BB830 Solderless Plug-in BreadBoard, 830 tie-Points, 4 Power Rails, 6.5 x 2.2 x 0.3in (165 x 55 x 9mm)

For me the tie points have exactly the right amount of holding force for 22-gauge wire. But they also manage to retain the type of resistors that have become common, with very thin leads. This product feels well made, unlike breadboards that are somewhat cheaper. Definitely worth it for me.

I have used a series of cheap, generic, breadboards. I was always troubleshooting the breadboard connections more than I was troubleshooting the circuit. I started to just solder all my circuits together because at least then I knew the electrical connections would be good. I watched a YouTube review that concluded that this was one of the good breadboards, so I bought a couple. The first circuit that I made was an amplitude modulator at 45 MHz. Just a single FET, some biasing resistors and decoupling capacitors. The circuit worked the first time I powered it! I never would have used one of the cheap breadboards for this since it's RF. The resistors even have thin 0.3mm leads that were problematic on the other breadboards. They cost more, but I think they are worth it.

The price of these boards may be 3 times as much (where I could get 3 cheaper boards for the price of 1), however, you get what you pay for. Unlike other breadboards, where it's a gamble on how lose or tight the pins are going to be, where you may have to put your weight into adding a component, and bend pins removing, to having wires just fall out, these are perfect. They have just enough resistance to hold items in, but not too much you are using effort on them. I thought before it was "that's how it goes" when it came to the consistency, and you just had to be lucky to get good ones. But I have learned now there's a difference between a Chinese knock off, and these. Do yourself a favor and save the headaches, pay the money, buy a quality board (and it's not just me saying that either, I was recommended these from multiple sources, all having similar complaints with other purchases).

I bought 4 of these hoping I was getting decent quality at a good price -- I am well pleased. The items arrived sooner than expected in appropriate packaging. The metal plates mentioned were missing BUT, I prefer to buy thin sheet metal plates and attach to wood with screws, then I connect the plate to the Minus Terminal of my Arduino Project which provides a superior Ground Plane. I then mount BB830 on that plate. I've since ordered another 4 of these BB830 Solderless Breadboards. I did find the notches used to fasten them together required a little clearing out of the backside sticky material, but that was done in seconds with little effort. BTW, it appears one can use a knife to disassmble the BB830 and rearrange the rail sections allowing a more custom assembly, I love that! Good Stuff.

So worth the little bit of extra money compared to the cheap alternatives. You can feel the sturdiness immediately. The holes are aligned precisely, microcontrollers and other modules slot in effortlessly. The friction is perfect when inserting wires and leads. Do yourself a favor and get something like this that actually works well.

I've been using breadboards a long time. My first breadboards were the dual-rail, all-white x-y types, so I really dig the quad-rail red-blue things that are popular these days. I have a bunch of breadboards currently, and they all have projects on them, so I needed to get some more. I originally found this board on amazon, and added it to my cart. Then I found the Elenco 9830C for 5 cents cheaper (although, at time of writing this the Elenco boards are 7.11 instead of 7.95). So I ordered 2 Elenco boards and one BB830. I got the Elenco boards a day earlier, and was immediately disappointed to find that the backing was 1) mostly non-adhered (though fixable with some thumb-action) and b) didn't have a double-sided backing. Not a big deal, really, but perhaps notable. A day later (today) I got the BB830. I have them side-by-side right now, and the quality difference is actually significant. 1) The Elenco board is warped where the BB830 is straight. The rails on the Elenco board curve inwards rather flimsily, whereas the BB830 is flat and solid. 2) The print quality of the numbers and letters on the Elenco board is dark, blotchy and still somehow washed out, with whole character segments missing or run together. The same printing on the BB830 is really crisp and clear. It's like a typewriter versus a laser printer. 3) This is not really a quality difference but more of a preference: on the Elenco boards, the letters are lowercase, while on the BB830, they are uppercase. Oddly, I think I prefer the uppercase, although it may be the obvious difference in print quality that is swaying me. 4) The BB830 comes with a padded, double-sided backing. This isn't really a huge deal on its own, but most of the breadboards I already own have this same feature, and it feels better somehow. If the Elenco boards had even the thin adhesive backing fully in place and sealed, I probably wouldn't even bring it up. 5) This should have probably been number one. There is a VERY noticeable difference when plugging in leads (using "premium" jumpers to test, I think 22 gauge). The BB830 has a light-but-firm feeling on entry and then a clean, secure tug. Very smooth. The Elenco boards are tougher to insert leads into and have an almost "rusty", grating feeling when inserting the lead. I've never paid specific attention to these things before, but it makes a huge difference. All told, they both do the job that needs doing, but I already know the BusBoard (distributor? mfgr?) breadboards will last longer and be more pleasant to use. Nitpicks: Elenco has better packaging, although I recommend that it not be a selling point. Elenco also spells breadboard as "bredboard." Um, whatever.

I had some cheaper breadboards and they were had very poor circuit connection. I measured the resistance and the cheap ones were 100x worse that theses. I examined the contact under a microscope and these are visibly a plated copper. The poor contacts did not show as copper, so I do not know what they were made off, but their contact resistance was unacceptable. The BB830 breadboards are definitely worth the extra money - they work.

Das Board wirkt etwas klein (wenn man vorher nur an Lochplatinen rumgespielt hat) hat aber genügend Platz für alle alltäglichen Spielereien. Kontakte fassen ordentlich auch bei dünnen Drähten. Klebestreifen hinten. Wirkt schon durch das Gewicht wertig. Aufdruck deutlich und sauber und lässt sich nicht abkratzen. Kann man bei den Dingern was falsch machen? Recht simples Teil das es schon ab 2,99, mit etwas suchen, gibt. Habe 8.50 mit Prime bezahlt - geht.

This breadboard is pretty amazing. It does almost everything that a breadboard it's suppose to do. Pros: + easy to insert just about anything into it without bending the pins + no loose contacts. Just enough pressure to ensure a good contact + comes with a back plate. + everything is labelled properly Cons: - you can only attach more breadboards on only 2 of 4 sides of it. Do yourself a favor and give these breadboards a chance. And you'll never look back at those other cheap breadboards.

strumento perfetto, funzionante e performante, risponde a quello che mi aspettavo di trovare comodo, poco ingombrante, e ben fatto.. utilissimo

Items all came boxed, no manufacturers details. Quality for these boards is very good. All printing is clear. Contacts within the board have flared openings to allow easy wire/component insertion and grip firmly. Based onthe quality of these I placed a 2nd order.

Es un buen artículo y además el precio es muy bueno. A veces los agujeros donde has de mater los cables son un poco grandes y no coge bien el cable, por lo demás perfecto. Lo dicho ha merecido la pena comprarlo