11 Dec
2011
11 Dec
'11
5:07 p.m.
On Dec 11, 2011, at 7:34 PM, Mouse wrote:
That said, different strokes for different folks. If
Tony, or anyone
else for that matter, finds soldering works better, I'd never try to
argue otherwise. For me, with my skills and preferences and the kinds
of stuff I do, solderless breadboards are a huge win - but those
qualifications are important.
Well, yeah. My preference, given an abundance of perfboard and appropriate parts (not
always a given), is wire-wrap. Much less stray capacitance, and it's at least easier
to keep the rat's nest linear with wire-wrap (instead of the mass of arcs that a
solderless breadboard entails). However, while I have quite a few wire-wrap machined-pin
IC sockets (which work great for discrete passives as well), I don't have any
wire-wrap ports, which generally necessitates a bit of some of the very worst kind of
soldering to get the data off the board. :-)
Of course, I wouldn't use solderless breadboards where any ports were required anyway,
since you can't place double-wide headers on them anyway (at least, not usefully).
I tend to wire-wrap a lot more often than I solder, mostly because I don't have much
stripboard at my disposal, and bare phenolic is a whole lot cheaper. If I do anything
major, I need something with proper power buses anyway.
- Dave