Making a 9V distribution breadboard

[sjaltenb]

Ok so i have a power supply that gives off two sources of 9V positive and negative of the terminals...as shown here...

http://www.cincon.com/pdf/cfm20.pdf

Now I want to either buy a distribution strip or a guy at home depot suggested using a breadboard.

What I am trying to accomplish is a neat way to run power to each effect and LED, so each wire comes off a central source without having to string em together etc etc, so my initial thought was a terminal strip type thing but I cant find one around here that works for that... (im in the middle of nowhere mississippi.

Radioshack has the breadboards...anyone want to fill me in on this?? Should be pretty easy im guessing?

[sjaltenb]

**** I dont think i meant breadboard, i was thinking just a plain circuit board with nothing on it....

[Pushtone]

I do that often.
A power and ground distro board. Its a good place to mount the LED current limiting resistors.

I think what you want is perfboard or Pad-per-Hole board or prototyping board.

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[sjaltenb]

Ok yeah i guess thats what im looking to do, basically be able to take the positive and negative leads from the power supply (open frame type) and distribute those neatly to each LED or FX board.

But how do i go about doing this?? I mean think all I need is a board that has like 20 holes all connected that i can put the positive in from the power supply and then solder in each wire to go to each effect right??

[mdh]

Yes, it sounds like you're on the right track.  The only thing I'm not sure about is how best to handle the grounds.  You might want to read some of what R.G. has written on the subject (e.g., http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=31391.msg215752#msg215752).  But basically, yes, you just need rows of a whole bunch of connected holes, which can be accomplished by finding a board that already has that arrangement (I believe that some of the Radio Shack boards that are designed to resemble breadboard layouts have these, though they might break them up into sets of 5 or so connected holes) or by simply running a long wire along an edge of a piece of perf and tacking it down or "sewing" it through the board at intervals.  This also might be a good use for flea clips (the little metal terminals that can be seen in Pushtone's pictures if you squint; they're best visible in the third picture, between the resistors and the stomp switch).  You'll wire the power supplies from your distribution board to your effects in parallel, but like I said, I'm not sure how best to handle the power and signal grounds.  Sorry if that just adds to the confusion.