[sdiy] prototype boarding (help?) and homemade pcbs.

[Scott Gravenhorst]

I agree, I've got several of these and I've NEVER had any trouble with them, period. 
But then, I don't abuse them either.  Abuse would be trying to push huge wire into
them.  I use only single strand telephone wire.  Also, IMHO, it's not wise to build
things that get really hot on them, warm is OK, (to me, "hot" means I can't leave my
finger on the running part for 10 seconds).

Like everything, there's a proper way to use them and an improper way.

There is also manufactured quality to consider.

Seb Francis <seb at burnit.co.uk> wrote:
>Woops, that should have said:
>"Hey, don't *knock* solderless breadboards"
>
>Seb Francis wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> First of all, are you working with a solderable prototyping board 
>>> (otherwise known as "perfboard"), or are you using one of those white 
>>> plastic, unreliable-as-hell, waffle-hole temporary proto-boards?  Not 
>>> that you shouldn't use them, but... you shouldn't.  Their flakiness 
>>> will just add an additional layer of uncertainty to your experiments.
>>
>> Hey, don't know solderless breadboards .. I've got a 50MHz digital 
>> circuit with 2 PICs & a 24/96 CODEC on a SMT adapter, and a bunch of 
>> other stuff all hooked up at the moment, and it's working just fine .. 
>> ok so I'm not quite getting 24bit resolution out of the CODECs what 
>> with all the cross talk ;)  .. but  for testing circuit principles its 
>> a nice quick way to check you haven't made any silly mistakes in the 
>> circuit design.
>>
>> And, as for unreliable .. I've never had any problems (aside from the 
>> obvious parasitic capacitance and extra crosstalk).  Maybe I've just 
>> got lucky and have a good breadboard ... but I'm also careful not to 
>> ever stick anything the wrong size in the holes.
>>
>> Seb
>>
>>
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