I tend to take apart solid conductor ethernet cable and use it for most things I need to point-to-point wire. The stranded stuff, for my fingers anyway, seems harder to use in those situations. Most of what I'm doing is Manhatten style construction, a bit different from vero boards, but not terribly. On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 7:44 PM, solarwind wrote: > This may seem like yet another noob question, but I don't want to find > out the hard way half way through my project. I have tried to google > the answer to this, honestly, but didn't get many results. Wikipedia > didn't have much information on this either. > > What kind of wire should I use for prototyping on Veroboards? For > breadboards, I use thin, single strand copper wire because it's stiff > and it sticks into the hole easily. However, veroboard does not > require that stiffness and the stiffness may actually be detrimental? > > All I know about wire is that there are single stranded, multiple > stranded, thin and thick and a whole bunch of specialty types. Which > should I use for Veroboards? I don't want the wire occupying half the > board so I think it should be pretty thin, and I think I should get > the multiple stranded type for flexability. Also, I think the multiple > stranded copper wire will allow the solder to get between the gaps in > the wire easier, but I'm not too sure on this. What are your opinions > on this? > > Please share your success stories as well. > > -- > solarwind -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist