Electronic Systems Maintenance Handbook, Second Edition (Electronics Handbook Series)

The days of troubleshooting a piece of gear armed only with a scope, voltmeter, and a general idea of how the hardware works are gone forever. As technology continues to drive equipment design forward, maintenance difficulties will continue to increase, and those responsible for maintaining this equipment will continue to struggle to keep up. The Electronic Systems Maintenance Handbook, Second Edition establishes a foundation for servicing, operating, and optimizing audio, video, computer, and RF systems. Beginning with an overview of reliability principles and properties, a team of top experts describes the steps essential to ensuring high reliability and minimum downtime. They examine heat management issues, grounding systems, and all aspects of system test and measurement. They even explore disaster planning and provide guidelines for keeping a facility running under extreme circumstances. Today more than ever, the reliability of a system can have a direct and immediate impact on the profitability of an operation. Advocating a carefully planned, systematic maintenance program, the richly illustrated Electronic Systems Maintenance Handbook helps engineers and technicians meet the challenges inherent in modern electronic equipment and ensure top quality performance from each piece of hardware. Annotation This resource gives information on servicing, operating, and optimizing audio, video, computer, and RF systems. The book begins with an overview of reliability principles and properties, then covers heat management issues, grounding systems, and all aspects of system test and measurement. It examines device and plant reliability and offers practical guidelines for reducing downtime, and provides information on disaster planning and keeping a facility running under extreme circumstances. Specific chapters cover areas including software reliability, resistors and resistive materials, inductors and magnetic properties, semiconductor failure models, network communication, audio, video, and RF distortion mechanisms and analysis, and systems engineering concepts. Whitaker is a fellow of the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) and an SBE-certified Professional Broadcast Technician. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) The approach to probability and statistics used in this chapter is the pragmatic one that probability and statistics are methods of operating in the presence of incomplete knowledge.