Should I buy breadboard with power supply?

Oct 09, 2004 7 Replies

Should I buy a breadboard with a 5 volt regulated power supply or get a regular breadboard without one?



Thank you.



Whatever you do, you will need a power supply of some sort - having it built into the breadboard may be convenient.

If you expect to work with microcontrollers or other digital logic, you will probably want a 5 volt supply (although many parts these days are designed to work on lower voltages.)

If you will be working in the analog world (audio amplifiers, for example) you will want bipolar supplies +/- 12 - 15 volts, typically.

Peter Bennett, VE7CEI peterbb4 (at) interchange.ubc.ca new newsgroup users info : http://vancouver-webpages.com/nnq GPS and NMEA info: http://vancouver-webpages.com/peter Vancouver Power Squadron: http://vancouver.powersquadron.ca

As a general rule, the breadboard + power supply kits don't save you that much and are a lot less flexible than separates. In addition, you may want something other than +5 if you ever use op amps or lower voltage stuff. Something like this

formatting link
would do you for a while. It's not Lambda Power but still...

It would help, though, if you could mention some specifics about what equipment you have in mind.

Rich Webb Norfolk, VA

"stuff" (cause I don't know) with Microcontrollers and Microprocessors.

Just get one without built-in supply, then you can experiment whatever you are building *even* on stability with respect to power supply Also, depending on what you are trying, more as one supply is needed so put money in a decent dual output supply of say 6...10A 0..30V

Thank you.

I'd get one without (it's more flexible) and use some of the money saved to buy a few 7805's. Personally, I mostly use a 9v battery with a 7805 and capacitor soldered directly to the battery clip - effectively a regulated 5v battery :-)

So I don't have to have one plugged into the wall?

------------ No, any battery pack greater than about 7V can be used with a 7805 voltage regulator to provide regulated +5.0V +/- 5% .

-Steve

-Steve Walz rstevew@armory.com ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/user/rstevew Electronics Site!! 1000's of Files and Dirs!! With Schematics Galore!! http://www.armory.com/~rstevew or http://www.armory.com/~rstevew/Public

Join the Discussion

Have something to add? Share your thoughts — no account required.

Didn't find your answer?

Ask the community — no account required