Best Quality Breadboard?

I bought a cheap one... instant regret... had problems with the simplest of circuits like 1 LED and 1 resistor (just learning) and 1st lesson learned was that a large % of the pin holes didn't work. Nothing like trying to learn circuits and how they work, with a half dead breadboard... well, I guess I did learn something so... bravo cheap breadboard.

Any love for Bestol brand?

useful, thank you!

You saved me

is there one that has no gaps between the power rail holes? i don't like the diagonal connections you often have to do because of those

I have the AZ-Delivery ones and i love them. The labeling is a bit shifted but you can live with it, the connections are good and it's easy to connect. There's adhesive, if you peel it off, you can get to the metal, and the power rails have no interruptions. You can connect them on all 4 sides with those square connectors and they don't have a backplate but the adhesive is pretty strong.

Thanks...
Can someone update me on a good brand breadboard for newb in 2023?

Wtf how are they gonna take advantage of people who want to actually learn electronics?? I think imma just put in the time to build my own at this point...

3M breadboards are the best. Can't believe you didn't try them. I have several and they are great. You get what you pay for. Stop wasting your money on that junk.

I had no idea there was so much variation with breadboards, thanks a lot! ❤

Thanks brother to provide good knowledge regarding best breadboard.Pakistan

Tx, awesome, rich, no BS review.

Arent split rails necessary for over 1 voltage sources? My circuits class has been doing voltage dividers and measuring current using 2 voltage sources and I am trying to buy boards that can do this

IDK man that jameco has that yellow color that old electronics get after its aged for a bit.

Great review, it helped me to make a purchase decision. Thanks!

Thank you for Lending your hard learned knowledge and opinions. It will allow me to avoid the pitfalls you encountered.

I bought the Jameco with the metal backing plate. Wow! All the connections are SOLID! Worth the extra money! Thanks for the video. Now I can be sure of all my connections.😎

I've been soldering on protoboard because of the poor quality of breadboards

A feature not discussed is the construction material. I have several breadboards that have warped and curved upwards at the ends from plastic shrinkage after a couple years. They aren't flat or straight any more. Some boards do this, and others do not, because the plastics they are made from is different. The ones that are curved up are annoying to use now because 40 pin dips and adapter pcb's don't even fit well any more because the chip or socket or pcb is long enough that the curvature makes the pins not line up with the holes just from one end of the chip to another. You can still insert the parts, but they don't lie flat. One real problem is you can no longer use those breadboards as a soldering jig to solder pin headers onto pcbs, if you need the pins to be accurately aligned to plug into something else later.

Contrary to the rave reviews on on EEVblog forums, Reddit and elsewhere, I would highly advise against purchasing the Assembly Specialists (same as 3M) breadboards. Required insertion force for a 0.6mm pin is just a hair over 1kg. That's not a typo -- it's absolutely bonkers. If you abuse a terminal -- reinserting a pin repeatedly and wiggling it up and down -- you can get that down to around 300g. You're going to have a really, really bad time trying to get solid core wire, resistors, etc to not buckle and fold over well before they insert.

Going to give the BusBoard a go, will report back later.

Thank you. I've decided to learn about repairing electronics and and learning as I go, so this helped me a lot and saved me from making a rookie mistake.

Thanks for your great review. it has bin very helpful. The only brand i can get is the BusBoard can't seem to find the Jameco Electronics one. But the BusBoard is good enough. Going to buy 2 from each BB830 and BB400.. and i think one BB1460 not because i need it but i think it's fun to have a big one and shipping is 7 euro so i had better make sure i have enough.

Your Video have been very good for me thanks alot to make these informations public. I sent all my crappy breadboard to the trash and I got Jameco it's really great

wow thank you, i'm in love with electronics... so when i would be bigger i would use your recommended ones... but i'm still a kid

the reason they cut in the middle is so you can have 5V on the one side and 12v on the other side. some design should never be tested on a breadboard because of lot of there capacity or current / Voltage value .

i have a few breadboards from china and they are sh... and i have also two the best quality breadboard and one is made in europe and another one is japanese! And they are perfect even after 1 year of excesive using! But they are 2 or 3 times more expensive than Chinese ones but the cost of frustration has some limits too!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wish WB102 bredboard

Great review, thank you!

Just ordered a jameco, thanks man. I wanted to murder myself with a murder stick after using these two cheap breadboards I had lying around.

I'm using the worst one in this list, and yeah, no back panel, some connection is bad. but i think it may suit for student purpose like me. This breadboard thing is just like electronic toy :Đ.

Good luck finding any of those in Europe...

I agree the Elegoo breadboards are not good. I thought they looked good quality because they come in printed cardboard boxes, but the connections are too loose.

I don't think if I'm able to find any of these brands in Iran, but your precise criterions helped me so much, THANKS.

Very helpful for a beginner like me , thanks

Super review, thanks. But Jameco, unfortunately is unavailable in france (and i suppose in europe). Ouinnnn !

There needs to be lots more folks like you on the Internet. That's the kind of info we designers and experimenters can appreciate. Thanks so much.

My breadboard did not come with back plate and power rails are interrupted

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SUPERBBB!!!

Noo! I have ordered $25 in breadboards. If i had found this last week, i wouldn't have done that. 😭 I was surprised that Adafruit would make something in bad quality

Please try 3M breadboards.

I'm having many of these problems with my current breadboard. It's about to go in the trash.

I need to put the link to this for any Super Starter kit I review.

Great advice. I have a love hate relationship with breadboards, because there are so many crap ones out there. Every project I ever tried building on them turned out to have a problem with the board rather than my own work.

I'd be interested to see the frequency performance comparison between the two you recommended. Keysight Labs did a video on one kind and found they perform decently up to 100 MHz, but it depends heavily on the wiring you use. Could also be interesting to know the resistive between contacts. Not that I would recommend putting high voltage in any of these....

I often feel like the world of breadboards is still in the 1900s.

There's a lot of room for improvement and it could be a good business opportunity for those of us who want more from their breadboards.

I somehow missed this review before I did my own research and bought the Jameco WBU-204-R. It looks to be the same as the 202-R in your review but with a large base plate and binding posts. I really hope the quality of the connections is the same as you reviewed.

Late to the party, but I'll add some comments anyway... I've noticed that there can also be a variation in the power rail dimensions. Amongst my several breadboards, some measure 0.100" (Jameco Valuepro WBR-202-R) between '+' rail and '-' rail, while others are 0.150" ( older E&L Instruments SK-10). I only noticed this recently when I built a 5V brreadboard power supply that is designed to connect into the top and bottom power rails, straddling the board vertically. In either case, the PS as-built did not fit; with the Jameco it was because the power rails top-to-bottom dimension did not match (1.800" vs. 1.750", with the E&L it was because the pitch of the power rail '+' and '-' was not standard 0.100" but 0.150". I also have other breadboards (Archer/Radio Shack) that have only one row per power rail. I have one breadboard that accepts the PS exactly. So many variations!

So sad that here in South America they only have the terrible generic ones from china and literally no other option. Most sellers don't even ship here and when they do the shipping is super expensive :(

I like Circuit-test

Great review, thank you!

the test of a quality pinboard does it connect a resistor to a led reliably, gently shake the component . If the led blinks the breadboard is NOT reliable . This is the most important test . the rest of his points don't count