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WH1080
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WH1080
I just acquired a used Fine Offset WH1080. The USB port on it is a flat type. How am I ever going to connect it to my PC? PCs only have flat type ports and the only USB cables I know are flat to square. I have never seen an USB cable with male flat types on both sides...
Anybody have the same problem?
Anybody have the same problem?
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Re: WH1080
USB male A to A cables are very common. E.g. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/270564008791
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Re: WH1080
These units normally come with the correct cable. Ask whoever sold it to you for the cable.
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Re: WH1080
Look for USB 2.0 Cables - A Male to A Male about 1/3 of the way down....
http://www.monoprice.com/products/subde ... p_id=10303
http://www.monoprice.com/products/subde ... p_id=10303
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Re: WH1080
Oops, I wondered why I didn't get responses, but I was not automatically subscribed to my own post. Changed that setting now
Yes, the previous owner still had the cable
Funny I have been in IT since 1995 and never seen this type
Thanks for your responses
Yes, the previous owner still had the cable
Funny I have been in IT since 1995 and never seen this type
Thanks for your responses
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Re: WH1080
Hi,bar2d2 wrote:Funny I have been in IT since 1995 and never seen this type :
Not entirely surprising, because it's an "illegal" cable type (or at least not legitimate as far as the official USB specification is concerned).
A fundamental concept of USB is that there are separate "Host" and "Client" (or slave) devices and to prevent "inappropriate" (non-functional, Host-Host or Client-Client) attempts to make a connection, the cables (should have) different connectors at their two ends.
The "Type A" is reserved for "Host" devices (usually a computer), but the FO Console is only a "Client" so it should not have a "Type A" host connector, but instead one of the three available versions of "Type B", i.e. either the "square" type B (often found on printers) or the "Mini" or "Micro" types found on Phones, Cameras, MP3 players, etc....
Cheers, Alan.
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Thanks Alan AllyCat, that is useful information. I was starting to doubt myself as an IT Pro LOL!
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Re: WH1080
Given how commonly available A-A cables are, there must be lots of devices with the 'wrong' port; I've seen portable hard drives with them. Why would manufacturers like FO have done this? Cost/size/shape of the socket? These days many/most upstream ports seem to be using micro/mini connectors.
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Re: WH1080
It's always cost, in one form or another.
While the male A to male A is not allowed by the original specification, many manufacturers are pushing for it or have just gone ahead and ignored the spec. There are obvious advantages to a symmetrical cable, including the ability to splice multiple sections together with simple connectors, like is done with network cables, and not needing a box of different types of cables to do a simple task of interconnecting similar devices. Also, since the latest revision of the spec allows devices to be master or slave depending on the state of the 5th pin in the micro and mini versions of the connector, the USB purists have essentially lost the battle. (At least I think it's in the spec - it's certainly built into the latest Android devices)
But then, the internet generation doesn't believe in specs anyway - the IETF method is to publish recommendations and hope people follow them. When I'm feeling cynical, I add "and complain when they don't" to that statement.
While the male A to male A is not allowed by the original specification, many manufacturers are pushing for it or have just gone ahead and ignored the spec. There are obvious advantages to a symmetrical cable, including the ability to splice multiple sections together with simple connectors, like is done with network cables, and not needing a box of different types of cables to do a simple task of interconnecting similar devices. Also, since the latest revision of the spec allows devices to be master or slave depending on the state of the 5th pin in the micro and mini versions of the connector, the USB purists have essentially lost the battle. (At least I think it's in the spec - it's certainly built into the latest Android devices)
But then, the internet generation doesn't believe in specs anyway - the IETF method is to publish recommendations and hope people follow them. When I'm feeling cynical, I add "and complain when they don't" to that statement.
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Re: WH1080
Hi,steve wrote:Why would manufacturers like FO have done this? Cost/size/shape of the socket?
Yes, probably all of those. Certainly the "standard" USB Type B connector is rather "chunky", but I believe that the USB connectors were designed for the specific purpose, unlike RS232, PS2 (keyboard/mouse), etc. which just adopted existing connectors. And IMHO the B was designed rather well (compared for example with SCART) for plugging a cable into the back of a piece of equipment where you couldn't see (only feel) the socket.
Since USB is fundamentally a Host-Client structure (unlike network cables, etc), and considering the confusion which reigns over RS232 Transmit/Receive (or rather Teletype/Modem) nomenclature, the different connectors did seem like a "good idea". I first "discovered" the A-A type cable used for a NiMH battery charger, which perhaps was legitimate as the charger was just stealing power from a computer so there was no real data transfer. Then the dam was breached when various types of (back-back) adapter began to appear........
I suspect that FO could/should have used a standard type B socket but perhaps didn't/couldn't read the USB specification (bearing in mind that some specifications have to be bought/licensed at quite high cost). However, the mini/micro connectors may well be available only in "Surface Mount" versions (not "through hole") and would probably "fall off" very soon with the quality of copper adhesion (and of course lack of plated-through holes) that I've found on a few FO Printed Circuit Boards.
Cheers, Alan.
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Re: WH1080
Another factor is the increasingly thinner and thinner architecture of laptops etc., the flatter USB A plug saving space as with the smaller mini A and B plugs.