SparkFun Electronics - Break Away Female Headers

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Break Away Female Headers

sku: PRT-00115

Description: Single row of 40-holes, female header. Can be cut to size with a pair of wire-cutters. Standard .1" spacing. We use them extensively in the Olimex development boards. They mate very well with break away headers.

Please note: You will probably lose one pin with each cut.

Pricing

	70 in stock backorder allowed

$1.50	price
$1.35	10-99 (10% off)
$1.20	100+ (20% off)

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	by Member #9307 +1.9 \| May 25, 2007 at 8:32 PM +0.78
You lose a pin at each cut, there is only a thin wall between adjacent pins. Keep that in mind when ordering.

	by Plusea +7.1 \| October 10, 2008 at 5:25 PM +1.5
Exactly. I would not really call these "breakaway" since one can not snap them apart as should be possible.

	by ArduinoFun.com +4.1 \| May 27, 2009 at 6:10 PM 0
I wish SparkFun sold them in 8 and 6 rows for arduino. The best thing I have found to cut them down with is a small jewelry hacksaw.

	by gezepi +1.8 \| June 12, 2009 at 10:40 PM +0.15
I was able to save all pins when I used an exacto knife heated with a lighter to cut through the plastic more easily. Even then, however, I was quite lucky the one pin didn't fall out.

	by rotormind +3.1 \| June 28, 2009 at 0:41 AM 0
Possible to get height dimension with any precision?

	by tlied2 +6.2 \| August 1, 2009 at 9:09 PM 0
Just meansured one, got 8.6mm for the plastic part (not counting pin length)

	by Trav +1.4 \| August 1, 2009 at 4:53 AM 0
I'm also after the height dimension of the pins, I'm thinking of making a triple layer PCB (each PCB is double sided) using these to stack and connect the PCB's between eachother

	by Trav +1.4 \| August 1, 2009 at 4:59 AM 0
Sorry not the pin height the actual header height

	by datapolo +2.4 \| October 10, 2009 at 1:22 PM +0.27
Would be much better supplied in multiples of 2 (2,4,6,8 etc.) and a single the you could combine them as necesary. It is time consuming as well as wasteful to cut these and make any effort to make the cut end look good.