Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => The Knowledge => Ctrl-Alt-Del => Topic started by: Russell on 08 February, 2021, 10:58:08 am
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I've found a cable in the house that has a standard USB type A at one end and a small connector at the other. It is non symetrical so not a USB C. It is 4.9x2.0mm (USB micro is 6.8x2.2mm) so smaller than a micro. It has 5 pins with 4 grouped close together at one side of the connector and a 5th on its own at the other end. The cable has an inductor fitted.
What is it please?
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Likely proprietary for a camera or some such.
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Spot on Phil. It fits my daughter's DSLR. A/V out connector.
Thanks muchly.
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This:
https://www.digitalmediastore.co.uk/nikon-compatible-uc-e6-uc-e16-uc-e17-digital-camera-usb-cable.html (https://www.digitalmediastore.co.uk/nikon-compatible-uc-e6-uc-e16-uc-e17-digital-camera-usb-cable.html)
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Likely proprietary for a camera or some such.
Was what I came to post, based on the Subject line. These things lurk at the bottom of the useful cables box to mislead you. Unless you have a camera which needs one, of course.
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Was what I came to post, based on the Subject line. These things lurk at the bottom of the useful cables box to mislead you.
You have a useless cables box too?
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Spot on Phil. It fits my daughter's DSLR. A/V out connector.
Thanks muchly.
Looks similar to one that works with 1 of my Fuji cameras and one of my Lumix cameras.
There seems to be standards of non-standard
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While we're on the subject what are the tiny USB plugs that used to be used with digital compact cameras (pretty much all makes as far as I can see) to connect to PCs and to charge with a USB charger. The other end was always the standard big USB for chargers (I would say "and computers" but these days that is no longer completely true). I only have one left for my Fuji compact and when it dies I won't be able to charge it!
And the super chunky one that did portable media players and Tomtom gps units? Mini USB or some such? (I used to know this once - getting old ain't much fun!)
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Mini USB seems about right. Also the same as used on TomTom satnavs and some older Garmins like eTrex.
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The one for Garmin TwatNavs looks almost identical to the one for Olympus cameras, but isn’t. Coronalurgi has meant I ent got round to replacing Emily the TwatNav yet.
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The type used by cameras were often "8-pin Mini-B". Not really standard, but seemed quite common for a while. And they may not use all of the pins, so could only have 5 pins.
https://pinoutguide.com/DigitalCameras/micro_usb_8pin_camera_pinout.shtml
There was also "Mini-A" and "Micro-A" connectors. Looked quite similar to Mini-B or Micro-B. They were part of the standards, and but I don't think they were ever used much.
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The type used by cameras were often "8-pin Mini-B". Not really standard, but seemed quite common for a while. And they may not use all of the pins, so could only have 5 pins.
https://pinoutguide.com/DigitalCameras/micro_usb_8pin_camera_pinout.shtml
There was also "Mini-A" and "Micro-A" connectors. Looked quite similar to Mini-B or Micro-B. They were part of the standards, and but I don't think they were ever used much.
Ah!
Yes my cameras are in that list.
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Was what I came to post, based on the Subject line. These things lurk at the bottom of the useful cables box to mislead you.
You have a useless cables box too?
Tragically, I have about 6 of them.
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I have a "useful cables" box and a "might be useful someday / WTF is this" cables box. Cables gradually migrate from the first to the second and then after a few years get consigned to the "graveyard of old cables" box in the attic, usually about two days before I discover I need one.