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Battery / DC Source

R = XX 
Resistors
R = XX  R = XX 

R = XX 

Potentiometer
(variable resistance)

Lamp

On-Off Switch (SPST)

2-Way Switch (SPDT)

“Push to close” Switch

“Push to open” Switch

Buzzer

WIRING

wires connection dots coaxial cable

twisted pair shielded twisted pair

 RESISTORS

resistors potentiometers rheostats

varistors fuses impedances

CAPACITORS

capacitors electrolytic feedthrough X2Y

capacitors capacitors capacitors

3-lead 4-lead
capacitors capacitors

3-lead electrolytic
4-lead feedthrough X2Y
iron-core common-mode
INDUCTORS
CAPACITORS
capacitors
inductors capacitors
ferrite beads capacitors capacitors
inductors chokes
INDUCTORS

inductors ferrite beads iron-core common-mode

inductors chokes

TRANSFORMERS

transformers auto-transformer variac Faraday-

shielded
CRYSTALS transformer

crystals

CONNECTORS

male pins female pins

 POWER AND GROUNDS

+XV

+XV
+XV

+XV
supply voltages batteries cells

digital analog chassis

ground ground ground

SWITCHES AND RELAYS

switches normally- normally- break- make-

open closed before- before-
contacts contacts make break
(form A) (form B) contacts contacts
(form C) (form D)

DIODES

diodes zener diodes

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS

NPN PNP NPN PNP

Darlington Darlington

MOSFET'S

N-channel P-channel N-channel

enhancement- enhancement- depletion-
mode mode mode
MOSFET MOSFET MOSFET

THRISTORS

SCR's triacs GTO

JUNCTION FET'S

N-channel
JFET's P-channel
JFET's

MISCELLANOUS
TRANSISTORS

N-channel P-channel PUT unijunction

IGBT IGBT transistor

LOGIC GATES

XOR's
AND's OR' NAND's NOR's
s

line line
driver receiver

inverters buffers Schmitt

triggers
FLIPFLOPS

D Q S Q Q

RQ R Q T Q

D flipflop set-reset toggle

flipflop flipflop

ANALOG COMPONENTS

opamp or Norton
comparator amplifier

MISCELLANEOUS COMPONENTS

motor opto-isolator

SIGNAL SOURCES

DC voltage DC current AC voltage

sources sources sources
 Flip flop

JK Flip Flop
 Inverted Op Amp non-inverted

Unity Gain Integrated Circuit

For VLSI:

Switches:

FETS: