dshmel
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Male..... think of it as human body parts. The "outie"..male, plugs INTO the "inie'....female.lol
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I purchased some from Amazon that were cheap. They were rejects and wired backwards just as you said. I just made sure to do all the rest of my wiring backwards to match.Be careful:
One problem that I have noticed; some cheapo ones don't wire them correctly. You have black wires going to red wires when you connect the male to a female lead.
Japan Solderless Terminal...Does anyone here know (or care for that matter) that JST was not originally the "term"/name of that style connector? @ Likes for the first, correct answer..
I owe Ya one more Rich, Outstanding...Japan Solderless Terminal...
I actually was researching the different sizes of JST the other day and came across what it really meant.I owe Ya one more Rich, Outstanding...
Japan Solderless Terminal...
As for the gender whichever part gets stuck inside the other is male and the other part is female. But honestly they are sold as the male being the part shown in post #1 iirc.
That was one of the articles I ran across in my research.To expand on this, read the following https://hackaday.com/2017/12/27/jst-is-not-a-connector/
To expand on this, read the following https://hackaday.com/2017/12/27/jst-is-not-a-connector/
Absolutely true, yet plug gender tends to have little actual significance to your average hobbyist since they are almost always used/purchased in pairs/multiples (why buy 1 when a dozen costs 10 percent more) containing one of each. Just as long as you use the gender that's shielded on the power source. Voyager1 has the right idea.I love it when they say things like "Its pitch of 2.5 mm is effectively identical to the 0.1″ pitch commonly found on prototyping breadboards." It just shows they have little idea about both the importance of measurement and lexicology of English.
I actually have a "Degree" (well, at least a graduation certificate, in horticulture) that I earned during my "College" days/years (not that type of College Btw), so the pistil/stamen thing sorta really brought back some memories/cracked me up more than it should have. You Sir, have brightened my morning and for that I thank you.I think it all depends on whether the wires inside the socket side represent a pistil or a stamen.
And how does this fit into the whole discussion?
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The plastic male housing inserts into the plastic female housing, but inside of the male housing are female metal sockets and inside the female housing are male pins.
JST is actually the MANUFACTURER, not the name of the connectors... the name for the connector on most of our small LiPo batteries is actually JST-RCY. The balance plugs on most LiPo's are JST-XH's. JST makes a whole bunch of different connectors... wire-to-wire, board-to-wire, board-to-board, etc...
Obviously Steve, you have never tried to fix stupid by reverse pinning connectors. It won't work with JST, however there are a whole lot from AMP (or whatever they are now called) that do...
Actually I wish there was a table of names for the zillion different connectors used in RC aircraft. I can pull four batteries out of my box and have four different connectors.