On Feb 11, 7:40 pm, "Searcher7
There is no existing circuit board involved here. I just need a
support for the terminal blocks, and had intended to use stripboard
providing the hole spacing would allow the pins through. Or perhaps I
can find the stripboard material without holes and make them myself.
Thanks.
Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York
I'm assuming that the pins on your connectors have the standard
spacing of 1/10 inch or multiple thereof.
The prefab perforated board you buy will have hole spacing of 1/10
inch. Get the kind of perfboard that has a copper pad around each
hole; Radio Shack may have it, or order from a hobby house like
allelectronics.com or use one of the big suppliers like digikey or
mouser.
Along with the perfboard, buy yourself a soldering iron and some rosin-
core electronics solder. For your job, the solder diameter isn't
critical. You may be able to go to Radio Shack and buy a little
plastic tube with coil of solder in it instead of a whole half-pound
roll.
I'm only speaking from having glanced at the photo of the terminal
strip you posted, but those pins look like they're meant for inserting
into printed circuit board holes and soldering into place. That is
their purpose. If you can do that, it will work. The other ideas,
like wire wrapping, crimping, drilling etc. are just going to give you
a big ice cream headache. There might be a way to achieve a firm
mechanical mounting for the terminal strips without soldering them to
perfboard, but you will have to continue looking for ideas on that,
because the alternatives mentioned so far are going to be more trouble
for you than simply soldering the pins to perfboard.
Whereupon your terminal strips will have a mechanically sound mounting
substrate, as it were, that you can attach to standoffs or such, and
have a rigid assembly.