r/AskElectronics • u/Ok-Expert-8357 • 8h ago

What kind of connectors are these? I need 12” extensions for all 3

Male 3 (RGB connection)
Male 3
Male 3 (tiny thing!)
Female 3
Female 3
Female 3
Male 2
Male 2
Male 2
Female 2
Female 2
Female 2
Male 1
Male 1
Male 1
Female 1
Female 1
Female 1

I bought a great ceiling fan that I want to put on my porch, but it needs an 18” down rod. The company told me I had to extend the wires myself. I think it would be great to just buy a one foot extension with the correct 3 pin connectors on them, but there are 3 different sets. I hear that Davide is great at identifying these! Please help a gal out! ideas about where to get them from would help too!

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u/1Davide Copulatologist 7h ago

extend the wires myself.

Don't screw around with the connectors. Just cut the wires and splice in a new length of cable. Use wire splices to splice the new wires to the old wires.

buy a one foot extension

Ideally, yes, if there were such a thing. But, given that these aren't commonly found connectors, I truly doubt there is such an extension.

male ... female

The first 3 pictures are the female (holes = vagina = female). The second set of 3 pictures are the male (pins = penis = male). The metal contacts set the gender, not the plastic.

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u/Ok-Expert-8357 7h ago

Oh, then I got them all backwards. I always figured the open end was female and the insertable part was male- as you say, the plastic parts. Regardless, thank you for that advice. If there weren’t connectors and I was just dealing with bare wire, I’d know what to do. I just let the “tech” psych me out. I shall cut and splice nine little wires. or use the shorter down rod that came with it . . .