Shape-wise it looks like a Mini A or B but I don’t think it is a USB at all as it has too many connectors.
Looks like it might be a proprietary connector.
Cheers,
Nigel
Well it is USB on one end - at the other it looks like it is proprietary - it has seven terminals rather than five. It may well be using the USB standard - perhaps two terminals are not used or they have doubled up some - like using two together for 5V.It does have the USB 'Trident' symbol on the side of the plug and on the other end is a standard USB plug. It's a charging cable for a MP3 player thingy, but maybe it's a proprietary connector as you say.
What’s the make of the MP3 player?It does have the USB 'Trident' symbol on the side of the plug and on the other end is a standard USB plug. It's a charging cable for a MP3 player thingy, but maybe it's a proprietary connector as you say.
What’s the make of the MP3 player?
Google ‘make+USB charging cable’ will probably give you results or a name if not proprietary.
What’s wrong with Lightning? It’s reversible and I’ve had zero issues over the years, to the extent that I’ve probably got three or four cables in the drawer unused.Whoever thought Micro-B and Lightning connectors were suitable for devices needing charging at least daily, wants shooting.
That's probably been overcome with USB-C, too late we now have wireless charging with no socket stress.
Don’t a lot of the good wireless charging plates connect to the mains via USB-C/Lightning cable to the plug, so we still need them.That's probably been overcome with USB-C, too late we now have wireless charging with no socket stress.
Yes, but you don't have to repeatedly insert/remove it. Both the cable and the socket are a weak point, indefensible when it's the important part of a £500+ mobile device.Don’t a lot of the good wireless charging plates connect to the mains via USB-C/Lightning cable to the plug, so we still need them.
Maybe, but it's still a point of early failure.The lightning cable is much better than the old 30 pin connector that Apple used to use.
Now...
After reading @PsyVision's post I had a bit of an Oops moment and thought I better try connecting leads to things to check if they fit. As it turns out I'd labeled a lead incorrectly. So the cable in the middle (pic on post #1) seems to be an oddball USB cable and actually connects to a Fuji compact camera that's been languishing on a shelf for a long while.
So... feeling confident most of my stuff is going to be Mini A and Micro B I came across this (cable on the left)...
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So...
Center Micro B.
Right Mini A.
Left ??? Mini AB ??? any ideas?.
I've got/had a piece of kit that the cable on the left plugs into but I've no idea what it is.
I'm normally very organised but I seem to have made a real dog's dinner organising my USB cables.
I have had three iPhones and one iPad with Lightning ports over the past six years. Not once has any port given me any trouble at all, let alone been killed by using it as it’s intended to be used every day. The same is true for my iPhone/iPad-owning family members and friends. Maybe we’re just lucky, I don’t know.Yes, but you don't have to repeatedly insert/remove it. Both the cable and the socket are a weak point, indefensible when it's the important part of a £500+ mobile device.
Maybe, but it's still a point of early failure.
And get this; Apple chose to incorporate the function of a decades-old robust standard jack connection into the lightning standard, so by the time you've repeatedly swapped between charger and headphones you've definitely killed the charging socket. Unless it was done to upsell users expensive Bluetooth earbuds.
I’ve had issues with the old 30 pin cables in the past, but likewise have had no issues with the lightning cable.I have had three iPhones and one iPad with Lightning ports over the past six years. Not once has any port given me any trouble at all, let alone been killed by using it as it’s intended to be used every day. The same is true for my iPhone/iPad-owning family members and friends. Maybe we’re just lucky, I don’t know.
I thought 'A' was always the host end, and 'B' for the slave device.
Now...
After reading @PsyVision's post I had a bit of an Oops moment and thought I better try connecting leads to things to check if they fit. As it turns out I'd labeled a lead incorrectly. So the cable in the middle (pic on post #1) seems to be an oddball USB cable and actually connects to a Fuji compact camera that's been languishing on a shelf for a long while.
So... feeling confident most of my stuff is going to be Mini A and Micro B I came across this (cable on the left)...
View attachment 1324804
So...
Center Micro B.
Right Mini A.
Left ??? Mini AB ??? any ideas?.
I've got/had a piece of kit that the cable on the left plugs into but I've no idea what it is.
I'm normally very organised but I seem to have made a real dog's dinner organising my USB cables.
My experience with lightning is the two second-user iPhones my daughter's mother acquired for her, which both suffered unreliable charging sockets; my son's iPhone and both their iPads (the latter supplied new by me) haven't succumbed.I have had three iPhones and one iPad with Lightning ports over the past six years. Not once has any port given me any trouble at all, let alone been killed by using it as it’s intended to be used every day. The same is true for my iPhone/iPad-owning family members and friends. Maybe we’re just lucky, I don’t know.
Hehehe I was about to say it looks like a camera to me, I've got a few of those for my cameras.Now...
After reading @PsyVision's post I had a bit of an Oops moment and thought I better try connecting leads to things to check if they fit. As it turns out I'd labeled a lead incorrectly. So the cable in the middle (pic on post #1) seems to be an oddball USB cable and actually connects to a Fuji compact camera that's been languishing on a shelf for a long while.
So... feeling confident most of my stuff is going to be Mini A and Micro B I came across this (cable on the left)...
View attachment 1324804
So...
Center Micro B.
Right Mini A.
Left ??? Mini AB ??? any ideas?.
I've got/had a piece of kit that the cable on the left plugs into but I've no idea what it is.
I'm normally very organised but I seem to have made a real dog's dinner organising my USB cables.
8 pin usb came up with an amazon link to a nikon cable...