Hilitchi 635 Pcs 40 Pin 2.54mm Pitch Single Row Pin Headers, Connector Housing Female, Male/Female Pin Kit for Dupont Wire Connectors

Used with IWISS Crimping Tools for Dupont Professional Pin Compression Ratcheting Modular Insulated Terminal Crimper Pin 2.54mm 3.96mm 28-18AWG 0.5-1.0mm2 with Wire-electrode Cutting Die. Worked great on a variety of wire sizes and types. Mostly I'll be using Cat5e and Cat6, because it's cheap and plentiful.As described. Delivered promptly.Using this for hacking with the Raspberry Pi. The connections work with the pin spacing on the Pi and solderless breadboards. The other popular connector type is JST Ltvystore 1220PCS 2.54MM JST-XHP 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 Pin housing and Pin Pedestal Housing Kit, Dupont Male Female Pin Header Terminals Connector Adapter Plug Set with Clear Plastic Box, which I'll get next.

Very nice kit in a great container. Has all parts needed to replace pinned components on pcbs

Container closes fine and stays shut. There is a good variety of housings that handle male and female connectors The small tab that holds the connector in works fine after repeated uses. There are straight and right angle headers. The male and female connectors are okay but could have been better. I bought a set of Elegoo EL-CP-004 120pcs Multicolored Dupont Wire 40pin Male to Female, 40pin Male to Male, 40pin and cut the wires off as needed to insert into the housings instead of trying to crimp the connectors. Crimping the supplied connectors is not easy. It is easier just to get the wires that are precrimped. So I mainly bought this kit for the housings and the header pins. I later bought a high end crimper and have recently crimped a number of the connectors and they work fine. If I could get the high end Amp connectors, I would, but these work okay.

Never need a Dupont connector again. This kit has a range of single connector headers plus pins. After some practice (and a suitable crimper, sold separately) you can get custom cables without too much work, but it does take some practice to get the crimping and insertion down. Which leads me to my only complaint: the included pins and fairly soft and far too few. I recommend buying some more robust pins both for practice and better results if you get this kit.

Nice set. Works well with suggested crimp tool. However the math appears to be wrong on the number of connector housings vs. female connectors. 150 female connectors are no where near the required quantity if you use these to connect to male headers. My math calculates out to more than 1000 female connectors would be needed to use all the supplied connector housings. I would purchase more female connectors from Hilitchi, except Amazon doesn't appear to sell the female pins separately. I did find some Coobl female pins I am ordering. I hope they will fit the connector housing supplied in the kit.