Oh Dave! I can tell that hanging with you is going to keep me on my toes!
Please clarify your "
Back of Female XLR" and "
Front of ..." By "front of" are talking about looking at the plug from the end at which the cable emerges? ...I think I might have seen this perspective labelled as "solder side" ??
Here's a modified version of your drawing with an XLR diagram I found. I was going to ask about this, but think I've found the answer on my own. What I might have thought was a
male XLR plug (the overall plug body fits inside the opposing plug) is actually the
female — it has the female pin holes while the other has the male pins.
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I'm hoping that in electronics I now may
ALWAYS identify a plug's sexual identity by the sex of its actual pins (male) or sockets (female) rather than by the sex of the plug body. Will that work?
Okay! Lets say I was now going to try to find a couple of 10k's (I'm guessing "resistors"? But, I thought resistors were spec'd in Ohms, not "k"s ???, WHERE would I best go online to secure "10k"s
....and, lets say I was going to mess around like this, are there any other bits and bobs that I might grab at the same time?
Jim