Insight - How Breadboard works

Table of Contents:

  1. Insight - How Breadboard works
  2. Clips Arrangement
  3. Metal Clips
  4. Clip Structure & Other Parts


Bread Board is a great tool to design and test your circuits. You do not need to solder wires and components to make a circuit while using a bread board. It is easier to mount components & reuse them. Since, components are not soldered you can change your circuit design at any point without any hassle.

 
Structure of a Bread Board: Basically, a bread board is an array of conductive metal clips encased in a box made of white ABS plastic, where each clip is insulated with another clips. There are a number of holes on the plastic box, arranged in a particular fashion. A typical bread board layout consists of two types of region also called strips. Bus strips and socket strips. Bus strips are usually used to provide power supply to the circuit. It consists of two columns, one for power voltage and other for ground.
 
Socket strips are used to hold most of the components in a circuit. Generally it consists of two sections each with 5 rows and 64 columns. Every column is electrically connected from inside.

 

Breadboard Top View
The above image shows the front view of a general purpose bread board.
 
The back view looks something like this:
 
Breadboard bottom view
The back side area is covered with a thick paper covering which is attached to the casing with the help of glue.
 

Comments (15)

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Submitted by dhruv gupta on Thu, 12/05/2011 - 02:22.

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Submitted by Suraj11121991 on Sat, 21/05/2011 - 10:35.

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Submitted by shikshendra saxena on Sun, 22/05/2011 - 04:54.

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Submitted by sak019 on Tue, 21/06/2011 - 17:40.

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Submitted by kevin8272 on Sat, 13/08/2011 - 17:51.

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Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 19/09/2011 - 00:37.
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it is highly useful in

Submitted by kiran kumar chowdary on Tue, 25/09/2012 - 13:58.

it is highly useful in labs,students can not know about these,it is clear those doughts because it clears basic points.

it is highly useful in

Submitted by kiran kumar chowdary on Tue, 25/09/2012 - 13:59.

it is highly useful in labs,students can not know about these,it is clear those doughts because it clears basic points.

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Submitted by Md.Zakaria Islam on Sun, 07/10/2012 - 11:26.

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Submitted by hamzaraja12 on Tue, 16/10/2012 - 23:22.

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its very usefull during

Submitted by er.msd on Mon, 29/10/2012 - 00:38.

its very usefull during practise work before going on any project

 

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Submitted by bhavin_ec on Thu, 11/04/2013 - 11:51.

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Submitted by bhavin_ec on Thu, 11/04/2013 - 11:52.

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how are connecting strips

Submitted by abhimanyu on Thu, 16/05/2013 - 13:12.

how are connecting strips insulated from each other?

plastic casing has sections

Submitted by sumer_singh on Thu, 16/05/2013 - 13:14.

plastic casing has sections in which the clips are placed. These section serve as insulators