Nice thanks again for the info. I have some stripboard but the convenience of laying it out on breadboard, being able to try different components, its hard to get away from that.Most opamps have gain at Megahertz radio frequencies. Many transistors have gain at microwave frequencies. Then the capacitance between all the rows of contacts and between messy long wires all over the place on a breadboard guarantee high frequency oscillation even with low frequency signals or even with no signals.
Years ago every circuit I built on a breadboard oscillated and the contacts were always intermittent. Then I discovered how to plan a compact layout of parts soldered together on a stripboard and used it ever since, even to make single prototypes that looked good enough to be sold as the final products. Each copper strip is cut and used for many parts of a circuit so the strips and a few short jumper wires make the traces of a pcb. If I needed to replace a part then my solder sucker easily removed it. Stripboard has very low capacitance between the parts and no intermittent contacts.
I HATE desoldering but maybe I should just get better at it.
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