Quote Originally Posted by Joe S. View Post
Hi Everyone,
Here is a now amusing scenerio, I bought several of the push in wire type plastic prototype boards over the last 15 or so years, and have been using them to test pic programs. Yesterday I threw together a serial LCD using one because I wanted to port over some code to a smaller pic, and the serial lcd gave me fits. I knew the code was good, and the pic was new, I messed around for hours. I removed the protoboard from it's backing plate and discovered corrosion directly underwhere my pic data out pins were - moved the whole mess to another proto board and all is as it should be.
Same thing here with the corrosion, as well as the little V shaped trenches that are supposed to hold the wire loosing their tension. The board only works when I push on the whole thing or certain spots. Sometimes it's a crap shoot, sometimes all works good. If I find a certain area is really messed up, I either fill the protoboard's holes in that area with epoxy (or whatever), or throw the whole thing away and buy up a couple new ones.
Kinda makes a guy want to spend the $25K and buy one of those Protomat S62 things. That would be seriously nice...