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Using a breadboard for permanent circuits?
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rrinker:
 Those are fancy ones. Radio Shack when they were still around carried the ones that were plain boards with the matching plates holes and traces - just cheap phenolic, not FR4 or anything, and certainly did not have the rows and columns painted and labelled like those.

 Once you go past the first few layouts which commonly are referred to as "chainsaw layouts" because when you are done you just cut them to pieces with a chainsaw, and move on to filling an entire basement, it becomes a bit more permanent. Nothing a sawzall can;t fix, as the sleazy landlord that owned the building an old club I used to belong to rented (rent was cheap - until we had most of the layout built - next renewal, he tripled it, thinking he had us captive. Nope, tore is all down and the club found an even bigger place that they were able to afford to buy outright, plus the barber across the street who had been there for decades made sure to tell anyone who seemed interested in his for rent sign just what a jerk this guy was - it sat empty for over 2 years before he was able to rent it out again).

Red Squirrel:
If you like watching the world burn, use a breadboard, and when you're happy with the circuit just pot the whole thing in a tupperware container.  >:D
SiliconWizard:
And if you want to convince someone to stop using a bunch of breadboards for moderately complex stuff, just arrange to stumble close to the mess of wires, pulling off a few by mere accident. Often the guy won't have a full proper schematic of the whole thing anyway. So that will be hours of wasted time to figure it all out again. They may switch to soldered proto boards after that.
james_s:
I cringe whenever I see a solderless breadboard installed inside a project box, I've seen it more than once.

I love breadboards for quick tests but I've never tried to build anything particularly complex on one.
coppercone2:
good contacts require grease usually (or at least live alot longer because corrosion propagation is inhibited), especially with weird pin geometries (not something nice like a battery holder). that will be one UGLY breadboard. Breadboard soaked in deoxit lol

reliability will be low because its not machine pin connectors or heavy spring material. Like good machine pin DIP sockets last a very long time, but the cheap ones like a breadboard are ehhh

if its a fused circuit, its fine for a hobbyist? i mean if you have a train room in your house, so long there is no smoke i don't think you will exactly lose out on something if the display does not work.
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