Outdoor DC power connector 50V/10A, 2-contact

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Does it have a way to connect pin 1 to the metal parts?

You do understand that the descriptor "female plug" is a contradiction? Plug is synonymous with male, and receptacle or socket is synonymous with female.

Yep- they're still in use in great quantity in the automotive market but once again your unrealistic demand of requiring hundreds and hundreds of mating cycles disqualifies them.

How the heck did you get yourself in the bind of requiring a bulkhead mount plug???

This would be a plug with female contacts:

In some parts of S.F. that may be different :-)

Actually, it appears two of the choices discussed here (Conxall and Neutrik) can do that. But first I want my client to play with them, see which ones they like best. Then we'll try to fill in the blanks that connector datasheets often leave.

Solar array -> generates power -> plugs into unit that needs a bulkhead connector. You don't want kids playing with a loose connector and make sparks by sticking a nail head in there or do some other nonsense :-)

A wee challenge with that is that most connectors aren't rated for connection under power. Since we only use a fraction of rated power I'll also inquire about that at the manufacturer of choice.

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Nope.

I think it would be acceptable to run the grey 2P+E variant. for your needs.

If the application really is connecting solar panels at 50 V 10 A, I do not understand why you complain about size, after all 50V@10A is

500 W and you need in practice about 5 m² of solar panels, so the connector size should not be a problem.

Regarding waterproof solar panels, do you really need IP67 (submerged)?

I would guess something like IPx2 (rain proof) would be enough ?

However, if you are talking about solar panels on a sailing boat, there are much more demanding issues like the salty sea water spray:-).

synonymous with male, and receptacle or socket is synonymous with female.

And then there's the issue of whether the gender refers to the contacts or the overall connector body.

There isn't any consensus. Here are the results from one on-line survey (that got it wrong, IMHO)

Plugs are on cables and are "mobile" while receptacles are on bulkheads/panels/equipment and are "fixed."

Gender is usually associated with the conductive element, the actual electrical contact. Thus a DB-9 female plug is on a cable with a backshell (or overmolded equivalent) and has the conductive mating surfaces in the form of open cylinders (sockets). The DB-9 male receptacle is a panel mount on the equipment with, perhaps, a strain relief inside but no backshell and the conductive mating surfaces are closed cylinders with a tapered point (pins). The original IBM PC serial cables (and their DB-9 progeny) have two plugs, one male and one female.

But it is also true that gender applies to the overall housing, so if the housing of A fits into the shell of B then A is the "male" housing side, even if it carries sockets vice pins. That is, this

would be a "male receptacle" since the housing is inserted inside this

Of course, that's backwards from the usual terminology.

Long story short: There are eight possible states: plug or receptacle, male or female housing, and male or female contacts.

Round MIL-style panel-mount receptacle housings are usually male (they fit inside the shell housing on the mating cable plug) but they and the plugs can usually (it depends on the series) be ordered with inserts that carry either male or female (pins or sockets) contacts.

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That's still almost the size of a European trailer hitch connector.

IP65 would be good. The Neutrik and some others supposedly are. My client likes them but we'll have to have custom solar cables made because the max OD they can take is 0.470" or 12mm.

So they ordered some yesterday and later will try them out, hold the hose onto it, and so on.

No sail board use :-)

But it will be used right at the coast so some sea spray is possible. A big issue with the Perilex would be the 40C limit. We'd be way above a lot of times because the unit could sit in places like New Mexiko, in the full sun all day long, and no wind.

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is synonymous with male, and receptacle or socket is synonymous with female.

Transgender plugs ... that made my day! Thanks, Rich.

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Be careful that they are genuine Neutrik. We got some Chinese knock-offs that were pretty convincing but were noisy as hell.

A wire? There is a solder tab that connects to the metal parts.

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I have never seen an open Neutrik connector in the flesh, so I asked. Is that in both genders, or just one?

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Isn't that suited for a spade lug?

Both. You can buy both the plugs and the bulkhead sockets in either gender. In case you need to pipe power out of a unit through a Neutrik connection, for example.

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I think they are the ones who came up with the "Boy George" token ring connectors

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Could be but there isn't a lot of space in there. There is a hole in the tab to solder a wire (through).