An empty 3-way XH 2.5mm wire housing, the plug half of the JST-XH style connector used on RC LiPo balance leads, 3D printer boards and many sensor modules. It has no terminals fitted, so you add XH crimp terminals to your own wire and click them in. It plugs onto our XH 2.5mm 3-pin PCB header and any other 3-pin XH header.
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Per unit ordered. Empty, with no terminals or wire.
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Wiring & getting started
- Get terminals and a crimper
You need three XH 2.5mm female crimp terminals (the JST type is SXH-001T-P0.6, for 28 to 22 AWG wire with 0.9 to 1.9mm insulation) and a crimper made for small open-barrel terminals, such as the SN-28B type. Dupont terminals are a different shape and will not lock in.
- Crimp each wire
Strip a short length so the bare wire sits in the front barrel and the insulation in the rear barrel, then crimp both. Tug each one to check it holds.
- Click the terminals in from the back
Push each terminal into its cavity from the flanged end until it clicks. It only goes in one way up, so if it stops short, turn it over rather than forcing it. Pull gently on the wire to confirm it has locked.
- Plug it onto the header
Line up the two ribs on the housing with the two slots in the header's wall and push straight on. It only fits one way round, so the wire order you crimp is the order you get on the pins.
Note: On a balance lead, match the wire order to the battery before you crimp. The plug only goes on one way, so a lead crimped in the wrong order cannot be fixed by flipping it and can short a cell.