On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 5:47 AM Brian White <b.kenyo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > Ah! So does that mean one could get an upside-down male connector to replace the existing female connector? 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 had thought it looked like a close match, and I think it is, but I realized there's an optical illusion happening. The leads only look long in your image (and on the Molex) because they lack a piece of plastic most others connectors have. I think they might all be the same length. (Of course, you'd still need one with an upside-down male connector). —b9
