found for understanding tube amps without prior electronics experience Weber’s books are all helpful as they offer
practical solutions to tube amp design, building and repair. Aspen Pittman’s book is also good, as are others. I would suggest that you consider the 2Stroke as a first step, there are several here on the TAN site that will help you along the way with it if you have questions or run into trouble. You could build a kit or two first to build confidence but really, with DH’s circuit walk-through in the book, you will learn more by sourcing the parts and building the 2Stroke (IMO).
Good luck

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