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| Thread ID: 93580 | 2008-09-23 07:10:00 | Question for electronics buffs | Ferg (2559) | PC World Chat |
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| 707175 | 2008-09-23 07:10:00 | I'm helping my son with a simple electronics project. I have a basic understanding of circuit diagrams, soldering, components etc, have got the bits and now come down to soldering them on to the strip board. The board I got is a strip board from Jaycar, part number HP9550. I expected the board to have a series of copper tracks running parallel along the board. Instead each hole has a copper ring around it, but none of the holes are connected, it's like each hole is an island. So, the question, how is this supposed to work? Do I solder the leads of the components directly to each other to make the connections? Am I supposd to make the connections with insulated wire? Or have I got the wrong type of board? They don't seem to have any other type. Thanks, Ferg |
Ferg (2559) | ||
| 707176 | 2008-09-23 07:25:00 | Do a search for "veroboard" - cat HP9540 9542 9544 These ones are series of copper tracks which run parallel. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 707177 | 2008-09-23 09:25:00 | Thanks, but it doesn't help much as I've already got the board , and the store is an hours round trip away:( So, anyone know how to work these types? |
Ferg (2559) | ||
| 707178 | 2008-09-23 09:29:00 | you will probably find that you poke the legs of the parts through and solder on the other side. use wire to link parts. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 707179 | 2008-09-23 09:35:00 | jaycar.com.au | feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 707180 | 2008-09-23 09:50:00 | Yup, thats what I've got. I think Tweak'e might be on to it, sounds like its a wire job. Might actually be easier to interpret that way. | Ferg (2559) | ||
| 707181 | 2008-09-23 10:19:00 | Nah, what you've got is perfboard. This is from the Vero site VEROBOARD - SINGLE SIDED, COPPER PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS, FULLY PIERCED WITH HOLES. ALSO KNOWN AS STRIPBOARD Veroboard is ideal for development and prototyping work, Veroboard is designed primarily for hard wiring of discrete components, typically in analogue circuits, but is equally useful where a number of common bus or signal lines are required. Veroboard is manufactured from copper clad laminated board which has been pierced with a grid of holes and machined to provide parallel tracks A pic www.imagef1.net.nz The site http://www.verotl.com/ |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 707182 | 2008-09-23 16:30:00 | Thanks feersumendjinn, you are spot on, it is perf board. Thanks to that info, I found the following site that fully explains how to use it. itp.nyu.edu Time to warm the iron up! Ferg |
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