BuddytheReow
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Perfboard has its own skill set. You should probably build something more simple before doing a boneyard circuit. You can always desolder it.
How is this board meant to be used?
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Feral Feline
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Like anything, each has its merits, though vero less so.
+1 for DIYLC, as phi1 suggested, LOVE that program.
Cybercow
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You can find the User Manual HERE.
Perf/proto board feels like the next step up in between PTP and actual PCB and it’s only as ugly as you make it. For me it’s easier to translate a schematic into perf than Vero but that’s just me and I may just be dumb that way. Perf also offers a little more stability over PTP
Feral Feline
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I didn't know it had one. I learned through the time-tested tradition of TIME+TRIAL&ERROR.
Indeed, so much time, and innumerable trials and many errors.
Maybe I knew, but forgot?
MOOOooony Thanks for the link.
I am breadboarding and needed a couple 8 pole rotary switches. Can't use strip board without a lot of cuts. The perf board was easy. So I went from saying I have useless boards to now preferring perf to strip...
comradehoser
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I would say this isn't totally accurate. PTP in my experience is very stable and easy to fix. And I definitely wouldn't put it in an evolution that goes PTP>perf>PCB. I think there's also turret board, but I don't mess with that.
Each assembly mode has it's own virtues and vices, and PTP's big downside is time and mental effort.
It does vibrate, though, which might unnerve some people.
eh là bas ma
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In my experience, using perfboard vs stripboard greatly depends on the circuit we want to do.
For small circuits the stripboard will work fine but for anything a bit complex with more parts we will need the perfboard and do all the traces ourselves.
It's also a matter of which layout can do the job in the most compact way.
For something like a BD-2 circuit, i guess the perfboard layout is much smaller than the vero layout, for example.
Over at diystompboxes.com, a very experienced builder from Australia taught me a few things about building circuits on perfboards, and i realized it can become a very impressive work of craftmanship with lots of attention to details.
Many specific skills are required to do everything from scratch.
Using some software to help with creating the layouts, being very neat and tidy with the traces, using exacly 3 or 4 pieces of stripped wire and braid them together to perfectly fit the holes and secure the best possible connections in the circuit, doing something close to sewing with the wires, using the free holes between parts, to make sure the wires wont get loose, creating neat angles on the wire path to get it where it's needed, etc.
Circuits on perfboards can be real pieces of art, or at least some very impressive craftmanship only possible after years of experience and practice.
In my opinion a well-made perfboard circuit is the peak of diy builds.
We do everything ourselves, no pcb to make our work fast and easy. It's surely the most satisfying way of building circuits if we enjoy creating things with our own hands.
Vero builds arent always easy but it's less impressive and requires much less efforts because they are usualy simpler circuits with fewer components.
Here is an example from Duck_arse from diystompboxes :
For small circuits the stripboard will work fine but for anything a bit complex with more parts we will need the perfboard and do all the traces ourselves.
It's also a matter of which layout can do the job in the most compact way.
For something like a BD-2 circuit, i guess the perfboard layout is much smaller than the vero layout, for example.
Over at diystompboxes.com, a very experienced builder from Australia taught me a few things about building circuits on perfboards, and i realized it can become a very impressive work of craftmanship with lots of attention to details.
Many specific skills are required to do everything from scratch.
Using some software to help with creating the layouts, being very neat and tidy with the traces, using exacly 3 or 4 pieces of stripped wire and braid them together to perfectly fit the holes and secure the best possible connections in the circuit, doing something close to sewing with the wires, using the free holes between parts, to make sure the wires wont get loose, creating neat angles on the wire path to get it where it's needed, etc.
Circuits on perfboards can be real pieces of art, or at least some very impressive craftmanship only possible after years of experience and practice.
In my opinion a well-made perfboard circuit is the peak of diy builds.
We do everything ourselves, no pcb to make our work fast and easy. It's surely the most satisfying way of building circuits if we enjoy creating things with our own hands.
Vero builds arent always easy but it's less impressive and requires much less efforts because they are usualy simpler circuits with fewer components.
Here is an example from Duck_arse from diystompboxes :
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owlexifry
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that’s because stripboard/veroboard rules. choose your own adventure, put in the cuts and links, done - you have a board ready for action