Errata

Encyclopedia of Electronic Components Volume 3

Errata for Encyclopedia of Electronic Components Volume 3

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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.

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Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Printed Page 132
2nd column, 1st paragraph

In the text of the paragraph titled 'Photoresistors in Optical Isolators', 'photoresistor' is used twice in a context that indicates a different component should be in one of the cases:

...'an optocoupler, contains an LED opposite to a photoresistor'...

and

...'Vactrol is a similar component, *except* that the LED is placed opposite to a photoresistor'...

Referencing Volume 2, I believe the optocoupler would more likely be opposite to a phototransistor and is probably the component intended in the first case.

 Darrel Dronet  Nov 11, 2020 
Printed Page 142
1st column, 4th paragraph

An optocoupler or solid-state relay (described in Volume 1).

I believe this should reference Volume 2, where an optocoupler has its own chapter.

 Darrel Dronet  Nov 11, 2020 
Printed Page 144
1st column, 5th paragraph

At the end of the paragraph titled 'Binning':

...LED area lighting, described in Volume 1.)

I believe this should reference Volume 2, where LED area lighting has its own chapter.

 Darrel Dronet  Nov 11, 2020 
Printed Page 145
1st column, 4th paragraph

The formula (note the 'U'):

U = R * I(sub p)

should almost certainly by convention be (note the 'V'):

V = R * I(sub p)

 Darrel Dronet  Nov 11, 2020 
Printed Page 145
2nd column, 2nd paragraph

This is just a minor formatting note.

The formula listed (note the '~MAX~'):

R = V / I~MAX~

'~MAX~' was almost certainly a formatting code that did not properly get converted to subscript MAX.

 Darrel Dronet  Nov 11, 2020 
Printed Page 145
1st column, 4th paragraph

I submitted a previous errata that I thought the use of 'U' in 'U = R * I(sub p)' was a typo, with 'V' being the conventional symbol for voltage.

On page 200, 2nd column, 5th paragraph, 'U' is defined as: 'U is the voltage drop' and the formula that immediately follows uses 'U' as well: 'I = U / R'.

I stand corrected.

 Darrel Dronet  Nov 16, 2020 
Printed Page 154
2nd column, 4th paragraph

'thermocuples' should be thermocouples.

 Darrel Dronet  Nov 13, 2020 
Printed Page 155
2nd column, 1st paragraph

'microntroller' should be microcontroller.

 Darrel Dronet  Nov 13, 2020 
Printed Page 165
2nd column, 1st paragraph

'photocouple' should be thermocouple

 Darrel Dronet  Nov 13, 2020 
Printed Page 174
2nd column, 6th paragraph

I'm pretty sure that:

...a reference resistance of 100.00 degrees...

should be

...a reference resistance of 100 ohms...

 Darrel Dronet  Nov 13, 2020