macetech
Testing new headers
This was a quick Arduino shield I have been using for a while to control and power ShiftBrites, using normal headers. I asked Eric at Seeedstudio if he could find some good passthrough headers for Arduino shields, and he actually visited a manufacturer in Shenzen and had some 6 pin and 8 pin headers made with a custom 10mm pin length. With the connectors on top of an average thickness PCB, the pins bottom out in the Arduino sockets leaving 1 to 2 mm between the socket and the PCB, enough for a solder joint on the bottom of the board. I replaced the old headers with these samples just to test them out, they're perfect.
Testing new headers
This was a quick Arduino shield I have been using for a while to control and power ShiftBrites, using normal headers. I asked Eric at Seeedstudio if he could find some good passthrough headers for Arduino shields, and he actually visited a manufacturer in Shenzen and had some 6 pin and 8 pin headers made with a custom 10mm pin length. With the connectors on top of an average thickness PCB, the pins bottom out in the Arduino sockets leaving 1 to 2 mm between the socket and the PCB, enough for a solder joint on the bottom of the board. I replaced the old headers with these samples just to test them out, they're perfect.