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Electronics => Beginners => Topic started by: Telequipment on June 29, 2013, 08:55:14 am
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I've been trying many different ways of building, as I'm not quite ready for making boards, and my favourite way ,that I find the easiest with 100% success rate is the "Manhattan style", and I seem to be able to get quite complex circuits on the board, what's your favourite style I wonder :-+
Paul
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piggyback, similar to deadbug where components that share the same functions on at-least 1 chips pins you stack them, i've mounted tens of i2c eeproms this way, same for buffers and logic gates for increased current capacity, , when your using msop's or similar it can greatly get around the issues of board space on extremely dense hobby stuff,
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Vero board and point to point, are what I find easiest and best I tried board etching in the 1970's and found it so laborious and messy I never tried it again.
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I solder things together with wires and stuff.
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cthree, wow, I never would have thought of that. Tell me more. :-DD
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I like strip board and making my own PCB's.
I bought some nice island board but I find it annoying, strip board is excellent if you plan things out, much less wires are needed... especially if you use thin tubing on parts legs.
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I've been trying many different ways of building, as I'm not quite ready for making boards, and my favourite way ,that I find the easiest with 100% success rate is the "Manhattan style", and I seem to be able to get quite complex circuits on the board, what's your favourite style I wonder :-+
Horses for courses.
You wouldn't use veroboard for high power RF circuits while Manhattan's no good if it's all ICs.
Below is a scorecard based on the sorts of things you'd want in a construction method listed:
a. Compactness / b. Suitability for RF / c. Suitability for ICs / d. Ease of changing parts / e. Ease of probing around / f. Reproducibility by beginners / g. Ease of commercial manufacture / h. Construction speed (including board design & etching if applicable)
1 = bad, 2 = fair, 3 = good
Point to Point / dead bug 2/3/1/3/2/1/1/3
Manhattan style 1/3/1/3/3/2/1/3
Matrix board 3/2/3/2/1/1/1/2
Vero strip board 2/1/3/2/2/2/1/2
PC board 3/3/3/1/2/3/3/1
As one who wants to build experimental RF stuff quickly with mostly discrete parts, the first 2 or 3 are right for me. But others have different priorities.
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I don't know what this style would be called, but basically I use breadboards where ever I can get away with it, and for small parts I solder onto perfboard with just enough point to point wiring and circuitry to make a module and tie them all together with wires. I bolt down all the modules onto blocks of wood to keep them in place.
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Thank you to all who replied to my post, when mounting IC's I tend to use these and insulate from the main board, I like the Manhattan style as it reminds me of the way old tube stuff is put together, bottom line I guess if it works for you and you're enjoying it, that's the best we can expect. I did have a go at making a board, but I found it messy, I suppose you could have boards made, "expensive", and then there's working out the designing software :-//, so I'll stay with the method I like, it's just interesting to see what the rest of you do.
Thanks again
Paul