06-05-2024, 02:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-05-2024, 02:52 PM by ppppenguin.)
You're overthinking this. Just get the components down on some pin board and wire them up. Perhaps sketch it out first so you can do most of the connections with tinned copper wire. Check your wiring against the schematic and you're good to go.
It may not be so relevant in your case, but you may have noticed a run of 18swg tinned copper wire all the way round the edge of my board. That's a nice solid 0V bus. Not as good as a ground plane but very useful indeed.
One thing I've almost never used in the last 50 years is the T-Dec and similar plug-in prototyping boards. I suppose they have their uses but in a professional environment it somehow seems easier to solder it together on pin board and not worry about the bad contacts. It's stuck with me whether I'm doing it as a professional or enthusiast.
It's all change with surface mount, ball grid arrays etc. It straight to multilayer PCB for those, then find the problems, upissue the PCB and repeat. With luck there will be an evaluation kit so I'm not starting from scratch, or an older design I can hack about to try some ideas. Rob, these are not problems that will affect you.
It may not be so relevant in your case, but you may have noticed a run of 18swg tinned copper wire all the way round the edge of my board. That's a nice solid 0V bus. Not as good as a ground plane but very useful indeed.
One thing I've almost never used in the last 50 years is the T-Dec and similar plug-in prototyping boards. I suppose they have their uses but in a professional environment it somehow seems easier to solder it together on pin board and not worry about the bad contacts. It's stuck with me whether I'm doing it as a professional or enthusiast.
It's all change with surface mount, ball grid arrays etc. It straight to multilayer PCB for those, then find the problems, upissue the PCB and repeat. With luck there will be an evaluation kit so I'm not starting from scratch, or an older design I can hack about to try some ideas. Rob, these are not problems that will affect you.
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