Troubleshooting Analog Circuits by Robert A. Pease

[SgtRock]

Greetings EEVBees:

--A friend of mine just gave me a beat up dumpster copy of "Troubleshooting Analog Circuits" by Robert A. Pease, August 22, 1940 – June 18, 2011, MHRIP. Bob Pease died in a car wreck returning from the funeral of his long time friend, and fellow Electronics Pioneer Jim Williams, who died the week before. Some friends of mine were helped with a deep black sticky wicket, back in the old days by Mr. Pease & Company. This title has wide applicability, especially for that analog circuit so often found nestled with digital circuits, the SMPS. While this book is somewhat beyond my level of competence, I was able to learn something from almost every chapter, and it held my interest. I will never again so blithely trust passive components. I highly recommend this book for real design engineers as well as lesser mortals. Much of the advice in the book is applicable for fixing Computers, TVs and whathaveyou. It is an old title but still very useful, I feel. I would welcome comments by those of you who have also read this book, or know something about Mr. Pease. See Amazon link for an economical copy of the book below, and a link to the RAP Wiki page.

http://www.amazon.com/Troubleshooting-Analog-Circuits-Design-Engineers/dp/0750694998
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Pease

"My favorite programming language is solder"
Robert Allen Pease 1940 - 2011

Best Regards
Clear Ether

[FenderBender]

I've watched many of the National videos that he was a part of. Very bright and energetic man.

One of my favorite pictures of all time:

[free_electron]

My fa picture of bob is the one on the front of the analog troubleshooting book. No telling where the beards stops and the breadboard begins. He's the inventor of the in-beard breadboard.

I met him a few times at the De Anza  college swapmeet. He sold his books out of his rusty old beatly. I bought the a bunch of em. He signed them . I got pictures of him in front of his beetle somewhere..


Here ya go:

[bradleytron]

Ohh yes, that's a great book.. was on the topic about Robert A.  Pease some time ago..

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/what-books-are-burning-your-retina-from-your-kindle/msg80116/#msg80116

    He wrote the book: How to Drive Into Accidents ... and How Not To (1998) Pease Pub ISBN 978-0965564816 — An idiosyncratic, entertaining, and insightful book on safe driving techniques, written for novices and experienced drivers alike..

    The bitter irony was that Pease was killed in the crash of his 1969 Volkswagen Beetle, on June 18, 201

Erik

Robert's presentations were amazing as well! Quite a character, he is missed.

[free_electron]

    The bitter irony was that Pease was killed in the crash of his 1969 Volkswagen Beetle, on June 18, 201

A bot of clarification on that:

Bob was returning from a memorial service held for Jim Williams at the mountain view winery. The road from the venue down to the main road is steep and winding.
Speculation is he suffered a stroke or heartattack while driving down. The car went off the road and hit a tree. Bob was either killed on impact or he was dead before impact.
There was barely a few minutes between him leaving and someone finding him.

[w2aew]

Agreed on all counts.  Great book, from a true analog wizard. I loved his column "Pease Porridge" that would appear in Electronic Design (US trade mag).  I had the pleasure of meeting him at a seminar he spoke at.  Great guy, and is definitely missed.

[PA4TIM]

I love that book, bought it last year in England, through the Abe books site, they still print it on order. Was around 30 euro including shipping. Cheaper as most used verions advertised on the same site.
I love the way it was written.
I learned a lot from this book that helped me troubleshooting. And I learned a lot about measurements and design from the things Jim Williams wrote. ( I'm a huge Williams fan) I'm not that long in electronics and I just "discovered" all those great app notes from Williams a few months for his death. I was a sort of rolemodel for me, analog design, autodidact, loved repairing and measuring and especially Tek scopes and it turned out he builded allmost al his circuits like I do from the begin (dead bug)
To bad both are noth among us anymore.