Electronic and Electrical Servicing provides a thorough grounding in the electronics and electrical principles required by service engineers servicing home entertainment equipment such as TVs, CD and DVD machines, as well as commercial equipment including PCs.

In the printed book, this new edition covers all the core units of the Level 2 Progression Award in Electrical and Electronics Servicing (Consumer/Commercial Electronics) from City & Guilds (C&G 6958), plus two of the option units. For those students who wish to progress to Level 3, a further set of chapters covering all the core units at this level is available as a free download from the book's companion website or as a print-on-demand book. The book and website material also offer a fully up-to-date course text for the City & Guilds 1687 NVQs at Levels 2 and 3.

The book contains numerous worked examples to help students grasp the principles. Each chapter ends with review questions, for which answers are provided at the end of the book, so that students can check their learning.

Level 2 units covered in the book:
Unit 1 - d.c. technology, components and circuits
Unit 2 - a.c. technology and electronic components
Unit 3 - Electronic devices and testing
Unit 4 - Electronic systems
Unit 5 - Digital electronics
Unit 6 - Radio and television systems technology
Unit 8 - PC technology

Ian Sinclair has been an author of market-leading books for electronic servicing courses for over 20 years, helping many thousands of students through their college course and NVQs into successful careers. Now with a new co-author, John Dunton, the new edition has been brought fully up-to-date to reflect the most recent technical advances and developments within the service engineering industry, in particular with regard to television and PC servicing and technology.

Level 3 units covered in free downloads at http://books.elsevier.com/companions/9780750669887:
Unit 1 - Electronic principles
Unit 2 - Test and measurement
Unit 3 - Analogue electronics
Unit 4 - Digital electronics

About the Author
Ian Sinclair was born in 1932 in Tayport, Fife, and graduated from the University of St. Andrews in 1956. In that year, he joined the English Electric Valve Co. in Chelmsford, Essex, to work on the design of specialised cathode-ray tubes, and later on small transmitting valves and TV transmitting tubes. In 1966, he became an assistant lecturer at Hornchurch Technical College, and in 1967 joined the staff of Braintree College of F.E. as a lecturer. His first book, "Understanding Electronic Components" was published in 1972, and he has been writing ever since, particularly for the novice in Electronics or Computing. The interest in computing arose after seeing a Tandy TRS80 in San Francisco in 1977, and of his 204 published books, about half have been on computing topics, starting with a guide to Microsoft Basic on the TRS80 in 1979. He left teaching in 1984 to concentrate entirely on writing, and has also gained experience in computer typesetting, particularly for mathematical texts. He has recently visited Seattle to see Microsoft at work, and to remind them that he has been using Microsoft products longer than most Microsoft employees can remember. Ian Sinclair is the author of the following Made Simple books: Lotus 1-2-3- (2.4 DOS version) MS-DOS (up to version 6.22) PagePlus for Windows 3.1 Hard drives He is also the author of many other books published under our Newnes imprint.Visit Ian's website at http://website.lineone.net/~ian_sinclair

Reviews

Mike James: 'It seems very well matched to the level 2 progression award. The style of writing is very lucid and the layout is easy on the eye. It is a very broad syllabus which manages to have every element mentioned in the book. There is a lot of material on health and safety which correctly reflects the amount of work required in the units.'

...this text gives a thorough grounding in the electronics and electrical principles required by service engineers. -Poptronics, July 2002

Book Information
ISBN 9780750669887
Author John Dunton
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint Newnes (an imprint of Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd )
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 620g