Housing Only — Plan Your Crimp Build
The glass-filled PBT body handles -55°C to 125°C, so it's at home underhood or on a factory floor.
This housing mates with a 2-row, 0.100" pitch male header — typically a TE HE13/HE14 series pin header with 16 positions. The crimp contacts you'll need are the female socket terminals from the same HE13/HE14 family; the housing is keyed to accept only the correct contact orientation. The free-hanging (in-line) mount means the housing sits on the wire harness, not on the board, so you terminate the wires first, then mate to a board-mounted header. A standard hand crimp tool or semi-automatic press with the correct applicator is used for the contacts — the housing itself requires no tooling beyond contact insertion.
Build Note: Contacts Not Included
The listing note says it plainly — contacts are not included. This is a bare housing. If you're filling a BOM line for a harness assembly, make sure the crimp terminal part number is on a separate line. The 16 cavities are arranged in two rows spaced 0.100" apart, matching the standard 2.54mm grid. The black colour is the natural PBT material, not a coating — it's consistent across the series and won't fade or chip in service.