To begin, yeah, I probably should have figured this out before I soldered it all together. I had some ideas but I never was real happy with them and so I haven't done anything about it.
So I've got this strip board I'm using as an address bus and another that I plan on using as a data bus. The idea is the address lines come in on the SIP pins (16 for the address bus. 6502 CPU). On the south side of the bar graph LEDs are a couple of terminating resistors for the LEDs.
My plan was to use 2n7000s to drive the LEDS (because I've got a bag of 100 of them lying around). So I'd do the gate on the bus side, the source on the LED side and then I need to connect all the drains to power.
So that's my question. From a logistics point of view, how best can I do that without short circuiting anything. So I've got a break on the under-side that I planned to span with the gate and source legs of the 2n7000s. I thought about running a stiff, bare wire with the voltage above the PCB spanning the top that I'd tack each drain to in a point-to-point style. Having the voltage bare and exposed just seems BAD(c). I've done point to point in vacuum tube amps, but seems wrong with a digital build.
Anyone have some better ideas for how to do this?
So I've got this strip board I'm using as an address bus and another that I plan on using as a data bus. The idea is the address lines come in on the SIP pins (16 for the address bus. 6502 CPU). On the south side of the bar graph LEDs are a couple of terminating resistors for the LEDs.
My plan was to use 2n7000s to drive the LEDS (because I've got a bag of 100 of them lying around). So I'd do the gate on the bus side, the source on the LED side and then I need to connect all the drains to power.
So that's my question. From a logistics point of view, how best can I do that without short circuiting anything. So I've got a break on the under-side that I planned to span with the gate and source legs of the 2n7000s. I thought about running a stiff, bare wire with the voltage above the PCB spanning the top that I'd tack each drain to in a point-to-point style. Having the voltage bare and exposed just seems BAD(c). I've done point to point in vacuum tube amps, but seems wrong with a digital build.
Anyone have some better ideas for how to do this?
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