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

[cheater00 .]

Tom & co, that's great advice! Thanks!

Hey, I really like those K&H circuit labs! Might get some myself just
for fun... Can't find any place to buy them though? I REALLY wish they
had bigger photos online! Oh, oops... just found a distributor for
their training kits. 3000 euro each! I think I'll skip buying this
time!

Regarding breadboards: I noticed some cost more and some much less...
are the 3M or Global Specialties so much better?
I've also noticed that some of them don't have silver contacts..

Can you use this to run a circuit at 30V rails?

Any ideas what the capacitive coupling between bars running parallel
would be? What about the impedance of the clips?

Thanks

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net> wrote:
> Hey, what's wrong with designing VCOs on a breadboard?
>
> I bet half the VCOs out there were designed on a breadboard. Maybe they worked a little better when they got a decent PCB, but I bet they worked fine on the breadboard too.
>
> Anyway, I like these ones:
>
>         http://www.kandh.com.tw/products_2.php?prod=67
>
> Available from Maplin, Farnell, and others. I've designed plenty of filters on them, and no end of PIC and dsPIC stuff.
>
> Seems to me breadboards fall into two camps - rows parallel to rails (like above), and rows perpendicular to rails. The second style gives you a long linear workspace with ICs parallel to the rails. The first style gives you blocks of work space with chips vertical in each block. I started off with the second style and in recent years have got used to the first. Both are workable and have advantages and disadvantages.
>
> HTH,
> Tom
>
>
> On 18 May 2013, at 11:52, 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.
>