Solderless breadboard capacitance

May 28, 2026 Last reply: 1 month ago 27 Replies

Nevermind about that latter error. A tech-slop heading of "Range" in place of the more precise "Maximum" temporarily confused me. Bicycle rides are marvelous for thinking things through. This time my Doberman pulled my fat tire bicycle around a nearby park. Bach again accompanied me on my earbuds when the intrisic tech-slop nature of the "Range" column heading came to mind. In my opinion Heaviside probably also sorted things out during his own bicycle rides.

Danke,

I use many small adaptors with .1 inch pin spacing, often Chinese modules from ebay you should have noticed in the links I gave I do have a dremel, maybe for some simple minded that is fun to play with but it just makes a lot of shrapnel on the workbench and looks like s*it.

At work I designed among other stuff cards for in the IBM PC, ISA in those days, and the design of the peeseebees was given to a local company here after I did the veroboard tests of the circuits, Never a problem. But the stuff was usually very specific and actually not a mass production thing, where thousands were needed.

Diamonds shine even better! And are forever!

Things like that are a lot cheaper done on veroboard, no gold needed

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is great for SMDs too:
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in some places you can just use wires, ..

Put it in a box with battery, still working 11 years later:

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has USB control too.

See real gold connectors! I know you like that! Sent some to Fort Knox, they could use some gold there with that deficit!

You cannot be fired!

That table basically tells us to use at least 10kHz to measure pF capacitance.

Jeroen Belleman

It's always been customary for multi-meters to have of ranges and to state the maximum value of each. It was like that already when they were still called 'galvanometers'.

Jeroen Belleman

Most PCB and connector gold is micro-inches thick, not worth much.

Actually I could, until the next Board meeting.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

something like this: https://a.co/d/000dYlqR

OK, I use those too, but not on the white things. I've made some of my own, for unusual packages.

Here's an old "Manhattan style" breadboard.

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John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

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