* a short name for M1-DA, a video connector standard used on projectors

Bronze parts are tough and typically used for bearings, clips, electrical connectors and springs.

Only components are connectors, capacitors, resistors and voltage indicator LEDs.

* Fall protection: Carabiners use for fall protection in US industry are classified as " connectors " and are required to meet Occupational Safety and Health Administration standard 1910. 66 App C Personal Fall Arrest System which specifies " drop forged, pressed or formed steel " construction and a minimum breaking strength of.

The most common forms used are 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, and 1000BASE-T. All three utilize twisted pair cables and 8P8C modular connectors.

Because the Eurocard system provided for so many modular card sizes and because connector manufacturers have continued to create new connectors which are compatible with this system, it is a popular mechanical standard which is also used for innumerable " one-off " applications.

Compared with RS-232, USB is faster, uses lower voltages, and has connectors that are simpler to connect and use.

As an alternative, USB docking ports are available which can provide connectors for a keyboard, mouse, one or more serial ports, and one or more parallel ports.

The trailer controls are coupled to the tractor through two " glad-hand " connectors, which provide air pressure, and an electrical cable, which provides power to the lights and any specialized features of the trailer.

" Glad-hand " connectors ( also known as " palm couplings ,") are air hose connectors, each of which has a flat engaging face and retaining tabs.

The faces are placed together, and the units are rotated so that the tabs engage each other to hold the connectors together.

These connectors are similar in design to the ones used for a similar purpose between railroad cars.

Commercial themocouples are inexpensive, interchangeable, are supplied with standard connectors, and can measure a wide range of temperatures.

Transceivers can be connected to cable segments with N connectors, or via a vampire tap, which allows new nodes to be added while existing connections are live.

They are also used when extending any sort of cable that normally has plugs on both ends ( rather than a socket on one and plug on the other ), however in this case it is usually called just an " extender ", such as with F connectors, BNC connectors, and various RJ connectors used in telephony and computer networking.

Gender changers are used in professional audio to adapt XLR connectors, RCA connectors, Speakon connectors and TRS connectors.

The connectors are attached to flexible, thickly insulated leads that are terminated with connectors appropriate for the meter.

A motherboard ( sometimes alternatively known as the mainboard, system board, planar board or logic board ) is a printed circuit board ( PCB ) found in all modern computers which holds many of the crucial components of the system, such as the central processing unit ( CPU ) and memory, and provides connectors for other peripherals.

The following audio and video connectors are sometimes used for RF, but are not generally considered to be RF connectors:

Manufacturers of computer hardware sometimes design unusual or proprietary connectors.

Nearly all modern TV sets, VCRs, and DVD players sold in Europe have SCART connectors, though sometimes supplemented by RCA and / or RF connectors and there are also SCART-RCA adapters.

Though mini-DIN connectors are sometimes used for S-Video connections, composite video, component video, and analog audio ( mono or stereo ) all use RCA connectors unless RF is used.

This is however not true in tape recorder applications with four connectors cables where white is always left channel recording and black or sometimes blue is always left channel playback.

They are sometimes called " Centronics connectors " after the 36-pin micro ribbon connector Centronics used for their printers.

) Most commonly termination is done at both ends of the cable, although sometimes ( for example, when making a lead that needs to change wiring between the two connectors ) only one end will be IDC terminated, with the other end being terminated in a regular crimp or solder-bucket connection.

Although it is sometimes possible to dismantle and re-use IDC connectors, they are not designed to allow this to be done easily.

The terms phone plug and phone jack are sometimes used to refer to TRS connectors, but are also sometimes used colloquially to refer to RJ11 and older telephone plugs and the corresponding jacks that connect wired telephones to wall outlets ( the similar terms phono plug and phono jack ( or in the UK, phono socket ) refer to RCA connectors common in consumer HiFi and Audio Visual equipment ).

MCGA was similar to VGA in that it had a 256-color mode ( the 256-color mode in VGA was sometimes referred to as MCGA even though MCGA only existed on a small number of PS / 2 models ) and used 15-pin analog connectors, but the chipset's abilities were limited to that.

* The IEC 60320 C5 and C6 electrical power connectors, sometimes colloquially called cloverleaf connections

Most Famiclones also use standard Atari 9-pin shaped or even 15-pin joypad connectors instead of the proprietary NES connectors, and their controllers usually offer all of the functionality of a standard NES controller and sometimes features such as " slow motion " or several autofire keys with different speeds, which are not present on the standard out-of-the-box NES joypads.

Early automotive batteries could sometimes be repaired by dismantling and replacing damaged separators, plates, intercell connectors and other repairs.

The primary reason is that solutions with multiple boards require connections between the boards via edge connectors, and sometimes include a ribbon cable.

Some HTIBs use proprietary connectors between components, sometimes even combining several different wires into one connector, to reduce cable clutter and increase the ease of installation.

Some kinds of connectors, though more often used for balanced pairs, are sometimes used for single-ended operation:

Unfortunately, many type N connectors are not labeled, and it can be difficult to prevent this situation in a mixed impedance environment.

Because personal computers first used DB25 connectors for their serial and parallel ports, when the PC serial port began to use 9-pin connectors, they were often labeled as DB9 instead of DE9 connectors, due to an ignorance of the fact that B represented a shell size.

The non-standard 23-pin D-sub connectors for external floppy drives and video output on most of the Amiga computers are usually labeled DB23, even though their shell size is two pins smaller than ordinary DB sockets.

In addition to the original 31. 25 kbit / s ( baud is the signalling rate and is the reciprocal of the shortest signalling element ; bits / sec is the data rate ) current-loop transported on 5-pin DIN, other connectors have been used for the same electrical data, and transmission of MIDI streams in different forms over USB, IEEE 1394 a. k. a. FireWire, and Ethernet is now common.

Many terminals were manufactured with female terminals but were sold with a cable with male connectors at each end ; the terminal with its cable satisfied the recommendations in the standard.

Called " PLUS cards ", their connector design allowed them to be smaller ( and cheaper ) than standard ISA cards and to stack, rather than connecting to separate motherboard connectors ; both of these aspects of the design saved space and allowed up to three cards to be installed in a small card compartment of the compact integrated system case.

Some new DVD players, TV sets ( including HDTV sets ) and video projectors have DVI / HDCP connectors ; these are physically the same as DVI connectors but transmit an encrypted signal using the HDCP protocol for copy protection.

Modular connectors providing suitable switch contacts are available but not common ; Instead, mode 3 devices use two modular connectors, one for the incoming line and the other for the outgoing line.

The Centronics parallel interface quickly became a de facto industry standard ; manufacturers of the time tended to use various connectors on the system side, so a variety of cables were required.

Almost all modern video equipment has at least composite connectors, so this typically is not a problem ; however, older video equipment and some very low-end modern televisions have only RF input ( essentially the antenna jack ); while RF modulators are no longer common, they are still widely available to translate baseband signals for older equipment.

S / PDIF remained almost identical at the protocol level ( consumer S / PDIF provides for copy protection, whereas professional interfaces do not ), but changed the physical connectors from XLR to either electrical coaxial cable ( with RCA connectors ) or optical fibre ( TOSLINK ; i. e., F05 or EIAJ Optical ), both of which cost less.

The standard defines two interface levels ; the physical level that deals with electrical signals, connectors, mechanical and thermal conditions and the logical level that describes the address space, data transfer protocols, cache coherence mechanisms, synchronization primitives, control and status registers, and initialization and error recovery facilities.

Some connectors are designed such that certain pins make contact before others when inserted, and break first on disconnection ; this protects circuits typically in connectors that apply power, e. g. connecting safety ground first, and sequencing connections properly in hot swapping applications.

Though RF modulators inherently transmit combined A / V signals in video applications, they depend on broadcast television systems and RF connectors which are not universal worldwide ; RF signals are also generally inferior to direct signals due to protocol conversion and the RF limitations of the three major analog TV systems ( NTSC, PAL and SECAM ).

In the digital realm, however, combined A / V connectors are gaining ground ; HDMI is commonly being used today, and DisplayPort is a potential competitor to HDMI.

In stereo audio applications there are combinations of either Black + Red, Grey + Red or White + Red RCA connectors ; in both cases, Red denotes Right.

A standard IV infusion set consists of a pre-filled, sterile container ( glass bottle, plastic bottle or plastic bag ) of fluids with an attachment that allows the fluid to flow one drop at a time, making it easy to see the flow rate ( and also reducing air bubbles ); a long sterile tube with a clamp to regulate or stop the flow ; a connector to attach to the access device ; and connectors ( called " s or Y-Set ( infusion ))" to allow "" of another infusion set onto the same line, e. g., adding a dose of antibiotics to a continuous fluid drip.

* BT224 connector – also defined by BS9525-F0023, DIN41651, MIL-C-83503 standards ; these are the type used on ATA cables and are often simply called " IDC connectors ".

The SAE J1772 committee developing standard connectors for plug-in electric vehicles proposes to use power line communication between the vehicle, off-board charging station, and the smart grid, without requiring an additional pin ; SAE and the IEEE Standards Association are sharing their draft standards related to the smart grid and vehicle electrification.

A 3. 5 mm TRS plug ; these connectors are also often called ( mini -) stereo plugs or headphone plugs.

Since the early 1990s, when the game port moved from dedicated expansion cards to PC I / O or sound cards, these connectors have usually doubled as connectors for MIDI instruments ; two of the redundant + 5V and GND pins of the original standard were rededicated to MIDI input and output to make this possible.