If You Buy The Wrong Breadboard You'll Regret It

It took me a fair amount of struggling to understand what was going on, but finally discovered that I had defective products.
The wrong solderless breadboards can be difficult, or impossible to work with -- I show you why.
Buying from China is tempting because of their low prices but products can be cheap knock-offs that will cause you breadboarding headaches and other problems with bread boards. So not only do you have to wait many weeks for delivery from China, chances are good that you'll wind up with breadboard problems.
I have purchased a lot of electronic stuff from China and have been very happy, but not with these.
I got lucky with a couple vendors from China, and got good breadboards. But at least half of the ones I bought were the cheap knock-offs that I had to just throw in the trash.
The ones have all been great that I've purchased from U.S. vendors. I don't know the brands of some of them, but I do have a couple Elenco breadboards and love them. They're high quality and one has terminal posts to connect a power supply. Check out Elenco breadboards and their other products on Amazon amzn.to/3sxIlRC
And search Amazon for Inland which is another big brand that I have purchased breadboards and other electronic accessories from.
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[@MakeAnimatronics]

The wrong solderless breadboards can be difficult, or impossible to work with -- I show you why.

[@ByteMeCompletely]

The photos on Amazon have NO relationship to the product you receive. Amazon must remove unscrupulous sellers.

[@photoniccannon2117]

Elegoo isn't an Elenco knockoff. They make decent stuff, I've bought a number of their products and have never had an issue with them.

[@gregor.potrebujes]

I just lost 5 hours figuring out what I did wrong... turns out it's bad contacts in that shitty breadboard! UART communications seem to be very sensitive to bad contacts...

[@mea2915]

Nice. Thank you. I'll watch out for those when next I'm shopping for boards.

[@marinehm]

Excellent info. Thanks!

[@user-hn9gq5dz7g]

Yo pensaba que en esos orificios , ivan solo integrados.❤😂

[@user-hi8zt4rc1g]

I don't know what is wrong with my circuit, but if I touch certain components it will suddenly work. At this point I think it is the breadboard, I'm using the small one that came with the arduino. Probably cheap crap. Maybe I'll just soldier everything together to rule out the circuit design, which I am basically just copying from online

[@ReyciclismoMTB]

Correct about, my vintage 3m fancy board, is better than anything else I own, the one the came with my Bell & howell console 80 is also great, The one with my arduino kit, is crap!! By the way great videos.

[@ByteMeCompletely]

Cheap Chinese rip-offs.