13 July 2024

Water-Cooled Breadboards

From Wikipedia, A breadboard, solderless breadboard, or protoboard is a construction base used to build semi-permanent prototypes of electronic circuits.

Unlike a perfboard or stripboard, breadboards do not require soldering or destruction of tracks and are hence reusable.

For this reason, breadboards are also popular with students and in technological education.

A variety of electronic systems may be prototyped by using breadboards, from small analog and digital circuits to complete central processing units (CPUs).

OK, this post is a quick introduction to water-cooled breadboards, which may be a little unfamiliar to many beginners and hobbyists!


Thorlabs' Water-Cooled Breadboards are versions of their anodized aluminum breadboards that have been plumbed to accept a water or coolant supply.

They feature a standard 1" (25 mm) hole pattern and are ideal for applications involving sensors, detectors, lasers, LEDs, or other apparatuses that may require temperature stabilization.

These water-Cooled breadboards can be used in applications requiring cooling or heating.

  • Cool or Heat Work Surface via Internal Water Channels (0 to 60 °C)
  • Matte Black-Anodized Finish Reduces Reflections
  • Through-Tapped Mounting Holes

Below is the image of Throlab's MBC3030/M Water-Cooled Breadboard (300 mm x 300 mm x 12.7 mm, M6 Taps).

More details, drawings, and documents are available. Click Here → MBC3030/M


Maybe we will go into this a little more in a later post. See you then!

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