Good info on how to build stripboards

[Gilles C]

While working on a couple new layouts myself, I found this link on my PC that could help newbies.

I thought it was a good time to post it again, since it is also stripboard time again.

http://www.zen22142.zen.co.uk/Prac/vero_circ/vero.htm

Gilles

[alteredsounds]

Really good site, wish I had seen this when I started

[zjokka]

thanks!
great, was looking for something like that.

Initially didn't understand the use of stripboard as I thought it made it harder to see/check connections.
But since I've started breadboarding I've come to understand that it 1) can be more economical and perfboard 2) comes more inititively after breadboarding 3) often easier to add another connection.


zj

[Herr Masel]

Here in Israel I can't get stripboard, and using perfboard can become frustrating, it even dissuades me from taking on larger projects. Is there a relatively simple way of converting perf to strip board? I guess the two obvious answers are mail from europe and DIY pcbs, but from what I understand the fumes from ferric chloride are too toxic to use without a fume extractor (which I don't have).

[Gilles C]

I'm glad it could bring a little bit of light somewhere. That was the goal.

I was lucky enough to have learned and used stripboards early in my life for my work. And I am glad that it came back in force in the last years.

But if you never used stripboards before, one way to see them is like double-side PCBs. Except that the bottom layer is always going from left to right and right to left. And the top layer is always up or down.

The bottom layer have tracks of copper that must be cut to the correct lengh, and the top layer connections are added to the correct lengh with the aid of the parts and some jumpers.

That way, you can go from PCBs to stripboards to perf boards easily with the same design.

Normally, stripboard are/were used for prototypes because they are easy to modify. And etched PCBs are/were used for the final product. But for single circuits as we do for guitar effects, they're perfect.

Gilles

[Paul Perry (Frostwave)]

Herr Masel, if you can get pref, then you can lay stuff out as though it was a stripboard, and then, you can substitute the missing "strips" by pieces of heavy copper wire (I use single strands from the stuff inside house wiring).