bugdozer
03-27-2008, 12:50 PM
Growing up, my dad was an electrical and mechanical engineer for a couple of different government contractors. With ‘Mil Spec’ and ‘useful service life dates’ lets just say we had a lot of ‘out of date’ stuff around our house. Tinker heaven! Now, after spending over twenty-five years in the electronics and communications fields, there are not a lot of connector types out there I have not gazed upon and there has always been a constant on the gender type. ‘The gender is dictated by the contacts, not the shell.’ RJ type connectors don't count as the generally suck.
In a recent order from ReadyHeli, I ordered what I thought was a female Futaba connector as I am shortening my servo leads. The receiver has pins, male, and the servo connector has holes, female. After a few emails back and forth with ReadyHeli and them telling me that “female had pins and male had slots” all I could say was WTF!!
I have done some looking around and it seems in the RC world, relating to radio equipment only, the male and female roles have been reversed, depending on the shell to dictate gender type. Ok fine, but why? My older boat radio and some long dead car radios have the original Futaba G connectors. The servo connectors have pins, male, and the receiver has holes, female. Did Futaba want to stick with the same gender reference when they moved over to the J connector or is there some other dark reason for this, as it makes no sense to me? Anybody?
In a recent order from ReadyHeli, I ordered what I thought was a female Futaba connector as I am shortening my servo leads. The receiver has pins, male, and the servo connector has holes, female. After a few emails back and forth with ReadyHeli and them telling me that “female had pins and male had slots” all I could say was WTF!!
I have done some looking around and it seems in the RC world, relating to radio equipment only, the male and female roles have been reversed, depending on the shell to dictate gender type. Ok fine, but why? My older boat radio and some long dead car radios have the original Futaba G connectors. The servo connectors have pins, male, and the receiver has holes, female. Did Futaba want to stick with the same gender reference when they moved over to the J connector or is there some other dark reason for this, as it makes no sense to me? Anybody?