I have stopped hand wiring except for the simplest of circuits. For about
$100.00 you can get a few double-sided, plated through PCBs delivered to
your door in 3 days. I use Alberta Printed Circuits, but others offer
similar service. The time that used to be spent on wiring now goes to
laying out the first draft of the PCB. If you use a package where the
schematic talks to the PCB layout software you are guaranteed no layout errors!

Regards,

Jim Ham

IAt 05:57 AM 9/17/2000 , you wrote:
>Well, not to my surprise, the idea of using a protoboard has been roundly
>trashed here.
>
>Lately I've been building prototypes using the following techniques:
>
>Wirewrap construction (with power and ground buses in 22gauge wire and
>bypass caps soldered straight to the pins).
>
>Point to point wiring on .1x.1 board, using component leads where possible
>and wirewrap wire (soldered) where needed.
>
>What do you think of these techniques?
>
>At this point I really don't want to get involved in homemade prototype PCB
>stuff (tho if I could afford one of those XY table/router things it would be
>pretty neat).
>
>Bob Ammerman
>RAm Systems
>(contract development of high performance, high function, low-level
>software)
>
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