Schematics, Best place to find?

[garcho]

Schematics are like road maps. They have direction and routing, but aren't totally simple, linear things like those old pencil mazes on the back of your breakfast cereal box. Just like maps show major cities that are connected by a mess of roads, highways and railroads, schematics have major components (ICs, transistors) connected by a mess of conductors (wire), resistors, and capacitors. When you look at a schematic, try to determine what's a city and what's a highway. Don't get bogged down by component values, style (infinite ways to draw the same schematic), nationality/era (component symbols and value numbering styles can change). Don't let the myriad ways to show 'ground' or 'earth' or off-board wiring fool you. When you get used to that, you'll be doing what Jon is talking about, and most schematics will start to make sense, even if you don't know the specifics. Also, good ol' text books help. You can build a million Mad Bean boards and never learn a thing about electronics outside of soldering, and shopping for parts

Try searching for "from schematic to breadboard".

[midwayfair]

Try searching for "from schematic to breadboard".

Also has a cheat sheet for schematic symbols!
http://www.beavisaudio.com/techpages/SchematicToReality/