Mini-DIN connector
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The mini-DIN connectors are a family of multi-pin electrical connectors used in a variety of applications. Mini-DIN is similar to the larger, older DIN connector. Both are standards of the Deutsches Institut für Normung, the German standards body.
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[edit] Standard connectors
Mini-DIN connectors are 9.5 mm in diameter and come in seven patterns, with the number of pins from three to nine. Each pattern is keyed in such a way that a plug with one pattern cannot be mated with any socket of another pattern. An important aspect of why each of these 7 mini-DIN connectors are official standards is because they are each drastically different from the other, with no simultaneously and directly overlapping similarities in (1) pin arrangement, (2) square key size and position, (3) circular shielding metal skirt notches & metallic additions - unlike the nonstandard mini-DIN connectors which may have directly overlapping characteristics to each other or to the standard mini-DIN connectors.
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[edit] 3-pin
- Apple LocalTalk Network
- VESA Stereoscopic shutter sync (pinout diagram)
- SGI StereoView (pinout diagram)
[edit] 4-pin
- Apple Desktop Bus (Pinout diagram)
- S-Video (Pinout diagram)
- Thomson SpeedTouch 605 Console Serial Port / DSL Router (pinout diagram)
- Tandy MC-10 Serial port (pinout diagram)
- ATI All-In-Wonder input from S-Video / composite Video / Audio cable (pinout diagram)
- Matrox G450 & G550 TV Out to s-video adapter for G450 Series, G550 Series, P Series & Parhelia (pinout diagram)
- ATI Radeon 7 pin SVID/OUT connector connector widely used on ATI and other graphics cards. Carrys s-video and composite signals. (pinout diagram)
- S-Video to SCART cable (pinout diagram)
- SCART to S-Video cable (pinout diagram)
- Scart to RCA and S-Video adapter (pinout diagram)
- S-Video to Composite video adapter cable from s-video connector to RCA plug (pinout diagram)
- ATI All-In-Wonder to S-Video / composite Video / Audio cable (pinout diagram)
[edit] 5-pin
- Low-voltage power supply input connector on various pieces of equipment
- SONY LANC camcorder control interface (Pinout diagram)
- 5-pin MIDI input and output connectors used by the Creative Technology Sound Blaster X-Fi Front I/O Panel and the Creative LivedriveII (pinout diagram)
- Tandy Corporation TRS-80 MC-10 cassette port (Pinout diagram)
[edit] 6-pin
- IBM PC compatible PS/2 keyboard/mouse connector
- Amateur radio TNC modem-radio interface
- Power supply DC output for some electronic devices
- Acorn Archimedes keyboard
- Klipsch 2.1 channel audio system (2 speakers/1 subwoofer)
- Leadtek and VisionTek GeForce2 Ti cards as TV-out
- Saitek x52 Flight stick to throttle connection
[edit] 7-pin
- Commodore Plus/4
- iRobot Roomba serial connector
[edit] 8-pin
- Sony VISCA Camera Control
- Apple Macintosh Serial Port
- NEC Turbo Duo Controller Port
- Multimedia Extension Connector
- ATI Radeon 8-pin video connector.
- Sanyo/Fischer Camcorder A/V out (older models)
- Mitsubishi FX0 PLC
[edit] 9-pin
- Sega Mega Drive II
- Acorn Archimedes mouse
- Logitech Z-340 Speakers
- Nvidia and ATI Technologies Video In Video Out (VIVO) port connector for GeForce and Radeon video cards
- Bus mouse
[edit] Non-standard connectors
Several non-standard sockets are designed to mate with standard mini-DIN plugs. These connectors provide extra conductors, and are used to save space by combining functions in one connector that would otherwise require two standard connectors.
Other non-standard connectors mate only with their matching connectors, and are mini-DIN connectors only in the sense of sharing the 9.5mm plug body. These mini-DIN style plugs are not approved by the Deutsches Institut für Normung, the German standards body, and many applications could be considered proprietary.
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[edit] 7-pin
Many laptops and video cards use a 7-pin video output jack compatible with a standard 4-pin mini-DIN plug. Pins 1-4 use the standard S-video pinout, enabling standard S-video cables to connect directly. A wider key prevents insertion of the matching plug into a standard 4-pin socket.
The use of the extra three pins varies from manufacturer to manufacturer, but commonly includes a composite video output which is available using the manufacturer's proprietary adapter. Alternatively a YPbPr signal may be provided. Some proprietary adapters bridge specific pins in order to enable the signal on other pins, or to specify the type of signal to be delivered.
The keying and pin arrangement prevents the use of the standard 7-pin mini-DIN plug, but even if a suitable plug can be obtained, use of non-proprietary adaptors on these ports may cause problems. Some graphics hardware, for example, is not engineered to have both the S-video and composite video outputs in use at once, and attempts to do this using non-standard adapters will produce poor results at best, and possible damage to the video output circuitry.
- Dell Inspiron/Latitude Video/Digital Audio Output
- Also used for ATI Radeon 7-pin
- Apple iPod PocketDock Video Out (see this link)
- XFX (Nvidia) GeForce 8800GT Video Card TV-Out Port
[edit] 8-pin
[edit] 8-pin (b)
- ATI All-in-Wonder 9700 Pro 8-pin video-In connector
[edit] 9-pin
- Alternate Video In Video Out (VIVO) port connector
Some versions of the VIVO port on some ATI and Nvidia GeForce video cards used a 9-pin connector without the small metal bar to determine how the plug fit into the socket (instead, the 3 indentions in the outer ring were used.) See this link (4-connector version) as well as this link (6-connector version) for pinout mapping, and here for the ATI Radeon VIVO port pinout mapping.
- 9-pin Apple GeoPort connector
The Apple GeoPort used a 9-pin jack compatible with either an 8-pin or a 9-pin mini-DIN plug, and was able to be used with devices designed for either the 8-pin mini-DIN Macintosh serial port connector, or the additional GeoPort protocols.
Apple pin numbering follows the 8-pin DIN assignments, for compatibility with earlier Macintosh serial ports using the standard 8-pin connector. The additional pin is numbered 9 by Apple, and corresponds to pin 5 of a 9-pin mini-DIN plug. It is used for a 5V 350mA power supply available to the peripheral. Pins 5-8 of the GeoPort socket and the mini-DIN-8 plugs used with it then correspond to pins 6-9 respectively of the standard mini-DIN-9 plug.
[edit] 9-pin (b)
- Hypercom T7 Eftpos terminal
- Nvidia GForce S-Video 9 pin to YPbPr (YCbCr)
- Sigma EM8300 Video Card
[edit] 10-pin
[edit] 10-pin (b)
- ATI All-in-Wonder 9700 Pro (shows pinouts) (Video Out)
- Matrox G450 eTV S-Video/Composite
- Amino AmiNET STB series
[edit] Other non-standard connectors
- JVC Mini-DIN 8
- Sun Microsystems (3/80 and Sparcs) keyboards Mini-DIN 8
- Allen-Bradley Micrologix PLC Mini-DIN 8
- Beyerdynamic microphone connector
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- CablesToGo: DIN Connector Guide
- S-video to composite video adapter
- Action-Electronics.com: DIN Connectors, Mini-DIN Connectors, DIN Feed Thru, DVD Connectors
- ShowMe Cables: Mini-DIN Connectors
- Pacific Custom Cable Inc.: Mini Din Connectors
- Electronics 2000: Pin-out Data | Mini DIN Connectors
- Regal Electronics, Inc.: Din and Mini Din Connectors
- CDM electronics: DIN and Mini DIN Plugs
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