Experiencing something similar. The gold ends on mine became entangled after taking them out connector and trying to straighten them made the problem worse. Luckily I have another damaged cable and will be looking to use this video as a guide to join both together. Both of them have one side with good pins so hopefully this goes well
A tip, you can use a thin Diamond file or sand paper to exposed the copper instead and it works well if you place a card under it to raise that section while wearing away the casing
Thank you so much for your video! It saved me money and time while trying to make my Toyota Corolla E12 a/c control panel to work. Finding the exact replacement for the existing FFC was kind of a puzzle but as soon as I watched your video I thought I'd give it a try. Half an hour and a couple of attempts later it worked and I'm very happy! Thanks again and all the best to you my friend!
Man you put a smile on my face when I was trying to fix my harman kardon go play thinking it was dead. I fixed the broken cable with a cutter and my speaker was alive again, thank you!
Thank You, very helpful video! a flex cable, ( i called it a ribbon cable!) in my epson scanner was partly cut when the hinge broke, so it looks like i can adapt your method to join the cut wires as it only cut the first 2. thanks again!
I found it much easier to melt the insulation with a knife blade on a soldering iron and then scrape and tin, just have to be careful of fumes as I suspect it is PVC.
Thanks for your suggestion. I kept damaging the cable with a knife because it is very small. With the soldering iron blade it slowly got the plastic off and kept the metal prongs from flaking off or bending, as the heat kept the tracks in place. Thanks a lot.
Actually i already doing this b4 watching this video, not that easy since the strip is can easily lifted if u miss the connector,3rd attempt finally worked
Hi Super random question I had to repair a 6 wire ribbon cable for my ps3 power buttton but some of the copper wire further down is also exposed the part that does not go inside the slot is this bad or would it be fine to use and does it matter what rotation the flex cable goes in>
Be fine to use even though some copper exposes. You could wrap a small piece of electrical tape around the section that's exposes. Orientation of cable in the socket matters yes. Check it against images on the Web for which way it should go
Great video. The blue ends on both sides of my connector have cut off, so I can't see any exposed cable, it is a 5mm width Sumitomo-G AVM 20624 80c 60v VW-1 -F- 4 pin cable, can I just buy another off Ebay or are they specific to each device ? Also what does Forward or Reverse mean when buying the cables and what is the pitch ? I have no idea what mine is. Also are both ends of the cables the same or do I need to make sure I keep the broken off blue connector end from the bottom of the cable as always the bottom one or are they interchangeable ? Thanks again.
Is there any way to fix this kind of ribbon cable if the trace or the wire or whatever it is... the spine is completely pulled out of the plastic housing only one row. Somehow mine pulled out almost like a thread but it's still somewhat connected on both ends just loose
So I took off my blue thing on the ribbon cable but I rlly don’t know how I’m gonna put it back do I just use glue to put it back or anyone suggest a method that worked for them
Just glue back on with super glue. Its there to provide mechanical strength at end of cable and increase its thickness at the end to ensure good electrical connection
Nice informative video. Is there any way to connect a 26 pin ribbon cable to the board having flex cable connector (for the use of flex cables like in the video)? Please help. Actually the board with ribbon cable connector on it, is not manufactured nowadays, so want to use new board having thin flex cable connector on it. Is there any adapter available?
Hi Thanks for the comment. If you look on Ali Express there are some FFC breakout boards that break out FFC cable to PCB solderpoints.. Might be of use?
Only thing to do is cut the damaged end off and stick the plastic blue or red backing to the end again and scratch with a knife to expose the tracks. You need spare length in the cable tho
Mine is from a laptop power button I over bent it and got broken, what happens if I just solder it all together, or is there any way to splice it to bring the two piece back together?
@@slitslut3002 fixed mine by scratching both ends of the broken ribbon then taped it and applied pressure by improvising a clip made out of thin piece of metal then covered it again with electrical tape lol had to improvise since i can't find a compatible ribbon cable
Very bad practices. Not to be recommended. There are far better instructional vids on YT about adaptation and configuration of FFCs. But if you can, just replace the cable. I doesn't cost the world.
Indeed, it is dangerous. Use FFC to DIP adapters rather than scrapping the insulation like savages. During a maintenance job of my laptop, the ribbon cable connecting the USB hub to motherboard was damaged, I was desperate and tried this method, the moment I powered the device it started to burn and melt. Horrible scenario...! Thankfully none of the components were damaged. Simple buy a new one, calculating the pitch is easy, divide the width of the cable with the number of terminals.
Nice but it's not so easy with relatively narrow cables. I failed to strip plastics on one end of 6 mm laptop ffc. The wires are much thin and can easily breaking. But thanks, anyway.
Sorry what I meant to say was how do you go about what you're doing in your video but with a ribbon cable that has a tapered end that plugs into the connector, it's a different size so I can't really cut it or else it will be a different shape pretty much where the gold plates are
Hey bud. Tape both ends of the ffc cable to flat surface and thrn tape doenba metal ruler covering 18 connectors. Then use sharp knife and slowly run along the ruler to cut off the 6 tracks that you dont need
@@chazj1976 lol ya I just got my order off Amazon an they gave me the 14 pin when I needed the 12 🙄 thinking of just cutting the spare 2 lines off allllll the off the ribbon, probably just going to return the order 😑
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