Mark Rumreich

I’ve always been interested in how things work. When I was a kid, people would give me their broken stuff and I’d take it apart to see what was inside. I was especially fascinated by electronics. How could all those tiny parts with wires sticking out of them make a radio or TV? I yearned to understand. It wasn’t until studying electrical engineering that the mysteries really started to be revealed. Following my sophomore year at Purdue, RCA offered me a summer engineering internship at their Indianapolis headquarters. This is where RCA televisions were designed. Little did I know that this would be the start of more than 25-years of design work with them. It quickly became clear that designing circuits for consumer electronics required a lot more expertise than what was taught in the engineering classroom. Fortunately, the RCA technical culture was very nurturing and experienced engineers were eager to share their knowledge with a beginner. Designing products to be reliable was a business necessity and required an intimate understanding of why circuits fail. Once the word is out that you can fix things, there’s no shortage of repair projects that come your way. This is how it worked for me, and I’ve had the opportunity to fix an incredible number and variety of devices, I never say no. Why did I write the Electronics Repair Cookbook? I read the top-selling books on electronics repair and thought I could do better for the reader. I believe that basic electronics repairs are within reach of most people given the right information and presented in the right way. The material needs to start from scratch then advance to more complex topics. It needs to be up-to-date and complement online information resources like YouTube and iFixit by filling the gaps. And like every cookbook, it needs to be easy to follow, have plenty of photos and a great index. Thank you for considering my book, I wish you many successful repairs! Mark Rumreich __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Mark has worked for more than 25 years in the consumer electronics industry as a designer of analog and digital audio and video systems. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University and holds more than 60 US patents. He has written numerous articles for electronics hobbyist and trade publications and has published papers in the IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. He is the author of The Car Stereo Cookbook: How to Design, Choose, and Install Car Stereo Systems, now in its second edition.