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Old 18th Aug 2006, 12:23 am   #8
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Default Re: Bodge-o-tronic: Veroboard!

There's nothing wrong with building one-off projects with Veroboard and similar systems. Many of us don't have the facilities or expertise to design, etch and drill custom PCBs.

The only thing I would say as a long established Veroboard user is it's very, very difficult to build stuff without making mistakes - crossing tracks with solder, failing to isolate tracks, soldering components to the wrong track, etc etc. Been there, done that When you *do* make an assembly error it can be very difficult to identify it.

Veroboard also isn't great for RF projects, but that may be down to my lack of skill

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