Semi-Permanent Circuit

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nDever

Joined Jan 13, 2011
153
Hey,

Suppose I have a temporary prototype i.e. protoboard etc. and I wanted to move to a more "permanent" circuit such as a printed circuit board but I still wanted to keep options available such as changing connections, shorting connections to ground or power etc. Would I use jumpers, shorting blocks and/or ribbon cables or is there a better solution?
 

mcgyvr

Joined Oct 15, 2009
5,394
or adding additional holes to the board to allow zero ohm jumper wires to be attached
or adding additional pins that can be shorted with shorting jumper connectors (like on a hard drive to allow you to select master/slave,etc..
 

Pencil

Joined Dec 8, 2009
272
Nobody mentioned:

DIP switches
PC mount terminal blocks
PC mount wire connection tabs (think male spade terminals)
Header pins (can be used in conjunction with jumpers or plugs)
 

THE_RB

Joined Feb 11, 2008
5,438
If you get used to having a hot soldering iron next to you when you work then ALL connections are "semi-permanent". ;)
 
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