[sdiy] breadboard, was: Minimum spacing between 1/4" jacks on DOTCOM modules..

[Tim Parkhurst]

I do ALL my design work on breadboards. In fact, every time I've had a
PCB made without breadboarding the circuit first, it has come back to
bite me on the ass and required several tweaks afterwards.

For audio stuff, breadboards are fine. I might not use one if it's
more than ten or fifteen years old (especially the cheap ones), as the
spring contacts can stretch and become intermittent, but the
convenience is worth having to buy a new one every decade or so.

Tim (still has a little spring left in in contacts) Servo
---
"Sire, the church of God is an anvil that has worn out many hammers."
- H.L. Hastings


On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 3:52 AM, cheater00 . <cheater00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Andre, what breadboard do you use there?
>
> Can you guys suggest good breadboards to use for audio?
>
> Of course I am not dreaming of a breadboard that would be acceptable
> for designing VCOs.. but maybe filters or preamps or low-freq digital
> stuff?
>
> Cheers,
> D.
>
> On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Andre Majorel <aym-htnys at teaser.fr> wrote:
>> On 2013-05-16 10:05 -0400, Jean-Pierre Desrochers wrote:
>>
>>> I know this could be a silly question but
>>> I was wondering if there was any 'standard' on
>>> minimum spacing to respect between 1/4" jacks on DOTCOM modules ??
>>> I mean center to center spacing..
>>> I'm building a 2U width DOTCOM audio mixer module
>>> that could have 2 rows of 4 or 5 jacks side by side horizontaly
>>> at the bottom...
>>
>> Don't know about any standard but the result of my experiments
>> is that a 30 x 17 mm grid is comfortable. People with fat
>> fingers may want wider spacing.
>>
>> I'll add that, while most use wide vertical spacing and narrow
>> horizontal spacing, the opposite is better. It allows you to
>> place the legends on the side. As opposed to above or below,
>> where they're only visible when no plugs are inserted.
>>
>>   http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/misc/mscddm1.jpg
>>
>> --
>> André Majorel http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/
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