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All your favourite breadboard shenanigans. Is one 830 tie point board better than two 400 tie point boards? Are the 830 tie point boards still dodgy? Plus mounting breadboards on decking timber and so much more 🙂
MB-102 Solderless Breadboard Protoboard 830 Tie Points 2 buses Test Circuit https://ebay.us/81ZaT6
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All your favourite breadboard shenanigans. Is one 830 tie point board better than two 400 tie point boards? Are the 830 tie point boards still dodgy? Plus mounting breadboards on decking timber and so much more 🙂
MB-102 Solderless Breadboard Protoboard 830 Tie Points 2 buses Test Circuit https://ebay.us/81ZaT6
the cheap one's prints pretty bad too
All of the breadboard factories in the world(can't be more than 3 or 4) need to come together and retool their machinery so all breadboards are at least functional.
If it helps someone, I bought a pack of 10 breadboards from aliexpress that are good (nice connectors, but the paint is bad and there is the break in the middle of power rails). I bought them on 02/01 and recieved them on 11/01
Seller : "Electr Stars Store"
Product title : "Free Shipping 10PCS MB-102 MB102 Breadboard 830 Point Solderless PCB Bread Board Test Develop DIY"
Color : "White"
I've heard Jameco and Busboard manufacturers make some of the better quality boards but they are US-based and have no international supplier network. In general it seems the UK is pretty crap when it comes to finding local suppliers of decent quality boards and the market, especially Amazon UK, is flooded with rubbish 🙂
As you unwrapped that package I was looking at the one I bought recently which came in the same box. The tension here in the room was palpable…
I've heard that those MB-102s suffer from bad connections, especially to parts with thin legs.
If you mount the breadboard on thin metal you can dispense with the countersinking simply by screwing up through the metal into the bottom of the breadboard with short coarse-thread screws.
real dovetails for breadboards!
I abandoned the breadboard I got in my Arduino starter kit and ordered some much better ones from Jameco. Difference is night and day. Jameco's were like $8 each but well worth it compared to the crappy ones that came with the starter kit.
What is the size of the breadboards??
If you take the large drill bit that you're using to hand deburr, chuck it up into a drill and spin it backwards, it will deburr quickly without drilling into the board (much).
Since one of these breadboards has 63 rows, drilling holes in the same places as you do with the half-sized boards will put holes at rows 16 and 48. That would be my preference. If instead you want the holes evenly spaced, you could drill holes at rows 21 and 42. The latter might hold the edges less firmly, though. Yes, you intentionally avoided obsessive spacing calculations, but actually the row count makes this much easier than trying to use the power rail groupings.