non-shunting jumpers?

[Chuck Guzis]

On 10/22/20 11:30 AM, brian--- via cctalk wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Oddball question here: has anyone ever seen a way to cap off or protect
> standard 0.1" pin header jumpers? Maybe there exist jumper plugs that *don't
> *conduct across the two pins? I'm looking at a piece of hardware that has
> some jumper pins on top of the PC board and I'd like to protect against
> anything accidentally making contact.  I have seen surface mount 0.05 pitch
> pin headers come from their manufacturer with protective caps, but I
> haven't been able to find anything to apply to 0.1" pin headers that I
> could by aftermarket.
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated!
> thanks
> brian

You can simple pull out the metal insert in most jumpers.  Of course,
they won't stay on quite as well...

--Chuck