page_title: Stripboard
section_title: TriPad
hierarchical_section_title: Stripboard / Prototype boards / TriPad
caption_attribution_description: English: TriPad stripboard. Note that the tracks are broken into three-hole segments. Čeština: univerzální deska plošných spojů.
context_page_description: Stripboard is the generic name for a widely used type of electronics prototyping board characterized by a 0.1 inches regular grid of holes, with wide parallel strips of copper cladding running in one direction all the way across one side of the board. It is commonly also known by the name of the original product Veroboard, which is a trademark, in the UK, of British company Vero Technologies Ltd and Canadian company Pixel Print Ltd. In using the board, breaks are made in the tracks, usually around holes, to divide the strips into multiple electrical nodes. With care, it is possible to break between holes to allow for components that have two pin rows only one position apart such as twin row headers for IDCs.
  Stripboard is not designed for surface-mount components, though it is possible to mount many such components on the track side, particularly if tracks are cut/shaped with a knife or small cutting disc in a rotary tool.
context_section_description: For example, one variant is called a TriPad board. This is similar to stripboard, except that the conductive tracks do not run continuously along the board but are broken into sections, each of which spans three holes. This allows the legs of two or three components to be easily linked together in the circuit conveniently without the need for track breaks to be made. However, in order to link more than three holes together, wire links or bridges must be formed and this can result in a less compact layout than is possible with ordinary stripboard.
caption: TriPad stripboard has strips of copper broken up into three-hole sections
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