[sdiy] Prototyping breadboard?

[Scott Gravenhorst]

"powered"?  I assume this just means that the solderless breadboard
has a power supply.  I use this sort of thing.  Mine is homemade,
the chunks of socket assemblies are screwed onto a metal chassis
and I built +/-15v and +5v power supplies (1 amp each) into it,
very much like the commercial ones you can buy.  The power supplies
have binding posts, I wire from the binding posts to the SBB.  I
use telephone wire, whatever guage that is.

My experience has been very good.  I've never had something fail to
work because of "bad connections".  I've had things fail due to my
own poor design or wiring errors, but never anything I could blame
on the SBB.

Your milage may vary greatly.  I'm quite sure that someone or a few
here will curse the day they were ever invented.

They aren't for everything.  I wouldn't bother trying a sample and
hold on SBB for example (at least not without expecting problems).
 I wouldn't try high frequency RF experiments on them either.

I use mine for design proof of concept testing.  If I can make a
design work on SBB, I can make it work on stripboard.

This has been _my_ experience.  I like them, I recommend them for
tinkering and trying new ideas.


Cole Groff <chonald at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Do any of you guys recommend a solderless powered prototyping
>breadboard out there?
>
>One that I would be able to use to test module schematics that are
>online at the DIY websites?
>
>This sounds like it would be a lot of fun.
>
>Cole
>

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