SMD .100 headers

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Samtec TSM-series headers are nice for putting standard .100" 1- and 2-row headers on surface mount boards. http://samtec.com/technical_specificati … series=TSM

The specific part TSM-136-01-T-DV is 36x2 and can easily be broken down to smaller sizes as required for specific boards.

A surface mount .100 header is particularly nice for those of us who home-fabricate single sided boards and want headers sticking out of the copper side.

For female sockets, SSM looks like the corresponding series, but I haven’t bought any of these yet.

Samtec will ship small orders direct to customers, but maybe sparkfun could find room for this part in their lineup as well.

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Surface mount headers would be nice… Sparkfun?

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I’ve played with SMD headers. They are great when you are making a board at home so you don’t have to drill the holes but I see 2 drawbacks from them:

  1. I’ve had trouble getting great mechanical strength. Accidents happen and a lateral shear can pull them right off - especially 4 and 6 pin ones. A 2 pin header is probably a sitting duck.

  2. they take up more space than TH ones.

Neither of these are killers but you should be aware.