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

["Tommy" <tommy at leesecurity.net>]

Here is a site to start at:  www.cln.org/themes/electronics.html


"Matt Ion" <soundy106@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Jim wrote:
>> Matt Ion wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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 some of the books would be outdated.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).
>