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Tom5tom Entertainment but are they gluten-free?

Are those organic bread-boards, or organic-bread boards?

They have to be farm-to-table.

anal yes not sure about the Art bit

Get out.

muh1h1 Haha, I should've known I wasn't the only one to be triggered by that remark. 😁

Sharklops Yeah, floppy jumper wires are a well known problem. All those soldering fumes, you know.

muh1h1 maybe your component is too thick for the holes. Try wriggling it couple of times before shoving it in.

Brainstorm4300 Or maybe, as the video demonstrated, the problem could be solved by exchanging the receiving end altogether.

Malcolm Whinfield China's a great source for cheap 'modules' for tinkering n evaluating project ideas with. The only downside to this is the time you spend reverse engineering n probing these circuit boards because these no decent online support. Okay, there's the manufacturers data sheets for things like the IC's they use- but they have a habit of scrubbing or defacing the chips epoxy encasement to stop you doing this!

I agree if it has another companies logo or part number it could be classed as fake. These are just poorly constructed. The split rail is common on the larger board. I have some of the larger boards that also have the joiners on the short end for joining lengthwise.

Then the title would be "very low quality/poorly implemented copies of a fairly common & simple design Solderless breadboards" tl,dr.

i agree, its said there are generally 5 quality levels for nearly every product produced in china, the problem is though actually knowing what quality level your going to get, vs paying for.

The title should simply be "Why some bread boards are crap"

It's not that big of a deal but this video really saved from buying a lot of poor quality breadboards

$1.86 ? you are being ripped of...I got them for 50cets :)

And more grounds, and shorter power rails is a plus!

It's an extremely frustrating problem if you aren't expecting it. I spent several hours once trying to find the issue with an ESP8266 uart connection, uncertain if it was a power supply issue or a firmware issue, or a software problem on the host, all while trying to explain to a friend how awesome ESP8266 are! Eventually discovered the split rail causing a floating ground. Nasty nasty nasty.

I don't understand that one either. And it's not asif high-quality boards don't have split rails. I must admit I have scratched my head for way too long before I noticed the lines where interrupted. but it cost 4 seconds and two inches of wire to fix, so what*the*fart?

HEHEHE!

Yeah, this, having the split power rails on a board that big is a GOOD thing.

'Saving money at any cost' as my good friend would say.

I like to say that I like something that is inexpensive, but not something which is cheap.

Don't buy from E-bay.

@@byteme6346 Actually, I've just counted, and I have six breadboards, all bought from Ebay. Five of them are easy to insert into, and one of them (which I unfortunately got for my gransdon) is not. At 5:45, he asks "Could I have avoided buying the rip-off breadboards? - Well, not really" The problem with Ebay is that it's an open marketplace, where quality manufacturers sell alongside cheap manufacturers who are selling 'covers' of the better stuff - but what marketplace is not like that? If not Ebay, who do you use? I have bought from Amazon and had rip-off products, and you can't just judge it on price either. I was looking for a Ruizu X06 MP3 player, and noticed that I could pay £32 or £65 for exactly the same device from the same manufacturer, where the price doesn't indicate any difference at all. You will get sellers who will chance it.

Nicholas Barnes I had the same idea until I found out I was living under a cheap rock when I borrowed a high quality breadboard from my friend. I have so many of those cheap crap ones but I've kinda gotten used to them so it doesn't bother me that much. A good indication is the price although having said that stuff on Ebay are kind of a hit or miss thing. Stuff from reputed online shops such as sparkfun or adafruit are however of high quality. :v

Try CPC/Farnell if you are in the UK. That's where I got mine from: they are "Wish" brand, made in Taiwan, and inexpensive. I can't remember ever having had any rubbish products from CPC. Are you the same Nicholas Barnes I was at school with forty years ago? If so, hello!

Right. I need to do a CPC order (need another Raspberry Pi), so I'll drop a few in the basket and see what they're like. I was only 6 forty years ago, so I doubt I know you - but hello anyway!!

That's why Brexit happen...

When you were 6 these breadboards were like 15 bucks each. Look it up. A 4000 point assembled breadboard was more than $149. Chinese components have thinner leads than US branded counterparts. Quarter watt resistor leads on chinese resistors are ridiculously thin compared to a Vishay or Dale.

Well I better get reporting then! It's not like they're just going to open a new store in 10 minutes.

I mean otherwise it is just useless crap printed on by a company that has zero experience with actually using the product they are manufacturing. They are just trying to follow what another company is selling but *thought* they knew better by starting in the top left. And even then they didn't start at pin 1.

I'll be sure to check these when they come in :)

alice saw this video. he wont dare sending a fake one.

Interesting observation bdkmont that shape might be easyer to pick out on some of the pictures of products.

I just received 3 of these from am ebay seller called tk-electronics2016 and they seem to be OK. The numbering and lettering is as in the picture (print quality is a bit faded but still readable). I tried to insert a few components in and they felt just fine. I haven't opened up any yet, can't bear the terrifying thought of destroying a 1$ component :D Here's a link if it works (item id 222184036094) www.ebay.com/itm/222184036094

Please tell us the seller's name?

Too many people expect ZIF from these. Easy in = easy out. Good ones last way longer. The printing tip is useful.

Also, from the Wikipedia page on breadboards. Note that the board shown to the right of that text about power bus strips has the same split bus and inverted lettering as yours: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadboard _Some manufacturers connect all terminals in a column. Others just connect groups of, for example, 25 consecutive terminals in a column. The latter design provides a circuit designer with some more control over crosstalk (inductively coupled noise) on the power supply bus. Often the groups in a bus strip are indicated by gaps in the color marking._

True, the split power rails could be seen as an advantage :)

I suspect the reason for the inverted and reversed lettering is simply that it was quicker and easier to create a print mask for half the breadboard and then rotate a copy 180 degrees.

Makes more sense to make a template that prints the markings in one step and not require rotation at all. Plus, the alignment then only needs to be accurate once instead of twice.

Didn't mean it like that. You create half the mask, rotate a copy of it and create a template from both copies together. One single print, one single alignment.

Jon Sten I've bought a few different ones from Alice and they're hit and miss. None where exceeding bad like some others I've gotten. Finding good breadboards is getting really hard since even local sellers are stating to stock these extremely cheap and poor quality ones even when they're not selling then for cheap. Overall the best by average breadboards I've gotten have been the mini ones without the power bus bars.

I've got a breadboard that has a bow to it, it doesn't lie flat, lol.

I've seen the same thing, both in solderless breadboards, as well as with solder-style prototype boards. It's especially frustrating with the prototype boards, as the bend makes it difficult to insert large DIPs such as the Arduino Nano.

mine too and virtually impossible to correct

Rob Bennett I noticed the same thing.

That's because the op amp needs a split power supply +12v 0v -12v

Daniel S - Kitchen Machine Shop Maplins used to be a very good component supplier, sadly the past decade they've gone the way Tandy's did here in the UK..... No one wants to cater for the hobbyist, it's all off the shelve, or out of the box consumer tat!

tablatronix Its silly though.... they press them out in one long run, then snap them into strips of five contacts to fabricate the board with. They could easily therefore make continuous power rails, my thinking is they've only got injection moulding tooling for one type of board based around these little short contact strips.

2010craggy some times split power rails are desired. You can connect the split rails but you can't break a continuous rail.

Wanna bet? I've broken those long rails before. Not on purpose, they are sometimes difficult to extract without breaking them. Why take one out? Sometimes leads break off, and need to be removed. After 40 years of breadboarding things do happen.

Not really silly since if you're working in analog you're likely to need 2 or 3 power rails plus ground. If you're not, install a jumper between the rails as soon as you get the board and you're done. And I agree, every long breadboard I've ever owned had split power rails.

none of mine are split