Bread Board; Simple But Very Useful


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I am back with a new post. Sorry guys, I had told you that I will be posting the next post on binary conversion but I’m not. If you want post on binary/octal/BCD/Hex conversion then post a comment or mail me on my Gmail ID, sorry guys. So coming back to today’s post, today I am going to tell you about a device which is very widely used in electronic circuit designing.
Just think you are going to implement a circuit which you found or you designed. You bring all the required components like transistor, resistors, ICs, etc. and soldered it on PCB (Printed Circuit Board); You will get PCB of varied color and size with and without particular circuit printed on it. So you soldered it on PCB and then when you test it you found out that it’s not working, all the components are wasted. There are very rare chances that you will dis-solder a component and you can use it again in other circuit. It was all a waste of money and time. So before soldering it on PCB you can test your circuit. Yes you can test your circuit on a device known as Bread Board.
Bread Board

The picture you see above is a Bread Board. It can be defined as a solder-less device for temporary prototyping of electronic device. It is solder-less which means there is no requirement of soldering to connect the components and run the circuit. It can be used as a testing device as is you found a defect/error in a circuit you can easily undo it. You might me wondering how this thing connect components with each other, what is used to make it, how we can use it? All the questions will be answered here.
What’s inside of a Bread Board?..
If you tear off the back of a bread board you will be able to see the construction of a bread board. 
If you tear its back then it will look as shown in above image. It is made using two material: An insulator like plastic and a conductor i.e. metal. Plastic/Insulator is the shell of the bread board. Shell is provided with holes in which you will insert terminals of your components. Inside this shell there are metal strips. Metal strips are arranged such that below every hole there is a part of the strip. When you insert terminal of the components, it touches the metal strip and the connection is created between them.
 Alignment of the metal strip in Bread Board.
A diagram of Bread Board is shown below:
It is very easy to say from the diagram that the above Bread Board is divided in to Major Four Parts: A, B, C and D. To make you understand easier I will use different color for different metal strips. So I am modifying the above diagram so that it will be easier to explain.


·         Section A:
Section A is further divided in to two rows and eight columns. In Section A the metal strip is arranged in horizontal manner. So we can say that in Section A, holes are horizontally short or connected with each other. But take a look at the diagram; 1st four are red, 2nd four are purple, 3rd four are blue and 4th four are green. This says that the four red are short or connected to each other by a single metal strip; same goes for purple, blue and green, but the four red and four purple are not connected with each other. In other words, the 1st four holes are short, the 2nd four are short but the 1st four and the 2nd four are not connected with each other. Simply we can say that row-row, column-column and row-column are not connected with each other and holes in a row/column are connected with each other. So if you have to connect a resistor in a bread board then you have to insert a terminal in hole of a row/column and other terminal in another row/column.
·         Section B:
Section B is further divided in to one rows and forty four column, no. of holes may differ in different Bread Board. In section B the metal strip is arranged in vertical manner. So holes are vertically short/connected via single metal strip. Look at the holes, the same color holes say that they are short/connected. Row and columns are not connected to each other. So all red in section B are connected to each other but reds and purples are not connected to each other. Same goes on to the last column.
·         Section C:
Same as Section B
·         Section D:
Same as Section A

That’s all for today hope you like it. Next time we will see how to make a circuit in a bread board and I will try if possible, I will be uploading a video regarding it. If you have any query in today’s post then comment or mail me on my Gmail account and if you want a post on binary/octal/hex conversion then also comment it below or mail me on below email address. Follow us on our Facebook page to get latest update and also subscribe our youtube channel for more knowledge.

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