diagram to breadboard

[ghostman11]

i am new to electronics and very keen to learn, i have been unable to find very much on how you go from a circuit diagram to decideing where to put the components and breaks etc on a breadboard, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Actualy i think i mean stripboard!!! sorry for the confusion

 

[Electronworks]

When i started (back in the days when the earth was still cooling) I was told to layout the breadboard accroding to the circuit diagram (components on the left of the cct dig, put on the left of the breadboard etc).

Obviously you want your inputs and outputs close to the edge of the board (for ease of access) and as long as you are not doing anything high frequency, it should not matter about track length.

Where you cut the tracks should be obvious

 

[ghostman11]

thanks for that, i guess its a case of trial and error i to remember the days when the earth was cooling! looks like weve come full circle now

 

[nigelwright7557]

I always lay my breadboard out in the same shape as the schematic and that makes it much easier to layout and debug and test.

 

[ghostman11]

Thanks for the replys, incase there are any other noobs like me out there i managed to find a realy helpful walkthru of laying out boards.

Stripboard

hope this is of help to someone else

 

[indulis]

It depends on what your building. For example, hi impedance inputs (like an opamp) should have a small loop area, especially if there is anything else in the circuit that can generate a field. The larger the loop area, the more susceptible it is to pick-up. For signals that carry “higher” current, the rule-of-thumb is “short and fat”. If the circuit is mixed-signal, you might consider separating the analog and digital sections