Hello everyone. I am seeking information on very high quality breadboard prototyping jumpers that I last saw in the late 1970s in my college electronics lab. These were used with a prototyping board for thru-hole components on 0.1 inch centers with machined female contacts mounted on a PC board, but could also be used with the block type wireless breadboards. The jumpers were gold plated with machined pins (probably around 22 guage) with integral machined female receptacle on the top to allow very easy daisy-chaining. The unified, machined, male/female connector was neatly surrounded by an insulating collar of matt black shrink wrap, from which emerged a wire which terminated in another such assembly. The wire was of small gauge, braided conductor, with high-quality insulation, possibly teflon. These very superior jumpers facilitated rapid and reliable set-up, and the daisy chaining feature spared the breadboard real-estate normally needed to allow multiple connections to a single device pin. Unlike the use of solid wire in block-type breadboards, these jumpers afforded an easy grip, inserted easily due to a rounded pin-end, and would not bend under normal use. I haven't been able to find these in the catalogs. Can anyone provide a reference for this item? Any help is appreciated in advance. Thanks!
Superior prototyping jumpers
Aug 02, 2006
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On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 04:13:51 GMT, Joseph Wilson Gave us:
The >> >Hello everyone. I am seeking information on very high quality
Gold pin "socket strip" header media. Sold in strips of like 37 pins or such. Has plastic holding all the pins.
Cut to length, plug in resistor lead jumper in top. Solder for permanence.
Best proto-typing tool known to man.
Easy to jam into a vector board, and then hand "wire wrap" the other side with tiny teflon hook-up wire.
All one has to do is take a drill the size of the holes, put it in a pin vise, and drill the vector board holes out clean. They are drilled so fast in production, that they are quite big enough, and very rough, and full of fiberglass burs. Then, these items mildly press fit into the vector board for some of the best plug and play proto-typing one could wish for.
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On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 04:13:51 GMT, Joseph Wilson Gave us:
Jumpers!? We don' need no STINKIN' jumpers! :-] Heheheeheeheh!
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 05:17:23 GMT, Phat Bytestard Gave us:
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One of the links here might be of help:
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I know exactly the things you're talking about - the thing is, the normal headers come in either DIP socket sizes or long strips; and it's the first I've heard of a jumper pin with a socket on top - you might have to klooge something up.
Good Luck! Rich
I was using them in the late 70's through 80's. Kinda like banana jumpers but made for protoboard size situation. I thought that they were made by Pomona Electronics.
JosephKK
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7 Aug 2006, joseph2k writesI just quoted the last relevant line. I DO put in [snip] if I take chunks out of the middle of a post.
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