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|   February 13, 2007 at 12:21 AM

I spent a couple of nights trying to get a circuit working only to find there is a break on one of the power busses. The ground on the upper bus was broken halfway through.

Go through with a continuity tester if there are any issues or rip off the foam on the back to check for breaks.

Solid breadboard otherwise, but not wide enough for the bluetooth DIP module.

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|   May  4, 2009 at 10:19 AM

The adhesive on the feet is terrible. The rubber feet are pretty much useless with the included adhesive.

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|   May  9, 2009 at 3:00 AM

I agree with mrRed. In my case, the adhesive fell off the feet before they arrived.

Without the feet, the breadboard does not lay flat.

My next order with be with someone else.

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|   June 15, 2009 at 10:57 PM

All 4 of the power buses were separated halfway through directly above 30 line mark on both sides. Buyers should be warned before using as I suspect this is a common problem. Also, the negative and positive power buses were connected on one side. Continuity testing is a must before using, but its easy to fix and still a good buy.

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|   July 13, 2009 at 11:19 AM

The separation at 30 is by design. It allows you the option of having two different voltages on your bus. They point this out in the beginning electronics tutorials.

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|   December 31, 2009 at 6:49 PM

Actually, I'm testing the continuity on mine right now, and only one of the positive buses are disconnected. The other commenter mentioned that one of his ground buses were disconnected. I suspect it's just a crappy breadboard (as evidenced by the rest of the design).

So, if any of you are buying this, make sure to __test all of your power buses for continuity__.

Final warning: 20-gauge wire is a little too snug for this board - you'll find yourself manhandling it a little more than you'd like to get the wires in. Stick to 22-gauge or thinner.

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|   January 28, 2010 at 10:59 PM

The 2 power buses on my board near the binding posts are fully connected. The 2 on the other side are split in the middle. I'm not sure if this is just bad manufacturing or an intentional "feature".

I spent 3 hours trying to fix my project before realizing it was the breadboard that was broken.

Also, the sticky feet were not sticky at all. The adhesive had long peeled off before I got it. I used some sticky-tak to put them on.

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|   September 28, 2009 at 10:23 AM

Plus: Cool 80s font. (Not as pictured.)

Minus: The adhesive on the feet... time to break out the Gorilla Glue.

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|   October 23, 2009 at 10:01 PM

Overall this is a pretty nice breadboard. The back plate is metal so it is pretty solid and durable, the screw terminals are nice as well. The power buses have a split at the halfway point. This is part of the design, if you want to use the entire bus just use a short wire to jump both halves together. It is pretty useful for a 12V battery bus to run motors and a 5V logic bus from the Arduino's regulator to run LED's, chips, etc on the same breadboard. The only issue was that the adhesive on the rubber feet is terrible. The feet themselves are nice, just the paper had already been removed and the adhesive wasn't sticky at all when I took mine out of the package. I just used double stick tape and it holds great.

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|   December 15, 2009 at 0:34 AM

Could we get these without the silly metal plate please? And also the smaller version (height / 2). That would make SparkFun the place where I'll by breadboards too! :)

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|   December 27, 2009 at 5:35 PM

As JLC says... Can we get just the breadboard?
I would like to lock several together on my workbench.

I have the radioshack version, but it is now discontinued.

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|   January  2, 2010 at 8:27 PM

I agree, I'd rather just have the breadboard.