I tried to find those ancient solderable terminal strips as seen on
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Has anybody found this at Digikey?
But while looking, I found prototyping with turrets and turret boards.
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Listed on digikey's site but no stock so I guess it sucks.
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?Ref=9698&Site=CA&Cat=34210983 (If Digi doesn't have it...you don't need it .. :) ) Anybody here put turrets to use and is it a good prototyping method?
I've done dead bug, 3D matrix, vero, adhesive copper tape, wirewound and terminal strip. But haven't done turret. D from BC
Wow, that's a /really/ old system (notice the weird pin-spacing?). I haven't seen those around since the days of tag strips. I'd be amazed if you can find any place that still stocks it. You could do something similar these days by using break-off pin-header strips in that 0.1" perfboard + solder pads style protoyping board. If 0.1" spacing is too tight, just pull every second pin before soldering.
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If it must be obtainable from Digikey then I suppose it depends on what you are happy with for your needs. For example, according to their stock list they have
They make handly test points and off-board solder thingies, but never for prototyping on top of the breadboard itself - I just use the proto-board, and when I'm ready to melt metal, I use something like a pad-per-hole perfboard, preferably with a ground plane (actually, a grid) on top, and just wire point-to-point, with, like I said, turret terminals as handy little off-board tie points.
But unless you have the little anvil and special little punch, they're kind of a PITA to install properly. lessee...
They have their place. In my situation, I was putting together a passive filter network for DC power isolation. For a handful of large components, those strips are OK.
I'm guessing wirewound is wirewrap in Canada. ;-)
Dead bug really only works well with DIPs. For surface mount, the spacing is plain nuts. What sucks is those surf boards often cost more than the chips.
oops I meant wirewrap. Not wirewound like resistors..
I saw a old tv completely constructed with those solderable terminal strips. I'm going to check the local electronics surplus (&junk) store... D from BC
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