Breadboard-friendly power connectors?

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Hey all,

I have a couple of the connector thingies shown in the attached pic- sorry for quality but it shows the problem which is that they don't fit breadboard power rails.

I know I can jam the wires into the holes, but that doesn't work with stranded wire. What do others do for power connections to breadboard? (No electronics required- I've just hacked an ATX PSU so I have various voltages (3v3, 5v and 12v) available.)

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Yeah I was thinking something along those lines... blob of Araldite should do it.

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  1. Mount the protoboard on a piece of plastic then add binding posts. Use a wire from the posts to the protoboard.
    posts
  2. Use male headers on the protoboard. Solder wires to and use female headers on the male :sweat_smile:
  3. Make small PCB with male headers on the bottom. Mount the terminal block you show on the top of the PCB.
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Make small PCB

As the lady on 9gag says, "Ain't nobody got time for that!" 8)

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As the lady on 9gag says, "Ain't nobody got time for that!"

Or use:

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Or use:
Stripboard - Wikipedia

Now that I have....

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JimboZA:
I know I can jam the wires into the holes, but that doesn't work with stranded wire.

Then use solid core wire - or use a thin-enough gauge of stranded wire that you can tin the ends (and the tinned section will still fit).

I typically do one of the above, and use alligator clip jumpers from the PSU to the board. I generally will run the inputs to the positive and negative rails on opposite sides (so the alligator clips have less of a chance of shorting), then jumper on the opposite end of the board the other rails.