Timeline for Why does my circuit work on a breadboard, but not on a perfboard? I am new to soldering
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| May 12, 2019 at 15:13 | comment | added | ShapeOfMatter | @motoDrizzt: Some bread-boards have sister perf boards with the exact same layout, so you can move the literal physical components from a demo onto a permanent soldered board without any modification. I've also used a fully-connected perf-board; the idea was that you'd separate the cells as needed with an x-acto-knife; I didn't find them recommendable. | |
| May 12, 2019 at 13:02 | comment | added | motoDrizzt | @ShapeOfMatter: in my short experience toying with circuit making, a while ago, I've never seen anything like a preconnected perf board and my instinctive reaction has been exactly the opposite of yours: "What is for? Why someone in his right mind would spend money on that?" | |
| May 10, 2019 at 16:11 | comment | added | hobbs | @ShapeOfMatter it gives you a nice place to put down through-hole and DIP things in a nice tidy way without having to fabricate a "real" board, you get the flexibility of free routing instead of five-in-a-row, and less parasitics. | |
| May 10, 2019 at 14:42 | comment | added | DKNguyen | @ShapeOfMatter You aren't tied to premade traces which can get really annoying. | |
| May 10, 2019 at 14:17 | comment | added | Joe S | You can make just the connections that you need and save space. | |
| May 10, 2019 at 14:00 | comment | added | ShapeOfMatter | Sort of a tangential question: the Perf board he is using: What is it for? How is it supposed to be used? | |
| May 10, 2019 at 12:22 | vote | accept | Sebastian Villate | ||
| May 10, 2019 at 12:22 | vote | accept | Sebastian Villate | ||
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| May 10, 2019 at 2:13 | history | answered | EasyOhm | CC BY-SA 4.0 |