Solder onto wirewrap board

Hi, The board is designed to do precisely what you suggested, use a hole for each connection. You could buy IC sockets with long leads such as those used in wire wrap, solder the IC lead at the pad and then solder other components to the long lead and then cut the lead flush with the solder joint. Regards, Tom

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I've done whole prototypes on that type of board. Here's some advice. First, just solder two corner pins of the IC socket, power and ground. (7 & 14, 8 & 16, 10 & 20, you get the picture), then the bypass cap, probably at the ground end, then connect power and ground.

For wire, I got a spool of #30 wire-wrap wire, and I use the little stripper tab from one of those hand wire-wrap tools, that has a wrapper at one end, an unwrapper at the other, and in the middle, a hole with a little piece of spring steel with a slot that's just the right size to strip the insulation without nicking the wire. Strip about 3/16" (4 mm) from the end, and with a tweezers, wind it around the socket pin, then solder.

Don't forget the current-limiting resistors for the LEDs. There are resistor packs with 4 individual resistors, from pin 1 to 2, pin 3 to 4, etc. They're awfully handy for that sort of thing. Or, by bending one lead of the resistor into a "J", you can stand up the resistor and use two adjacent holes.

Use at least a 10 uF bypass to ground at the Vcc side of the LEDs, in addition to at least one more 0.01 to 0.1 uF. (IOW, put the two caps in parallel).

Hope This Helps! Rich