What is a "audio jack outlet" called?

Wouldn't even be a 14" Jack connector, let alone the smaller sizes :-)

Mark Rand RTFM

The other issue is printing a single page to get an answer rather than 10 pages of junk to get the page you really want.

Martin

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And you are the spammer.

I have friends here that are rebuilding old CAD/CAM machines and DOS machines from time to time. Martin

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It is a "miniature (or subminiature) phone jack", (female).

What diameter the plug is can vary, so measure that. I see

2.50mm (3/32"), and 3.50mm (1/8") listed in Digikey. They are two conductor (tip and sleeve) or three conductor (tip, ring, sleeve). Stereo audio connectors tend to be tip-ring-sleeve design.

The standard sized (and rare these days) phone plug is 1/4" diameter, and I believe that there is also a (even more rare) 3/16" diameter.

Some are also set up to close or open extra contacts as you plug in the male connector.

Here is one three circuit one 1/8" diameter by Switchcraft to be found at

-- look for Newark part number

27B9344 or Switchcraft part number 35RAPC2BV4.

They are $3.42 each.

Mounting is through a hole in the panel, secured by the knurled nut visible spun up against the body.

It looks as though this one is the stereo (three circuit) with two switch contacts made or opened as you insert the plug. (Though the illustration does not show the extra solder terminals required for that.)

Assuming that the URL found by the search is not a volatile one, you can simply try:

You can find several on their catalog page 983

Measure your plug, so you know which one you really need.

You can likely even find them still at Radio Shack. :-)

Read up on the Wikipedia page:

to see lots of versions.

Good Luck, DoN.

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It comes from the phone industry. The RJ in an RJ-45 interconnection designates "Registered Jack".

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The convention on Usenet is to place your response *underneath* the passage you're replying to -- much like the way your mother can often be found underneath the UPS man.

And the majority of the "pages of junk" *should* have been edited out -- leaving *only* what paragraph or sentence you are replying to -- and perhaps a bit more for context.

If you have to go down to below what you are quoting to reply to, you presumably will notice how much junk there is which needs deleting.

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You are so darn picky. Do you expect Usenet posters to think or something? 8*)

Glad we could be of help. Now that you've got what you need, we can divert this thread to politics. ;-)

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Except it's NOT 1/8", it's 3.5mm.

Graham

You'd better tell manufacturers of the XLR type connector that. The term 'female cable socket' is quite normal.

Graham

Don't you always ?

An inline interconnection (XLR or otherwise) reverts back to the predominant sex of conductor pins and sockets contained in each bob. The 'bob' with the highest male pin count is the plug, and the predominantly "holey" or "female socket populated" "bob" (connector shell) is the lady of the pair or the JACK, or your precious "socket". I'd almost bet that the use of the term "socket" to refer to any cable or interconnect element is a European etymology thing. Over here, what we call a socket, one screws a light bulb into. You missin' yours?

That inline configuration is "flying lead" style stuff. There are a few added monikers over a panel mounted termination point. Most interconnects connect between hard panel JACKs and mobile, end-of-cable PLUGS, and they get those monikers REGARDLESS of what pins predominantly populate EITHER interconnect half.

Only in turd world countries where they make substandard 1/8" crap and claim they invented it.

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