[sdiy] Breadboards

[Rykhaard D.A.M.I.A.N.]

Very recent experience, from my engineer-wanna-be levels of knowledge. ;)

3 or 4 days ago, after about 23 years of on / off use of my Radio Shack
breadboard (standard 6" long size), I finally destroyed it, out of
frustration:
- non-conductive contacts, was the main one
- unable to push pins into holes
- poor conductivity
were the main problems.

In 23 years, such a divice has a greater chance of coming into environments
with higher humidity as it had quite often, over the years; especially the
last 3 or 4 years.

Having 2 test circuits barely working at all, without moving a chip back and
forth in it's position, I gave up in frustration, removing all of the parts
and wires and using a screwdriver to rip portions of the board off of the
metal mounting base.
Lo'n'behold, starting back at me are huge amounts of the blue'ish corrosion
of copper colour, on a large # of pin contacts. :P
I haven't thrown the breadboard out yet.  Just thinking of it now - I'm
going to take a pic or 2 of it, and post it to my webpage, as a partial
warning of one thing that can happen to it. :(

Thankfully - I still have another, that's only about 10 years old, and still
seems to be working fine. :)

They're great for testing ideas quickly, by just plopping parts in and
powering it all up. :)  I've done a fair amount of design over the years
with them, and I'll continue to use them. :)

--
Take care,
Warmth and Peace,
Ryk

P.S.  Happy New Year everyone. :D

http://deathlehem.bravehost.com/damian.html - D.A.M.I.A.N.;s webpage - Dec
3005 update
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