Dear Dennis...

EN-Genius Network's Dennis Feucht answers your design queries in his new Circuit Design Clinic!

December, 2007

 Dear Dennis

EN-Genius Network presents a new, interactive analog design service to readers! Send us your design questions (with relevant data; schematics in JPEG or GIF, please) for some free engineering advice from EN-Genius Network's circuit consultant, Dennis Feucht, on how you might solve a design problem or improve circuit performance. Submissions may be edited for clarity or brevity, and submitters and their email addresses will remain anonymous (unless otherwise indicated). Please send your questions to Dennis here.


Howard W Sams Radio Photofact Service, Vol 4, # 31 - 41
by Dennis L Feucht

by Howard W Sams & Co, Inc, 2924 East Washington Street, Indianapolis 6, Indiana; “B” fast-action binder hardbook; pages: 4.2 inches of them; 1948; priceless

And now for something a little different in electronics book reviews! From half century ago comes a book -- or, more like a manual -- one of a large set that became an electronics institution for decades: the Sams Photofacts.

In the days when radio-TV repair shops were commonplace, electronics repairmen would rely upon the open disclosure of the electronics of consumer devices -- mainly radios, TVs, and phonographs -- from the Howard W Sams company. They published packets of technical information on essentially every consumer electronics radio or television made in America, and for a few dollars, a repair shop could buy a subscription or individual folders to add to a growing collection.

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