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[Colin Bishop]

Now I'm confused! Will I have to change the servo plugs to female connectors to connect them to the Planet RX?

Colin

[Martin (Admin)]

 

[RaaArtyGunner]

Thank you am now with it.
I think. No its OK,  I understand as all has now been revealed. 

[DickyD]

The pins on the Rx are the same as on the Action Electronics gear and the standard fitted Futaba Rx.  Your plugs as fitted WILL FIT Colin.

In fact they take all makes as standard.

[barriew]

Colin,

What we all refer to as PLUGS on the end of Servos, ESCs etc are in fact SOCKETS which push onto the pins on the Receiver. Its the housing which is "male", the bit that does the work is actually "female"

Barrie

[Circlip]

Not on the ends of my Remcon Quantum 6 servo leads they ain't   

  Regards  Ian

[DickyD]

I was always told that the live side of a plug and socket joint was the female socket. Biology aye.

[Colin Bishop]

What we all refer to as PLUGS on the end of Servos, ESCs etc are in fact SOCKETS which push onto the pins on the Receiver. Its the housing which is "male", the bit that does the work is actually "female"

Yes that's the case now but on my old Futaba M series gear the plugs on the servos were definitely all male and plugged into holes in the RX.  Times change...

Colin

[malcolmfrary]

It is possible to have a female plug and a male socket.  Its just careful use of language ignoring the common and incorrect usage that all plugs must be male.  If its on the end of a lead, its a plug.
The present "standard" for servos, 3 wires, -ve at one side,+ve in the middle and signal on whats left, arranged in a neat row spaced a 0.1", running on a nominal 5 volts and using pulse length encoding is so common that any RX maker who tries to step outside of it is going to wind up with very few customers.

[RaaArtyGunner]

Just to add to the confusion   here in Oz we were taught that all connections with pins, prongs, protrusions etc were "Male"  and conversely all connections be they sockets etc with holes ie they fitted onto , were female connections.
Simple anatomy was used to differentiate the type of connection thereby determining if it was a male or female connection.
It then follows you can have either male & female plugs or male and femal sockets{-) 
Simple really