ID this audio connector please

[Notsure Fire]

I have this audio cable which I can successfully plug into my laptop to use an auxillary connection for the sound. However when I bought a 3.5mm extension cable, it wouldn't fit. So now I need to know what this one is called so I can buy the same one only longer. Thanks for helping me out.

 

[Morelite]

I have this audio cable which I can successfully plug into my laptop to use an auxillary connection for the sound. However when I bought a 3.5mm extension cable, it wouldn't fit. So now I need to know what this one is called so I can buy the same one only longer. Thanks for helping me out.

looks like an 1/8" male audio plug.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

looks like an 1/8" male audio plug.

Gosh, it almost looks like that to me. Normally a mini-phone plug like that would have a solid, rounded male tip at the end. This pictured appears to show a female receptacle at the tip, as if it's a hybrid of a 1/8" mini-phone plug and a dc power "wall wart" plug. Something tells me this is a semi-custom product.

 

[Morelite]

Your right PW, after a second look that plug doesn't have the right tip to be a mini plug.

 

[Notsure Fire]

I don't think its a custom one because my laptop's headphone outlet accepts only this plug, which is why I'm needing the name of it, so that I can buy a new one. I got an HP 530 btw.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

This is puzzling. The HP manual refers to it simply as a "stereo headphone jack." From that spec I'd assume it's a regular 1/8" mini-phone plug, but the photo of that cable suggests otherwise.
:thinking:

 

[bluecrow76]

It looks like a regular headphone connector that has lost the top conductor.

 

[StarHalo]

The top conductor is probably stuck in the jack, which is why your extension cable that should fit now doesn't. You'll have to pop open the laptop and push out the conductor bit from the inside out, unless you have a remarkably fine needle-nose pair of pliers..

 

[PhotonWrangler]

It looks like a regular headphone connector that has lost the top conductor.

Doh! That's the answer, Bluecrow! An extension cable for this is available at any Radio Shack. Just ask for a 3.5mm stereo audio extension cord.

 

[Notsure Fire]

lol, bluecrow was right, I just realized it myself, and with the right pair of tweezers from my Pig Dissection kit from Biology class, I was able to take out the top of the 3.5mm plug. Sorry for the confusion, I appreciate all the help.

 

[bluecrow76]

tweezers from my Pig Dissection kit

Also known as the highly technical laptop diagnosis kit! :twothumbs My mom would be proud... she's a biology major. Good job getting it fixed!

 

[Norm]

The top conductor is probably stuck in the jack, which is why your extension cable that should fit now doesn't. You'll have to pop open the laptop and push out the conductor bit from the inside out, unless you have a remarkably fine needle-nose pair of pliers..

StarHalo's diagnosis seems spot on to me your picture shows a standard miniature head phone plug with the tip broken off.
Norm

 

[csshih]

good thinking, I wouldn't have thought of that myself :shrug: