Soldering Male Header Pins

Right angle headers can be useful if you want the bottom of a board to be flat and not have pins sticking out of it.

Soldering male header pins.

But we can t so we re making the best of it and selling them. The female end of a breadboard cable will grab onto a male header pin and make a reliable connection. If they are not you can try to reheat the header pin and adjust the header s alignment. If you re like me and i think you are you find that soldering wires to male headers is very annoying.

Once the pin has warmed up for a second or two the solder will melt and wick around the pin and the board. This item keeyees 30pcs 2 54mm 40 pin headers prototype pcb board soldering pins male and female single row connector for arduino shield gikfun 7 kinds of 2 54mm breakaway pcb board 40 pin header kit for arduino proto shield pack of 48pcs ek8402. Tip not tinned properly. This 2x20 pin strip male header is a great way to add pins to 2x20 0 1 holes in a pcb.

Sit the board on top of the headers with the pins going though the holes in the board. The holes in pcbs are big and intended to have header pins or wires soldered in them. Extra long female headers could be for soldering onto a shield that is then put onto the female header pins of a microcontroller. If you want to save space like milliways suggests indeed cutting one end off the breadboard cable and stripping and soldering right to the pcb works well.

This is fairly self explanatory but place the soldering iron on one side of the pin and the solder on the other. That s optional but it s a great way to make sure the pin headers will be perpendicular to the board and parallel to each other making it easy to insert the board elsewhere. Solder cup pin male headers wire housings are available at mouser electronics. First of all if you leave the tip on the header for too long it will melt the plastic holding it bringing it out of alignment so john fattaruso developed this interesting way of soldering to leads.

They re also perfect companion piece to our 2x20 pin right angle female header. The male headers snap apart easily with a pair of pliers. Grab the soldering iron with your soldering hand and tack on one pin. If we could eat headers we d have them for breakfast lunch and dinner.

To solder male pin headers to a board first put the pin headers in a breadboard. Mouser offers inventory pricing datasheets for solder cup pin male headers wire housings.