Electronic – special name for stripboard with split tracks

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A friend of mine showed me a project he was working on, and the stripboard he'd soldered to had its tracks split into 3-hole blocks. A little like this:

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(apologies for the terrible ASCII-art)

He can't remember where he got it from, but it looks incredibly useful! I've tried searching my usual sources (Farnell / RS / eBay) but I can't find it.

Does this stuff have a proper name?

Best Answer

When you take a look on Wikipedia, they call it 'TriPad'

[...] 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. [...]

Trying to search with it on Farnell/Digikey/RS doesn't bring up any hits. Here they doesnt seem to give this kind of board a special name. Digikey gives you a filter option '3 Hole Pad' thou.