Re: Looking for online "basics" resources...

[Matt Ion <soundy106@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim wrote:
> Matt Ion wrote:
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>>Yeah, that's a little extreme... she's not looking to become an alarm tech, she
>>needs a better understanding of the basics to get her through her insurance course.
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> I think she'd be better off, going to the library and getting a book on
> basic alarm systems. I'd guess, now with the internet the ultimate
> source of everything you ever wanted to know about everything, that
> some of the books would be outdated. But, as you said, she doesn't need
> to know as much as a tech. There used to be some pretty basic books out
> there on alarm systems she could probably breeze through in a few
> nights of reading.

Well, I know I've seen some online electronics tutorials that had nifty
animated-current-flow and animated-switch-and-relay-action graphics and what
not, and figured that would help her more understand what's going on.

Just can't remember any of those sites, or find them again in a number of
searches (damn Google's advertising-favored sorting, most of the top hits are
book ads).