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Old 03-18-2008, 11:46 AM   #1
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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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It's a hermaphrodite plug?
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It's a hermaphrodite plug?
you aren't all that wrong

the cables i use here read

male to female

or

female to male

the direction depends when it goes from the mainframe to the accessory/peripheral
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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?
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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Yeah, like if its an innie or an outie.
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Old 03-18-2008, 01:33 PM   #6
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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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x4 by housing. If there is no housing then it is determined by the pin.
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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...
Thank you for knowing the difference between sex and gender.
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Sounds like somebody likes to keep up on current theory regarding gender as a social construction
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Old 03-19-2008, 07:02 AM   #10
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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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