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From: bw on 24 May 2010 03:36

"Rocky Stevens" <rocky.stevens(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:35fb0709-56c2-4667-b487-959da6c69b1c(a)o39g2000vbd.googlegroups.com...
> Subject says it all - I thought that a socket was female, which
> headers were then stuck into. But if that is the case, what is a
> "female" header, if not just another name for a socket? Is a female
> header somehow designed better to be soldered onto a board, whereas a
> "socket" is better designed to be soldered to wires (i.e. for a cable)?

The pins determine the gender, not the parts containing the pins.


From: Michael Black on 24 May 2010 09:49
On Sun, 23 May 2010, Rocky Stevens wrote:

> Subject says it all - I thought that a socket was female, which
> headers were then stuck into. But if that is the case, what is a
> "female" header, if not just another name for a socket? Is a female
> header somehow designed better to be soldered onto a board, whereas a
> "socket" is better designed to be soldered to wires (i.e. for a cable)?
>
If it sticks out, it's male, if it takes in, it's female. I remember
saying something about the gender of connectors thirty years ago, and
awoman near by instantly understood what I was talking about, it's just
like real people.

What gets confusing is socket/plug. Generally, the fixed thing becomes
the socket, the thing at the end of a cable is a plug. But then when
the gender switches from "what is normal", people sometimes think
it needs renaming.

So look at the common AC cord. It's a plug, because it's at the
end of a cable, and fits in the wall socket (so named because it's
fixed in the wall). There's a good reason for why the plug has
the male connector on it, and why the socket is female. If the
genders were reversed, you'd have a male connector sticking out
of the wall with 120vac on it, not a safe situation.

So it is common for souces of voltage to be female, so the voltages
are not exposed, and the receivers of voltage to be male, since if
not plugged in the exposed male connector isn't exposing any
voltage. But even then that's not consistent, since for things
like audio connectors, anything mounted is female, while anyting
on a cable is male.

Michael

From: krw on 24 May 2010 18:36
On Mon, 24 May 2010 02:36:05 -0500, "bw" <bwegher(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>"Rocky Stevens" <rocky.stevens(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:35fb0709-56c2-4667-b487-959da6c69b1c(a)o39g2000vbd.googlegroups.com...
>> Subject says it all - I thought that a socket was female, which
>> headers were then stuck into. But if that is the case, what is a
>> "female" header, if not just another name for a socket? Is a female
>> header somehow designed better to be soldered onto a board, whereas a
>> "socket" is better designed to be soldered to wires (i.e. for a cable)?
>
>The pins determine the gender, not the parts containing the pins.

....unless you're buying RP-TNC cables. :-(
From: Michael A. Terrell on 24 May 2010 23:30

"krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" wrote:
>
> On Mon, 24 May 2010 02:36:05 -0500, "bw" <bwegher(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Rocky Stevens" <rocky.stevens(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:35fb0709-56c2-4667-b487-959da6c69b1c(a)o39g2000vbd.googlegroups.com...
> >> Subject says it all - I thought that a socket was female, which
> >> headers were then stuck into. But if that is the case, what is a
> >> "female" header, if not just another name for a socket? Is a female
> >> header somehow designed better to be soldered onto a board, whereas a
> >> "socket" is better designed to be soldered to wires (i.e. for a cable)?
> >
> >The pins determine the gender, not the parts containing the pins.
>
> ...unless you're buying RP-TNC cables. :-(


Along with the original .062" and .093" series Molex connectors that
let you install each pair of contacts however you want.


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