I’ve purchased a Yukon host board and proto-module and am struggling to find any pin-headers or pin-strips that are as low profile as the ones used on these boards, and can’t find their part numbers anywhere on the website. I want to make my own modules but can’t find any pin-strips that would have a mating height of 4.5mm. Would anyone be able to help with this?
Thanks in advance!
Hi @Alecct-exi,
We have the headers on Yukon custom made, so you’ll be unlikely to find exact matches in small quantities from general component suppliers I’m afraid.
We have thought a few times about selling the surface mount headers on out store for people such as yourself, but it would have to be in a decent enough quantity to justify the admin involved in adding a new product line.
What sort of quantity would you find acceptable?
I mulled over making custom breakouts at one stage too, I hadn’t realised that your headers were custom. I’m honestly not sure how many I’d use, but I’d probably pick up a bag of 5-10 sets without much thought, just in case.
Ah I see, I hadn’t expected them to be fully custom! It would only be for small quantities unfortunately, I wouldn’t expect to need more than 50 of them. Would it be possible to do a one-off purchase of these from yourselves without the need for them to be listed on your store?
I’ve checked with the shop team, and those sort of numbers (given the amount of customers who would be interested) is sadly not enough to set them up as a store item, and purchases directly without them being listed is complicated for our system.
If you’re really interested in getting some, the easiest thing to do would be to add a note the next time you order from us (this may need you to email support), and we can throw in a few tens.
Our internal code for the part is 100872 if you can reference that and say how many you’d like.
Yeah, I appreciate that wasn’t likely to be enough. Was there a particular reason you got them custom made instead of using off-the shelf? Were the commercial versions just not compact enough?
@Shoe Often at the quantities we need to order in for our assembly lines, off-the-shelf is just buying the product some company asked a factory to make, which they sell on with a markup. So we go to the factories directly.
In this case we needed a connector that was small and with enough pins (hence the 2mm pitch) and had a height that worked with the metal standoffs that we were able to source.
Or at least I think that’s how it went. Yukon was in development for several years before launching to be fair.