2.5mm to 3.5mm stereo jack

Daniel Spies daniel.spies at fuceekay.com
Thu Apr 24 09:57:09 CEST 2008


There are 3.5mm 4 conductor/ring jacks:
http://www.cui.com/adtemplate.asp?invky=351238&catky=619701&subcatky1=146389&subcatky2=554332&subcatky3=

I indeed need the microphone...

Daniel

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:30:05 +0200, "Erland Lewin" <erland at lewin.nu> wrote:
> I'm just guessing here, but I think the 2.5 mm jack/plug has 4 rings, for
> stereo audio + microphone. If you wanted to add a standard 3.5 mm stereo
> jack, you'd probably have to lose the microphone. Do you really want
that?
> 
> Computer headsets often have two plugs, one for microphone, and one for
> audio.
> 
> /Erland
> 
> 
> 2008/4/24, Daniel Spies <daniel.spies at fuceekay.com>:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I wonder if it could be possible to replace the 2.5mm stereo jack with a
>> 3.5mm stereo jack. I see no usage for the 2.5mm connector as all
>> headphones
>> and all headsets I know have a 3.5mm jack. Therefor I always would have
> to
>> use a adaptor which will probably be annoying in the long term.
>>
>> Someone has a glue if I could replace the 2.5mm connector and slighly
>> modify the housing (increase the drill diameter) of the Freerunner?
> Would
>> it fit in?
>>
>> Thanks for your comments!
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
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