So DigiKey does gay pornography now ;^) - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: ANTALIFE
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 05, 2016, 04:08:23 am
content: http://www.digikey.com.au/product-detail/en/on-shore-technology-inc/OSTOQ025351/ED2700-ND/2351776Dat pic

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 05, 2016, 04:12:09 am
content: You should seriously put NSFW in the title, my boss almost saw this.

author: ANTALIFE
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 05, 2016, 04:13:45 am
content: Speaking of headers does anyone know if a simpler version of this existshttp://goo.gl/9S2uUO?I am after a 5.08/5mm pitched header which also stops the user from plugging in a 2pin connector into a 4pin port.

author: Gribo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 05, 2016, 06:09:52 pm
content: Wurth has variations with plastic inserts that can prevent wrong mating. They had them on the paper catalog, I can't find it on their site.

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 06, 2016, 02:53:35 am
content: Quote from: Gribo on April 05, 2016, 06:09:52 pmWow, really?That's just wrong. Connectors should be free to mate the way they want to, not the way we think they should want to.STOP THE OPPRESSION!

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 06, 2016, 03:29:10 am
content: When did you realise how the terms "male" and "female" got applied to connectors? Have you had some awkward moments trying to answer someone else asking that question?

author: Muttley Snickers
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 06, 2016, 05:02:30 am
content: I'm not bothered by the Digikey image at all, this on the other hand is just plain wrong and a warning that it does contain content that some may find disturbing, I know it did my head in......

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 06, 2016, 05:02:54 am
content: Quote from: amyk on April 06, 2016, 03:29:10 amI would guess that whoever first made up the terms had watched too much porn the night before. Or is a pervert. Maybe both. Not to mention that many real world connectors have both male and female elements on either side - i.e. the common DC power connector has a pin on the female side that goes into a hole on the male side.And it's also surprising that the industry just accepted those terms. As opposed to, for example, "inner and outer" or "piston and cylinder".

author: AntiProtonBoy
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 06, 2016, 05:47:20 am
content: The days of heteronormative CIS connectors are over.

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 06, 2016, 11:10:08 am
content: Quote from: NiHaoMike on April 06, 2016, 05:02:54 amSo bi-gender connectors? lol

author: timb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 06, 2016, 12:42:08 pm
content: I don't even know how two female connectors could mate... Unless they just scissored or something?Scissor me timbers!

author: AF6LJ
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 06, 2016, 12:48:22 pm
content: It doesn't take much to entertain some of you boys, does it.....

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 06, 2016, 01:05:52 pm
content: Quote from: Muttley Snickers on April 06, 2016, 05:02:30 amreminds me of later on in this video lol

author: GK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 06, 2016, 01:06:59 pm
content: AFAIK we've had androgynous, same-type-mating connectors ever since the General Radio Type 874 RF connector of 1947. Some of my vintage test equipment is thus equipped.Ultimately, I think that the ancient Greeks are historically to blame. YMMV and each to their own - I can handle the connectors but this is the stuff of nightmares:

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 06, 2016, 05:22:54 pm
content: Have they changed it in a hurry or am I missing something ? I always refer to pins as male and female, I am afraid that pin and socket pin is just stupid. even female reps at the connector company refer to them as male and female.

author: Electric flower
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 06, 2016, 05:38:18 pm
content: I wonder if they have these in stock...

author: macboy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 06, 2016, 05:50:50 pm
content: Quote from: amyk on April 06, 2016, 03:29:10 amIt isFARmore awkward to explain the use of the terms master and slave.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 06, 2016, 05:53:49 pm
content: Quote from: macboy on April 06, 2016, 05:50:50 pmErr we are talking about electronics ?

author: Cubdriver
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 06, 2016, 07:23:13 pm
content: Quote from: NiHaoMike on April 06, 2016, 05:02:54 amAnd then you have things like the Anderson Power Pole connectors that are genderless... And my guess is that the industry (and everything else) was much less PC back when the terms were coined, and also that the connectors back in the day tended to be more strictly male or female rather than the more ambiguous types like the DC power barrel type (I typically refer to those as plug and jack, rather than trying to sex them since they are sort of open to interpretation.)-Pat

author: os40la
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 06, 2016, 07:55:24 pm
content: Quote from: timb on April 06, 2016, 12:42:08 pmOr would it be more like a tongue in groove type of connection?

author: dmills
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 06, 2016, 08:06:59 pm
content: There are actually a class of "Hermaphrodite connectors" as well, Lemo make some, popular in the broadcast game.My finest hour for accidental political incorrectness was (While sat in a theatre bar discussing the next days work) :"First thing tomorrow, you guys finish hanging the blacks while I go and pickup some redheads and blonds to keep the video crew happy", you would not believe the dirty looks from some of the public.Note, in UK theatrical production parlance, the blacks are the black curtains around the stage, and in video lighting, readheads and blonds are standard 800W & 2,000W lighting units, it took me a while to realise that this could be misinterpreted by those outside the industry.....Regards, Dan.

author: T3sl4co1l
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 06, 2016, 11:56:22 pm
content: Tim

author: sarepairman2
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 07, 2016, 12:09:12 am
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author: Smokey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 07, 2016, 12:24:58 am
content: Too funny. I actually use this series of connector. They are really good connectors

author: Cerebus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 07, 2016, 12:38:43 am
content: Quote from: macboy on April 06, 2016, 05:50:50 pmLike many things that require a bit of obfustication, just use Latin.So it's "Dominatrix and Slave". There, fixed that for ya...

author: Cerebus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 07, 2016, 12:46:56 am
content: Quote from: dmills on April 06, 2016, 08:06:59 pmAnd one of those eavesdroppers would think that a job that involved "picking up readheads and blondes" was glamorous when it truth it involves carrying loads of heavy stuff with a sweaty bloke called Gary.

author: Corporate666
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 07, 2016, 01:38:15 am
content: Based on what some of my customers send back for warranty work, I think connector gender, pitch, locking tab alignment, # of positions, terminal gauge and mating type are all just vague suggestions for some people.I once had a guy send back an LED board that was dead - it was dead because he decided to smear glue all over the front of the board and then apply *glitter* in the hopes it would make it brighter. The glitter particles got into the connector, along with the glue, and rendered the board dead.And yes, I fixed it.