[sdiy] Perfboard

[Paul Perry]

I don't want to get a rep as "mr stripboard", - I only prototype 
ANYTHING reluctlantly!! - but, I must say, that after soldering 
something together on stripboard, I then get out the multimeter 
and check for shorts between every adjacent pair of tracks, and 
across every 'cut'.
Because if you don't check before you power up, you have to do it 
after you power up anyway.

Oh, here's some more advice: an exacto knife is great for slitting
your wrists. Which is what you'll probably do, if you try to cut 
stripboard traces with it. Battery drill for me.

FWIW, the 'real' engineers I know all use pad-per-hole.
No use to me, because I can't remember what is happening 
when I turn it over. Works well for them, though. And I suppose today
you can run surface mount parts across between the pads!!!

paul perry melbourne australia

----- Original Message ----- 

> > Hi there list I am absolutely sick of using veroboard (evil lines!!),
> The reason I stopped using them?! Too many solder bridges.
>