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Electronic Lab - Tools and equipments


Tools and Equipments in Electronic Laboratory

1. Breadboard

When building a "permanent circuit" the components can be "grown" together (as in an integrated circuit), soldered together (as on a printed circuit board), or held
together by screws and clamps (as in house wiring). In lab, we want something that is easy to assemble and easy to change. We also want something that can be
used with the same components that "real" circuits use. Most of these components have pieces of wire or metal tabs sticking out of them to form their terminals.

How it Works

The heart of the solderless breadboard is a small metal clip that looks like this:

The clip is made of nickel silver, a material which is reasonal by conductive. Because each of the pairs of fingers is independent, we can insert the end of a wire between any pair without reducing the tension in any of the other fingers. Hence each pair can hold a wire with maximum tension.