It IS standard DTE pinout, merely female. A female connector is a mirror image of a male connector.
Look at the numbers on the pins, not their physical location. A gender-changer does not simply make the existing female pins male, it also relocates all pins to their mirror image locations. That's why the mini gender-changers always flip the D shape upside-down from one side to the other. Take a female connector, look at it's face with the longer row of pins on top, and find pin #1 (top-left I think). Now imagine a male connector is inserted. That pin#1 position is also pin#1 on the male connector. Now imagine taking the male connector out and looking at it's face. Where pin#1 is top-left on one connector, it's top-right on the other. -- bkw On Mon, Jul 27, 2020, 12:58 PM Joshua O'Keefe <maj...@nachomountain.com> wrote: > On Jul 27, 2020, at 6:41 AM, B 9 <hacke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Molex 1731090178 > <https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/1731090178/900-1731090178-ND/5874494/?itemSeq=333470790> > > Wouldn't you need to change the wiring since the pins go from > left-to-right instead of right-to-left? > > > A lot of the plain through-hole stuff I saw didn't look like it had the > lead length to make a solid friction fit into the port and still sit nice > and flush against the top edge of the T like mine does, but that Molex with > the nice long leads looks like it might do it if can transplant the > mounting greebles from the old one. I haven't taken measurements yet but > it looks like a fairly close match by eyeball. Nice find! > > I wasn't aware the T's serial port was wired backwards, though. I thought > it was just female where DTE is customarily male. Maybe I should continue > to stick with what I have since it works even if the sequence of adapters > between any given two devices can get a little unwieldy. >
