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Understanding the Use of Breadboards for Electrical Circuits, Lab Reports of Mechanical Engineering

An introduction to the use of breadboards for assembling electrical circuits without the need for soldering or bulky clips. Learn about the electrical connections on a breadboard, its division into halves, and the importance of maintaining a continuous power-ground connection.

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Uploaded on 07/30/2009

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Download Understanding the Use of Breadboards for Electrical Circuits and more Lab Reports Mechanical Engineering in PDF only on Docsity! Reading a breadboard    Breadboards  are  useful  for  making  connections  between  different  electrical  components  and  assembling  electrical  circuits  for  experimenting,  without  having  to  solder  connections or use bulky clips. For this reason, they are quite handy and we encourage you to  use them as often as possible.     In order to use a breadboard, you must remember a few things. Any elements touching  the  same  piece  of  metal  (for  instance  a  row  of  the  breadboard)  will  have  an  electrical  connection,  the  same  as  if  the  ends  of  the  components  were  physically  touching.  The  breadboard  is  divided  into  two  halves. On  each  side,  are  two  colored  (red  and  blue)  strips.  These strips are often used for power (red) and ground (blue), because of their convenience to  reach  the  rest of  the board,  though  this does not have  to be  the case. This  is how all of  the  diagram  pictures  in  the  lab were  set  up.  The  strips  in  the  center  sections  of  the  board  are  connected  to  each  other  perpendicular  to  the  red  and  blue  strips,  in  sets  of  5  holes wide.  Typically, this is the area in which the rest of the circuit is assembled, though again, this is not  necessarily  the  case.    Remember  that  there must  be  a  continuous  connection  from  power  through  the  circuit  to ground  in order  for  current  to  flow.  In other words, when assembling  your circuit, don’t forget that it must be connect to power and ground!    Fig. 1—A breadboard  
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