DIY EEG Troubleshooting

Audioguru again

Joined Oct 21, 2019
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I made hundreds or thousands of circuits on stripboard. The strips are cut to length with a drill bit and the pieces of copper strips, a few short jumper wires laying down and the parts form a pcb made and soldered together very quickly. It is easy to see what connects to what. The high stray capacitance between the rows of contacts and the long wires all over the place on a breadboard
are not present and do not cause oscillation on my stripboard circuits. Interference pickup like on a breadboard circuit is also very low.
 

DickCappels

Joined Aug 21, 2008
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I used those plastic breadboards decades ago but stopped because any time the circuit started getting complex finding poor connections was the main debugging task. I bought a new one about five years ago and have yet to use it but was never tempted to actually try to use it.

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Dead bug (Our technician called it "ugly bug" construction. The ground plane makes is good for one-off very high speed testing.

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Pad-per-hole.
Very rugged and my preferred method for most breadboards.


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Stripboards look a lot neater because they don't have nearly as many wires but for me at lest, requires advanced detailed planning of the layout.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/stripboard

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Manhattan construction looks very tidy but my gosh! Cutting those little square pieces of double-sided PCB material must be a lot of work.
 

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