Male vs Female Cable Connectors

[tp4tissue]

Is there a general convention of when to use either one or the other ?


So, Laptops would mostly have the female ends for example..

So I guess the larger Source of something usually has the female ?

[Spopepro]

It often has to do with which side is "hot". You don't want your hot male prong sticking out all over the place.

[tp4tissue]

... makes sense.. thanks..

[fohat.digs]

It often has to do with which side is "hot". You don't want your hot male prong sticking out all over the place.

Even more simply described as "upstream -> downstream" although the electrical socket in your wall deviates from this.

[rowdy]

I know someone who refers to them as "mother" and "father" connectors.

[xondat]

Feel free to release a laptop with a male connector, I'd love to see that

If you snap that the whole laptop is ****ed

[katushkin]

I get what you mean TP. I have been in a situation where some monitors have male connectors (admittedly some older models) and it was infuriating. IMO everything should be female except the cable.

[fohat.digs]

IMO everything should be female except the cable.

So often the connectors are just failure points waiting to happen.

Apple's brilliant magnetic connectors are one of the greatest innovations ever, and that sort of thing needs to be implemented a lot more.

[0100010]

Apples?!?

[fohat.digs]

Apples?

I was under the impression that they owned it, but maybe just the specific instance.

https://www.google.com/patents/US7311526

[bazh]

Feel free to release a laptop with a male connector, I'd love to see that

If you snap that the whole laptop is ****ed

actually the USB has always been a male-in-female connector isn't it

[xondat]

Feel free to release a laptop with a male connector, I'd love to see that

If you snap that the whole laptop is ****ed

actually the USB has always been a male-in-female connector isn't it

dunno what you've been using but USB is always male cable thing

[tp4tissue]

Feel free to release a laptop with a male connector, I'd love to see that

If you snap that the whole laptop is ****ed

actually the USB has always been a male-in-female connector isn't it

sockets are female, the plugs are male.

[bazh]

Feel free to release a laptop with a male connector, I'd love to see that

If you snap that the whole laptop is ****ed

actually the USB has always been a male-in-female connector isn't it

dunno what you've been using but USB is always male cable thing

yeah I meant inside the female end there always a little male-like prong to fit backward to the cable

think of it like the MX slider inside the Topre one.

[xondat]

Feel free to release a laptop with a male connector, I'd love to see that

If you snap that the whole laptop is ****ed

actually the USB has always been a male-in-female connector isn't it

dunno what you've been using but USB is always male cable thing

yeah I meant inside the female end there always a little male-like prong to fit backward to the cable

think of it like the MX slider inside the Topre one.

that's just the connector though, you put a male usb into a female usb thats built in

[FrostyToast]

Why don't you ask them what they self-identify as you cis-gendered neo-nazi scum of the Earth.
What about magnetic connectors? They don't "plug" into anything. You can't label cables like that. Stop oppressing my rights.

:triggered:

[duynguyenle]

Why don't you ask them what they self-identify as you cis-gendered neo-nazi scum of the Earth.
What about magnetic connectors? They don't "plug" into anything. You can't label cables like that. Stop oppressing my rights.

:triggered:

I guess magnetic connectors are asexual?

[tp4tissue]

Why don't you ask them what they self-identify as you cis-gendered neo-nazi scum of the Earth.
What about magnetic connectors? They don't "plug" into anything. You can't label cables like that. Stop oppressing my rights.

:triggered:

I guess magnetic connectors are asexual?

I would say there's still a male and female..

Because they always built a small Ridge in the male end and a depression into the female end.. so it doesn't move about in y and z

[fohat.digs]

I guess magnetic connectors are asexual?

Their poles exist in energy rather than matter.

[ANightOnCloudNine]

This thread is full of buttsauce. We need more gender jokes

[tp4tissue]

This thread is full of buttsauce. We need more gender jokes

That is not how we get'der more female participation on de Geekhack..

hahahahahahaha

[duynguyenle]

This thread is full of buttsauce. We need more gender jokes

That is not how we get'der more female participation on de Geekhack..

hahahahahahaha

tp4 is our resident female expert, listen to him

[tp4tissue]

This thread is full of buttsauce. We need more gender jokes

That is not how we get'der more female participation on de Geekhack..

hahahahahahaha

tp4 is our resident female expert, listen to him

[ThoughtArtist]

This thread is full of buttsauce. We need more gender jokes

That is not how we get'der more female participation on de Geekhack..

hahahahahahaha

tp4 is our resident female expert, listen to him

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Just remember that the male is supposed to serve the female

Male giveth, female taketh

That's the Universal Plug Rule

[keyladding]

Magnetic cables are bipolar

[tp4tissue]

Just remember that the male is supposed to serve the female

Male giveth, female taketh

That's the Universal Plug Rule

But that conflicts with what user -Spopepro- said.

Where you don't want Hot Power on the Male prongs.. because it's more easy to get electrocuted..



Unless we're not talking about the give-th of  power, and signal only ... ?

[fohat.digs]

Male giveth, female taketh

That's the Universal Plug Rule

But that conflicts with what user -Spopepro- said.

Where you don't want Hot Power on the Male prongs

Yes, electrical supplies should not be easily accessible by accident.

[xondat]

Male giveth, female taketh

That's the Universal Plug Rule

But that conflicts with what user -Spopepro- said.

Where you don't want Hot Power on the Male prongs

Yes, electrical supplies should not be easily accessible by accident.

Or should they...

[tp4tissue]

Male giveth, female taketh

That's the Universal Plug Rule

But that conflicts with what user -Spopepro- said.

Where you don't want Hot Power on the Male prongs

Yes, electrical supplies should not be easily accessible by accident.

Or should they...

Xondat = Murderer...

Don't trade with Xondat, else he'll knows where ya'll lives.

[duynguyenle]

Male giveth, female taketh

That's the Universal Plug Rule

But that conflicts with what user -Spopepro- said.

Where you don't want Hot Power on the Male prongs

Yes, electrical supplies should not be easily accessible by accident.

Or should they...

Xondat = Murderer...

Don't trade with Xondat, else he'll knows where ya'll lives.

Well that escalated quickly...

[xondat]

Male giveth, female taketh

That's the Universal Plug Rule

But that conflicts with what user -Spopepro- said.

Where you don't want Hot Power on the Male prongs

Yes, electrical supplies should not be easily accessible by accident.

Or should they...

Xondat = Murderer...

Don't trade with Xondat, else he'll knows where ya'll lives.

Flights cost too much... Would rather continue getting caps

[tp4tissue]

Male giveth, female taketh

That's the Universal Plug Rule

But that conflicts with what user -Spopepro- said.

Where you don't want Hot Power on the Male prongs

Yes, electrical supplies should not be easily accessible by accident.

Or should they...

Xondat = Murderer...

Don't trade with Xondat, else he'll knows where ya'll lives.

Flights cost too much... Would rather continue getting caps

That's exactly what all the internet murderers would like us to berieve.

[katushkin]

IMO everything should be female except the cable.

So often the connectors are just failure points waiting to happen.

Apple's brilliant magnetic connectors are one of the greatest innovations ever, and that sort of thing needs to be implemented a lot more.

Only some of them. Micro USB connectors are terrible for their soldering and come apart really easy. Mini USB however are more sturdy.

And as for Apple's magnetic chargers... I know quite a few people who detest them.