Reading schematics: Skill or Experience?

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So how do I properly learn to read these schematic diagrams? Is there any online resources i can learn from? Or does it just come from experience of reading couple hundred schematics? Are they meant to only be understood by the people who make them? The goal here for me is to just look at a schematic diagram and instantly know whats going on.

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Re: Reading schematics: Skill or Experience?

You need t know what the symbols are first, then you need to learn to understand what each component are for and its function. I.E. Resistor, capacitor, ect.. Then learn to find out how they are used. So basically learn the basic first before trying to analyze how the circuits work.
There are many free info on the web, such as http://101science.com/Radio.htm
or just Google search. By the way, there is no stop learning, you will always learn something everyday by experience, or from other people experience.

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Re: Reading schematics: Skill or Experience?

By the way, there is no stop learning, you will always learn something everyday by experience, or from other people experience.

Agreed.

Thanks for the link. It seemed reasonable that I have to learn the basics first but i guess i just asked because i wanted an easy way out.

Guess my long journey down the road of electronics starts here.