What is a "audio jack outlet" called?

Female 1/4" mono Female 1/4" stereo Female 1/8" mono Female 1/8" stereo

...I think

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Bulkhead/panel mount headphone jack, 2.5 or 3.5mm, tip-sleeve (mono) or tip-ring-sleeve (TRS) (stereo), or there's TRRS sometimes too (e.g. iPhone headsets). FYI, jack == female, plug == male, in case you get confused.

Tim

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Thanks, I found this digikey item: CP1-3533-ND.

I appreciate it.

Lots of choices, stereo/mono, 3/32", 1/8", 1/4", RCA. In any case, you're looking for a panel-mount jack, with or without a switch. Quite common, check Radio Shack's site first, then there's Digi-Key and Mouser. A couple of bucks at the most, shipping will kill you on onesies. Or you can scrounge one from a dead transistor radio.

Stan

Stan, I am buying some other stuff for my CNC mill on digikey, anyway, so I might as well get this. Thanks a lot.

That is a stereo phone jack ("female") with 1/8" (3.5mm) TRS connector.

Jay Ts

To hijack this topic and kill it in my own special way...

This is one thing in electronics that has always annoyed and confused me: what is a "jack"? I've even heard the terms "male jack" and "female jack" (wouldn't that be a "jill"?). Isn't there a better, more descriptive, less confusing set of terms to describe these connectors? Would "plug" (male) and "socket" (female) be any better? Not that this will keep me up nights...

In the electronics world, they are "boys" and "girls".

Paul

The plug is male, the jack (jackie?) is female. Socket or receptacle are synonyms. And there are those that swing both ways:

jsw

Radio Shack should have an octopus cable with one of each size, to identify yours.

jsw

Never heard of a "male jack", that would be a "plug". Also have never seen "female jack", redundant. "Female connector" or "receptacle", sure. Jack always implies a female connector. Also used as a verb, "to jack in a headphone". Phone switchboards were probably the first large-scale users of jacks and plugs, might be the original of the terms come from that arena in the distant past.

Where it gets fun is where a connector has a recess, but the contacts are pins sticking up and the mate fits the recess but has otherwise female sockets for the pins. The convention is that the recessed piece is the female of the pair and the other part is the male plug, but it could be argued for the reverse.

Stan

Oh, yeah. Molex connectors are an example of this. The plastic portion can be male or female, and the metal parts (pins/sockets) can be put in either gender plastic piece.

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Tsk,tsk,tsk, bad habits die hard...

Anyway, on to the meat of the matter:

A "Plug" is a cable-mounted connector, regardless of sex, and a "Jack" is a panel or bulkhead connector, regardless of sex.

The two can easily be differentiated by their mounting arrangements, but confusion sometimes arises when a jack is mounted on a cable.

The confusion is allayed by referring to it as a jack, since that's what it was designed to be.

For example, we design and build aircraft ground support equipment, and one of the requirements for the equipment is that jacks be provided on the ends of cables so that plugs can be disconnected from the aircraft and plugged into the GSE via the GSE's cables. In those cases, we identify the jacks on the cable ends with the same nomenclature found on the aircraft, say, "J201", and everybody's happy.

--- JF

Amphenol (sp?) as well.

Gunner

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Gauge 'A' or Gauge 'B'?

(The Gauge 'B' plug , also known as "British Post Office Plug" or a "316 plug", has a 1/4" stem with an 1/8" ball at the tip).

"Jack" is always the socket, the plug is called a "Plug", or sometimes a "Jack Plug".

How do you identify blind-mate connectors on removeable modules? Both sides mount in a panel.

jsw

I "see" a joke in there somewhere.

Good info.

I have an AT NIC card and driver for Dos - CNC machines

I have a modern PCI bus NIC card - motherboard has one - don't need NIC.

In fact the tower was RF connected and the NIC was never used.

Trade or sale.

Martin

Mart> Bulkhead/panel mount headphone jack, 2.5 or 3.5mm, tip-sleeve (mono) or

We top posters save paging down pages of your junk in order to see a word 'YES' or 'No'.

This was and is the standard used due to bandwidth charging ISPS but before hard copy terminals.

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