3 pin connector wiring...

[pk]

I order some of the 3 pin weatherproof connectors from Ray.   I am putting the female connector on the SCC and the male connector on the smartstrings. 

Is there any "standard" or preferred pin out for the connector?  Naturally I will wire all of mine the same.  However, if I were to loan a SCC to another member, his strings may be wired differently and would not work. 

Any thoughts on this?

[chrisatpsu]

i wire mine red +, green -, blue data, but i'm not really sure there's a standard used by anyone.

[Steve Gase]

i wire mine red +, green -, blue data, but i'm not really sure there's a standard used by anyone.

that is also my scheme

[dpitts]

I bought a second batch of connectors from Ray and the colors were different from first. They were brown, yellow, blue. I was a little upset but used them anyway.

[rm357]

If you plan to use any of the rigid strips, you need the male on the ssc.

Yes, that's backwards.
Power should always be in the female connector so that it is harder to short out the source, but it is what it is...

RM

[chrisatpsu]

if i encounted that, i'd replace the connector to be a male on the rigid, to make it all uniform and not short

[deplanche]

In order to replace the male connector, you have to remove the waterproofing from the rigid strip. Which is easier said than done, especially to get things back to waterproof in the end.

[pk]

Thanks to every that has replied.

Since the colors of the wires in the connectors has changed, I am looking for what is the pin out for the connectors.  Looking into the connectors I am numbering the pins as follows:

Male Connector              Female Connector
       key                                    key
    1       2                               2       1
         3                                        3

Which signal are you guys (that is Yankee for y'all) connecting to pin 1? pin 2? pin 3?

It sounds like the rigid strips may be defining this assignment.  I know that for my equipment it can be wire any of the 6 possible ways but is there a defacto-standard being used?

I agree with rm357... the male connector should never be used to supply power...  too easy to short pins or get shocked. 

[tbone321]

While there really is no standard, I would make the +12V on pin 1, ground on pin 2 and data on pin 3.  This way even if you manage to reverse the wires on one of the plugs you will not send 12V on the 5V data line.  The rest of the strip appears to have doides to protect from reverse polarity.

[chrisatpsu]

mine end up being...
1    ground
2    data
3    12+

[tbone321]

I would go with that configuration as well.

[pk]

The connectors I just got from Ray have blue, brown, and yellow w/green stripe wires.  I choose to make the data blue, yellow/green = ground and brown = +12.

It turns out that according to the pin number above,

1 = blue = data
2 = brown = +12
3 = yel/grn = GND

I guess the most important thing is I wire all of my smart strings the same!!!

[pk]

For what it is worth... 

I did a bit of research and discovered blue, brown, and yel/grn are used in power cables in Europe and Australia.

Brown = Live/hot/active
Blue = Neutral
Yel/grn = Earth ground.

[dpitts]

I also received brown,blue and yellow pigtails. But I had used a bunch of the red, green and blue in the past. In order to make them match up with the first set this is what I had to do.

+12
Red - Yellow

Grd
Green - Blue

Data
Blue - Brown

[chrisatpsu]

has anyone received the red/green/blue 3 pin connectors that are mixed in conductor placement?  what about the yellow, blue, brown?