Soldering Male Header Pins

If you re like me and i think you are you find that soldering wires to male headers is very annoying.

Soldering male header pins. If this is not happening there are several possible causes. Tip not tinned properly. 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. 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.

To solder male pin headers to a board first put the pin headers in a breadboard. This 2x20 pin strip male header is a great way to add pins to 2x20 0 1 holes in a pcb. After tacking one pin for each header you will want to ensure that the pins are straight and perpendicular to your board. If we could eat headers we d have them for breakfast lunch and dinner.

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. This is fairly self explanatory but place the soldering iron on one side of the pin and the solder on the other. The female end of a breadboard cable will grab onto a male header pin and make a reliable connection. Grab the soldering iron with your soldering hand and tack on one pin.

The holes in pcbs are big and intended to have header pins or wires soldered in them. But we can t so we re making the best of it and selling them. The male headers snap apart easily with a pair of pliers. They re also perfect companion piece to our 2x20 pin right angle female header.

Once the pin has warmed up for a second or two the solder will melt and wick around the pin and the board. If they are not you can try to reheat the header pin and adjust the header s alignment. 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. 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.

Mouser offers inventory pricing datasheets for solder cup pin male headers wire housings. Extra long female headers could be for soldering onto a shield that is then put onto the female header pins of a microcontroller.