Tech: What Is VEROBOARD!!!

Veroboard is a brand of stripboard, a pre-formed circuit board material of copper strips on an insulating bonded paper board used to make electronic circuits, where some of the electrical connections are formed by strips of copper on the underside of the board. Veroboard is a printed circuit board that’s designed with rows of copper tracks with holes drilled in then for electronic components to be soldered to construct electronic circuits. It is characterized by a 0.1 inch regular grid of holes, with wide parallel strips of copper cladding running in one direction all the way across one side of the board. In using the board, breaks are made in the tracks, usually around holes, to divide the strips into multiple electrical nodes. The 0.1 inch (2.54 mm) spacing allows sockets for ICs. The components are usually placed on the plain side of the board, with their leads protruding through the holes. The leads are then soldered to the copper tracks on the other side of the board to make the desired connections, and any excess wire is cut off. The continuous tracks may be easily and neatly cut as desired to form breaks between conductors using a 5 mm twist drill, a hand cutter made for the purpose, or a knife.

VEROBOARD ADVANTAGES

• They cost significantly less than PCB’s.
• It is easier to modify a circuit on Veroboard rather than a PCB.
• Veroboard is easily available. PCB’s are impossible or at best hard to obtain for older projects.
• Making your own PCB can prove to be difficult. You’ll need some extra kit and chemicals and then there’s the drilling to contend with!

VEROBOARD DISADVANTAGES

• a veroboard layout makes a circuit more unreliable.
• Building errors are more likely using veroboard.
• veroboards make construction a lot slower and time-consuming.
• Circuit layouts are very large.