Vectorboard mounting question

[Nat]

Hello, I plan to mount my swtiches and leds on vectorboard and I'd like to know what's the best way to do it, like on this photo :

Would it be possible to have a photo of the other side of the board ?  Would help a lot,

Thanks,

Nat

[Steven_C]

this looks like a vgectorboard made by TK, from before he had access to PCB's.

Have a look at my midibox photos in the gallery, or also in the midibox of the week thread, to see how I mounted the LED's and buttons, I ran wires straight from the back of the vectorboard to header pins on the PCB's

good luck, from Steve ;)

[Nat]

But how does the components stay on the board ? Only with the wire or with some glue ?

Thanks,

Nat

[TK.]

They are soldered to the copper pads on the opposite side:

Best Regards, Thorsten.

[Nat]

Thanks :)

The vector board at my store doesn't have any solder pads that's why I didn't get it ..

[Steven_C]

;) he he, now you get it ;)

Thorsten, what is that monster you are building?? Is it like one of the new mackie control for plugins?

[gillesdeshays]

Hi Nat !

a tip for you :

http://www.midibox.org/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=tips;action=display;num=1060043167

8)

[Nat]

Thanks ;) I get it now, I'll just have to find some vector board of the good size with solderpad....  the only stuff I see hear is without pads or too small :(

[Steven_C]

Nat, Let me know if you can't find anything local, I could post you some, should be able to post pieces in an envelope to you!

[Nat]

Cool thanks, i'll try to find some here but if I'm in desperate need of it i'll ask you :)

[Guest den_Juin]

What's the cost of these things at your local store?

Here it is 5euro for 160x120... that's pretty expensive if you want to mount all your pots and encoders this way.

[Nat]

I don't know for steve but the stuff here is around 1$ for 20cm*20cm.  Problem is that I can't find anything larger than that :(

[Guest PHX]

Hi Nat,

Are you in the US ? If that's the case, could you tell me where are you finding such cheap vector board ?

Tks,

Richard

[Nat]

I'm in Canada, it,s a store named addison

www.addison-electronique.com

[Steven_C]

very cheap,

us aussies are definately getting ripped off down here... my vectorboard to mount buttons on LC cost around $30 Australian, from Dick Smith!

[nILS]

Reichelt /Germany) charges:

50x100mm : 0.61 EUR

100x100mm : 1.10 EUR

200x100mm : 2.05 EUR

500X100mm : 5.00 EUR