What This Breakaway Header Does in a Board-to-Board or Cable Assembly
The gold-plated mating surface (30 µinch) and tin-plated solder posts (100 µinch) balance signal integrity with cost — the gold handles repeated mating cycles in clean environments, while the tin post wets well during wave solder.
Unshrouded vs. Shrouded — When to Pick This Header
Unshrouded headers expose the pins for easy probing and low-profile mating, but offer no keying or strain relief. For a closer gold-plating match, the 1376779-2 also carries a 3 A rating and gold mating finish, but at 8 µinch thickness — a quarter of this part's 30 µinch. If you need the higher cycle life that 30 µinch gold provides, 9-146277-0-04 is the right call.
