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03-18-2008, 11:46 AM | #1 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2006 Location: Arlington, VA
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| What determines the gender of a plug?
If a plug has male pins but a female socket, do the pins or socket determine its gender? This came up talking about the balance adapters that plug into balancing equipped chargers, are the plugs for the balance taps from the battery male or female? |
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03-18-2008, 11:51 AM | #2 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Rectalville
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It's a hermaphrodite plug? |
03-18-2008, 11:54 AM | #3 |
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03-18-2008, 12:47 PM | #4 |
PapaGriz Yo Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: In the garage building the wife a crawler
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| In my experience designing test equipment we go by the highest level part, so we would go by the housing, not the pins.
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03-18-2008, 01:17 PM | #5 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: marysville
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Yeah, like if its an innie or an outie.
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03-18-2008, 01:33 PM | #6 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Milwaukie OR
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Sexing of Hobby plugs are based on the dousing not pins. A male plug is a male housing and female is female housing... not pins. Except the odd ones like deans where there is no sex to the pins... but all hobby plugs are sexed by housing...
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03-18-2008, 05:40 PM | #7 |
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x4 by housing. If there is no housing then it is determined by the pin.
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03-18-2008, 09:56 PM | #8 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Albuquerque
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| Thank you for knowing the difference between sex and gender.
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03-19-2008, 06:56 AM | #9 |
owner, Holmes Hobbies LLC Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Volt up! Gear down!
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Sounds like somebody likes to keep up on current theory regarding gender as a social construction |
03-19-2008, 07:02 AM | #10 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2006 Location: Arlington, VA
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Ok, thanks guys for confirming my thinking it would go by the socket. Now, I got to thinking, and for Chivas and our other spanish speaking members, being spanish is a gender based language, what are plugs in spanish, both male and female?
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