[sdiy] Perfboard

[Harry Bissell Jr]

I don't use pad per hole, so I'm not a 'real'
engineer ???

I use NO copper... and Vector T42A push in terminals.

I almost NEVER have a short... although I do
occasionally forget to solder a terminal with can be
uhhh... intermittant (usually they work because of
good
mechanical contact, and fail later)

Also... I do have the advantage of many years of
PCB design experience... so flipping the board over
is very easy for me.  If you were not adept at that..
I could see an SBB being easier to use.

H^) harry

--- Paul Perry <pfperry at melbpc.org.au> wrote:

> 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.
> > 
> 
>