Charles Craft wrote:
> Haven't there been threads over the years that solderless breadboards
> are evil?

Of course, since there are always incompetent people that blame their tools
instead of the real problem.  Solderless breadboards can be quite useful.
Like any tool, they have their limitations, but those shouldn't be a issue
for most ordinary PIC circuits.  Adjacent nodes will have some capacitance
between them, but so do parallel traces on a PC board.  Most of the times a
few pF between nodes is expected and not a big deal for a well designed
circuit.  If you have a very sensitive analog circuit where a pF or two
matters, then you should probably be using guard rings and the like anyway.

I've used these solderless breadboards many times, including for PIC
circuits with 20MHz crystals.  I don't remember any problems due to the
nature of the breadboards, although I thought about the characteristics whe=
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building the circuits.


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