How to Read a Schematic

How to read a schematic, follow electronics circuit drawings to make actual circuits from them. This starts with the schematic for a very simple circuit with just some batteries, resistor, switch and an LED. Then it talks about Earth ground and chassis ground. Finally it moves on to a crystal radio amplifier schematic and adds a diode, potentiometer and capacitors.
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At what school did you complete your Electrical engineering program?

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[@viczog]

I like that you put the real life scenario with the schematic side by side. Very helpful. Thank you!

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[@firoxlion]

A little comment on the resistor values: When I started first building of schematics, notations like "4K7" or "6k8" confused me a lot, and took me some research to understand. As it turns out, the little dot (or comma) in 4.7kOhm easily gets lost when you don't write that neat, thus resulting in someone using a 47k resitor instead.
To prevent that, they choose to place the 'extra' symbol (kilo, mega, etc.) between the full and decimal numbers. So 4.7kOhm becomes 4k7, 6.8kOhm becomes 6K8 and so on.

[@RimstarOrg]

Thanks, I'll try to remember that if I put together a webpage on reading schematics.

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Wow
Really helpful bro

[@Davidthestratman7]

Thank you for that

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Thank you very much! I am glad people as yourself share your experience that you obviously spent your time studying on this particular subject! You are a very kind person.
Thanks again! Gary Bounds, mechanic for 50 years.

[@DanDanNode]

pleasent voice, natural teacher. thanks for the knowledge.

[@dkerris]

I've forgotten all the stuff I used to know, from 30 years ago, when I took high school electronics for 2 years.
Thanks for these videos. I like having those old memories prodded to the front of my brain.

[@vivarc2]

About to start a electrical technician job and haven't looked at a schematic in 11 years. Thank you for helping knock some of the rust off. The video is to the point and a very good refresher.

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Helpful, to the point and friendly. You win the “how to make a TH-cam video” award brother! Thank you!!

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I love it when a plan comes together.
There's nothing better than when a person knows something & can explain it & make it simple for a beginner to learn.
Even rocket science can be broken down & explained.

[@ClausenLT]

Excellent...I have a high end amplifier I'm wanting to fix myself. I've already replaced the power supply capacitors and all the relays but I've reached the end of my knowledge and understanding. This helped a ton, and now I feel like I can actually find enough information and learn how to fix it. I found a schematic for $6 online, now I have a much better idea what I'm looking at. I've built a few crossovers for speaker kits, so I had a basic understanding, but this short video cleared up a lot of questions I already had.

[@discoverkollywood]

I literally know nothing about circuits, and this made total sense to me. Thank you so much!

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I really appreciate the way you explain things. Thanks for what you do.

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when i first got into electronics they looked so complicated but after this video my brain is already tuned

[@kruvik]

It was amazing how straight to the point it was. Thanks!

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I’m a visual learner. Thank you for making these videos!

[@con2ward]

The visuals in this video are an excellent support to the words being spoken.

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Thank you for simplifying it and giving us a website to look at! People on TH-cam are the only reason I know stuff about knowing stuff. ((:

[@SonicDadDotCom]

Very well done Steve! Entertaining and educational. Now I'm ready for part two :)
-Ritchie

[@RimstarOrg]

Thanks Ritchie! Part two? ... Good idea!

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This is a great tutorial. Also good for refreshing ones memory.

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Well done. Thank you for your efforts!

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Loved your elicit explanation Sir !

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I saw a symbol i didnt recognize on my state Journeyman exam. This was informative as I believe I see that symbol in this video.
greatly appreciate it Sir!

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thank you. very informative and easy to understand.

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[@denniscowdrick1255]

Great job for reading these diagrams - thanks

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fuuuuuuuuuuuck yeahhhhh, finally somebody knowledgeable enough to go back to the fundamentals. Its like cooking metaphorically speaking, once you understand the platform, and develop a baseline, building from that comes easily. Trying to remember parts over and over become redundant in never convincing the circuit simplicity!
Thank you so much! means a lot, should have millions of views, should be taught in schools, goddam!!! :D

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[@samsofflinern]

was having trouble readin a schematic for a mock up this vid helped a lot thanks !

[@rahulmenon12]

Finally, someone who knows exactly what he is doing. Thanks a lot sir!

[@marcematt2214]

Thank you sir, for the video, I know electrical but I'm can't understand schematics, so to me the way you explain it's great you simplified way low & that helped me

[@fernando3061]

That was fantastic, Im going to watch this a few more times and then check out your site. The key was you using the simplest possible example, battery pack, resistor, switch, led.

[@fimbles1015]

Thank you. Great refresher guide for me:)

[@SecTechie]

Interesting and great job. This is like a refresher course in electronics before I became a PC tech.
Can you explain flyback transformers? Thanks again.

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thank you for the video l was a radio ham in the 80s but now retired and disabled l am finding my back into making small project just made two FM radios fro kits and they work well. All the best from Allan in stoke on Trent UK

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u ve actualy explained to me how these
ground symbols connect
thx so much

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Thank you for getting straight to the point and not making us sit through a 2 minute intro 🙂

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Well worded, perfect tempo.

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Man this is more useful than my teacher's 50mins lecture getting us more cofused everytime
Thanks alot :)

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Thank you for this, it will help me immensely in my new (still training for-) position

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I truly appreciate this video I’m a Student in aviation/avionics and this was so confusing to me and in minutes I got it 🤟🏽💯

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thank you .
great intro.

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Easy to get and quick! Good for beginners because it's not scaring :)

[@monroe9913]

Thank you for the help!!

[@legpetruchka2124]

Merci pour votre vidéo et votre cours. Il est très utile pour les débutants comme moi quoi rêvent de pouvoir lire les circuits. Encore merci

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I just started getting into modding gameboys and wanted to learn how it all works down to the board. Great info!

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Thank you that was a helpful video

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What a wonderful video!

[@crushed0skull]

I love all the videos you do, especially the basic tutorials you make, can you make a tutorial on how to understand the schematics, i.e what each elements function in a particular schematic is and how it changes the current flowing throught it and what happens next. I hope you understand what i mean :)

[@RimstarOrg]

Yup, I know exactly what you mean. It's a very useful exercise. I do that in my "How a Joule Thief Works" video.

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I'm glad to hear it helped, and good luck!

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This helps, better than my engineering teacher. Basically I gotta look for the circles.

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I've been waiting for a video like thus

[@RimstarOrg]

Cool. Thanks for letting me know. I was a little unsure how much interest there would be.

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Thanks! Thanks for being a good student!

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