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lungta

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Joined: August 23, 2005

Posted: September 16, 2005 at 7:19 PM / IP Logged

Hey,

i need to get either a longer ribbon cable or splice mine up to add a couple inches to the one i have.It is the ribbon cable that goes from a 6.5" pioneer monitor to the board for the buttons. The one i have is litteraly 1" long and i need to get at least another 1". The ribbon is 1/2" wide and has 14 conductor. I would need a microscope to cut in half and solder some more wire. Does anybody know where i could get any ? Thanks

Here are the pics of the cable and the plug it goes in.

http://mikael.nicol.free.fr/ribboncable.jpg

http://mikael.nicol.free.fr/ribboncablefemale.jpg

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lungta

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Joined: August 23, 2005

Posted: September 16, 2005 at 7:25 PM / IP Logged

sorry it is actually 0.3" wide instead of 1/2"

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lungta

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Posted: September 16, 2005 at 9:15 PM / IP Logged

anybody ???

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Dsteinmann

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Joined: January 01, 2005

Posted: September 18, 2005 at 5:50 PM / IP Logged

Just solder a wire from each board to the board ? 14 times

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RalphWiggum

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Joined: January 15, 2004

Location: United States

Posted: September 23, 2005 at 12:56 AM / IP Logged

Use a cut up pice of computer hard drive ribbon cable

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audiointl

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Joined: October 18, 2005

Location: United States

Posted: October 19, 2005 at 1:00 AM / IP Logged

listen to RALPH....splicing is NEVER GOOD. Go as direct as possible.

Everything I touch turns to ICE

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Ween

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Location: Illinois, United States

Posted: October 19, 2005 at 3:01 PM / IP Logged

hi,

with using a ruler...metric and/or english units, carefully measure the pitch (spacing between the centers of the conductor pads). Mouser and Digi-Key both have many options, i.e. pitch, # of cond.& length available. I'm betting you could find a piece from them to use. search flat flex cable. hope this helps.

mark

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dxav

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Location: United States

Posted: October 21, 2005 at 5:10 PM / IP Logged

Ween had the right idea. You may also be able to find the connector, but not a PCB mount type, that matches. It is definitely better to find the pitch and match it up. The Digikey live help is quite useful, too. They should be able to find a solution.

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Preservedswine

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Posted: October 27, 2005 at 6:26 PM / IP Logged

if anyone finds a source for this cable- pls post it!

I need one as well.....

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