How is this board meant to be used?

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DDad

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I have the crappiest board ever, unless I just can't figure out how to use it. None of the holes are connected, and the solder pads on either side are not connected to anything. How is this meant to be used? I think this is in the running for crappiest board ever.
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I cut my teeth on strip board (tagboard effects site) and it’s still my preference. But, cutting the breaks with a drill bit is kind of annoying. the EE guys at my work prefer perfboard and using the extra leg as the trace like pictured above. Effectslayouts.com is a whole site of perfboard layouts, so I guess he prefers those.
 
OK, so plated perf board is a thing, but it's pretty fugly to me. You just lay down the legs of the components to make the connections, right?
 
AKA protoboard. As in prototype.
DDad said:
OK, so plated perf board is a thing, but it's pretty fugly to me. You just lay down the legs of the components to make the connections, right?
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Yes, or you can use wire for longer runs. Solder it into a component adjacent hole and then bridge to the component.
One advantage is you don't have a bunch of conductive surface.
 
jwin615 said:
AKA protoboard. As in prototype.

Yes, or you can use wire for longer runs. Solder it into a component adjacent hole and then bridge to the component.
One advantage is you don't have a bunch of conductive surface.
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I think you can also stick pot legs directly in the board I think? Or at least more easily than with stripboard. Of course it's personal preference whether that's better than off-board wiring, but for me, off-board wiring is the worst part of the build process, so while I haven't used perf board to build anything (yet), that is something to consider.
 
DDad said:
I have the crappiest board ever, unless I just can't figure out how to use it. None of the holes are connected, and the solder pads on either side are not connected to anything. How is this meant to be used? I think this is in the running for crappiest board ever.
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Perf-board — it's got far more logical flow with layouts (like a one-sided etched PCB) than the insane scattering of components across vero aka stripboard.

None of the holes are connected because you get to decide what's connected, without having to cut notches out of vero (I guess that's why they call it "stripboard", that or you want to strip yourself of every hair on your body trying to follow a schematic with vero-layouts — or strip your clothes off and run headlong straight into a fire or active volcano ...)

It's the BEST PROTO-TYPING BOARD EVER!
Here's a few layouts I've done, one or two I've actually built up with a success-rate greater than that of zero for "vero":

Feral Feline

Thread 'FERAL's imPERFect LAYOUTS'

Thought I'd start a thread to share my layouts, get feedback on them, and hopefully have some fun.
This sub-forum seemed the logical place to knot the thread.

I use DIYLC for my perf-layouts (though I have Eagle) because I spent an inordinate amount of time learning how to use DIYLC and it's where I'm comfortable now — for the moment. Tried getting up to speed on Eagle a few times, but... maybe later.

I originally started doing perf layouts mainly because I wanted to build stuff that wasn't available on PCB and prefer perf to vero, another reason was I didn't think I had the skills or...
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More perf layouts than you can shake a stick at that also come with Etchable Layouits, too:

Perf and PCB Effects Layouts

This is a library of perfboard and single-sided PCB effect layouts for guitar and bass for pedal building enthusiasts.
effectslayouts.blogspot.com effectslayouts.blogspot.com
 
OK I'm convinced, I'll try perf.

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SO WATCHA GONNA BUILD? .
 
I have a list of Boneyard schematics I want to try. There was a thread where Chuck listed some of his favorite circuits, going to pick one of those for some perf board fun. It seems like it might be better than strip boards, no cutting involved.
 
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