Temporary vs permanent assembling

Temporary assembling set up

As we are discussing with assembling of electronics schematics, we should know various techniques that are being followed for that in practice. First we should determine whether we want the assembling for an experimental purpose or are we going to use it permanently. The purpose of our building the assembly matters much. If we want the assembly to last for a few days  that is for temporary period and then we are going to dismantle it, then the assembly work should be in temporary nature. In temporary set up there are every chance of reusing the same old used components again and again. This saves our cost and time.

Electronics solderless breadboard 

Mostly prototype builders, experimenters and researchers build the assembly for a temporary period. After the task is over then they dismantle it and the used components would be recycled. The same old components can be reused for some other schematics assembling. Thus the components procuring costs are minimized besides quick building of pro-types are possible. For this temporary set up one should not solder the components in the assembly work. For that technique one need to adopt electronics solderless breadboard. As such circuits can be built, tested, alterations are carried out and dismantled easily and the used components are recovered for reuse. Breadboard assembling safe guards the components from damages.

Limitations of breadboard assembling

But again using breadboards, there are many  limitations and one should consider those aspects while attempting to build on that.  There are advantages as well as disadvantages in assembling circuit schematics on solderless breadboards.

Simple circuit designs can be assembled easily. Contacts points may get loosened if improper size components are inserted in the holes and thereby the assembly becomes unreliable in course of time. Erratic performance of the circuit is possible. Very difficult to build highly complicated circuit designs. High current high voltage circuits cannot be easily built on breadboards. Heavy transformers and big size components cannot be placed on the breadboards. Especially heat generating components like power Transistors, ICs etc cannot be directly used over the breadboards.

If you make wrong connections on the breadboard there are every chances of damaging vital components such as sensitive components like ICs, Transistors, diodes etc. which costs you more. Often novice and untrained students commit such mistakes and thereby the components get damaged.

PCB assembling technique

To overcome these disadvantages electronics enthusiasts prefer and widely adopt PCBs (Printed circuit boards) for their assembly of their projects as of ease of assembling technique. This is quite universally acceptable and almost all endeavour and love to assemble their favourite electronics projects on PCBs only. As such we also manage to build and assemble circuit schematics on PCBs taking its advantages. There are many more advantages of PCB building and we will be benefited much on this permanent set up. 

We shall discuss more on PCBs in our coming posts and in the mean time please give your esteemed comments and suggestions.