Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange
Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [ribbon-cable]

Ribbon cable has multiple insulated wires bonded together and running parallel to each other. Because the wires run across a flat plane they tend to be wide and flat resembling a ribbon hence the name. Ribbon cables are often designed to be used in conjunction with insulation-displacement connectors (IDC).

96 questions
17
votes
3 answers

How to strip a ribbon cable?

Is there any tool to strip ribbon cables (all wires at once)? It's too time consuming and error prone to do it one by one.
csadam
  • 1,626
  • 2
  • 16
  • 24
12
votes
1 answer

What is this Ribbon Cable Connector called?

Even after extensive scrolling through Google Image Search, I could not find this connector or one similar to it: I am especially interested in finding the mating connector.
Konstantin Werner
  • 173
  • 6
12
votes
4 answers

Why do cables have multiple grounds?

Many cables have multiple grounds. Why? For example, according to Wikipedia: The SATA standard defines a data cable with seven conductors (3 grounds and 4 active data lines in two pairs) and 8 mm wide wafer connectors on each end. In general (not…
RockPaperLz- Mask it or Casket
  • 315
  • 1
  • 7
  • 20
8
votes
2 answers

Pinout for board to board ribbon cable

Update/significant change: The question below is based on a false premise: taking into account that an IDC with keys pointing out from the cable on both ends swaps the front and back rows, simply rotating one of the connectors gives a 1 -> 1 mapping…
Timo
  • 1,179
  • 1
  • 12
  • 30
5
votes
2 answers

Considerations For Motor Cables: what are the downsides to ribbon cable?

My friend (a Mechanical Engineering student) is building machine that uses an array of motors in an application where they are under almost no load. He showed me the thin, old, ribbon cable he intends to use to power them, and it seemed like a bad…
Sebastian Immel
  • 63
  • 6
4
votes
1 answer

Why bridge the GND wire on a DE-9 connector?

Why would someone want to bridge the GND wire to the metal shield of a DE-9 connector? Take a look at the picture below. A 10 position flat ribbon cable is soldered to a DE-9 connector (male). On position 5 (GND) a short piece of wire is soldered,…
Samir
  • 151
  • 1
  • 9
4
votes
1 answer

Short circuit in ribbon cable

My ribbon cable assemblies are creating intermittent short circuits that cause my Atmega328p microprocessor to spontaneously reset. The setup: 60-conductor .05 ribbon cable made by 3M (long ago when prices were more reasonable than today), separated…
Walter Oney
  • 41
  • 3
4
votes
3 answers

What tool is used to crimp DIP connectors onto ribbon cable?

I have to attach some 14-pin DIP headers (looks like these) to a 14-connector ribbon cable. I have the headers and the cable, but realize I don't know how to crimp them on correctly. I'm sure there's a tool for this, but most ribbon cable crimp…
BZo
  • 1,575
  • 1
  • 11
  • 22
4
votes
3 answers

Fixing/Replacing Conductor Ribbon Cable

I tried to fix a keyboard that was having some intermittent issues by cleaning the conductors on the ribbon cable. I used an emery-board to rub off the rust and patina on the pins at the end of the ribbon, but it turns out that the pins are really…
Synetech
  • 363
  • 2
  • 4
  • 12
4
votes
3 answers

Ribbon cable PCB connector repair

I've been asked to help repair a keyboard. On examining the keyboard I found the issues (circled) in the below image: A tear in the middle of the ribbon cable A tear across the end of the short side of the cable where it entered the PCB…
Tom
  • 143
  • 1
  • 1
  • 3
3
votes
5 answers

Locking ribbon-cable in place

There is ribbon cable which is connected with a locking mechanism as in the picture below. The brown plastic locker is not locking properly, is there a way to get another locker and lock it in place with something else, for example glue?
Gunnish
  • 658
  • 1
  • 8
  • 20
3
votes
1 answer

AMW ribbon cable

I'm a software developer with a little hobby project involving an embedded system. I have a debug board hooked up to another printed circuit board. The connection between the two boards is via this little ribbon cable as pictured below and here. If…
selbie
  • 133
  • 1
  • 4
3
votes
1 answer

How should I connect these kind of cables?

I bought this screen from eBay - https://www.ebay.com/itm/183565808942 But I can't seem to connect the cable to the controller board. How does one connect/disconnect this type of cable?
dashman
  • 199
  • 7
3
votes
1 answer

SPI to Numerous Chips on Different PCBs with FFC Cables?

I want to drive numerous chips on several different PCBs with SPI from a microcontroller over FFC cables. Here is a crude diagram: UPDATE: Green wires are ground scheme I have never attempted such a layout and someone has warned that capacitance…
squarewav
  • 1,440
  • 1
  • 14
  • 33
3
votes
2 answers

Ribbon Cable Noise Susceptibility

As part of a product upgrade we are looking at replacing looms of wires bound together by cable ties or spiral wrap with ribbon cable. We are doing this to try and cut cost and assembly times. We are happy with the current noise performance of the…
Hugoagogo
  • 2,405
  • 3
  • 22
  • 29
1
2 3 4 5 6 7