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From: William Miller on 17 Apr 2010 02:18
Anyone know where I can get connectors like these?

Again, 2mm pitch to insert stripped ribbon cable.
From: Peter Bennett on 17 Apr 2010 15:51
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:18:06 -0700 (PDT), William Miller
<prototech(a)usa.net> wrote:

>Anyone know where I can get connectors like these?
>
>Again, 2mm pitch to insert stripped ribbon cable.

I can't imagine any connector that would directly handle stripped
ribbon cable, as the individual conductors are very fine stranded wire
- if you were able to strip the wires, there would be much too much
chance of the conductors shorting to make such a connector practical.
The only connectors I've seen for ribbon cable are IDC types - the
unstripped, and unseparated, ribbon cable is pressed onto forked
contacts in the connector, which penetrate the cable insulation to
contact the wires.

I suspect that the connector you have is designed for use with a
flexible printed circuit cable, such as used to make connections to a
printer print head..


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From: Robert Baer on 18 Apr 2010 04:35
William Miller wrote:
> Anyone know where I can get connectors like these?
>
> Again, 2mm pitch to insert stripped ribbon cable.
There are IDC connectors for 2mm pitch; similar to those used in PCs
(IDE and FDC).
From: Robert Baer on 18 Apr 2010 04:37
Peter Bennett wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:18:06 -0700 (PDT), William Miller
> <prototech(a)usa.net> wrote:
>
>> Anyone know where I can get connectors like these?
>>
>> Again, 2mm pitch to insert stripped ribbon cable.
>
> I can't imagine any connector that would directly handle stripped
> ribbon cable, as the individual conductors are very fine stranded wire
> - if you were able to strip the wires, there would be much too much
> chance of the conductors shorting to make such a connector practical.
> The only connectors I've seen for ribbon cable are IDC types - the
> unstripped, and unseparated, ribbon cable is pressed onto forked
> contacts in the connector, which penetrate the cable insulation to
> contact the wires.
>
> I suspect that the connector you have is designed for use with a
> flexible printed circuit cable, such as used to make connections to a
> printer print head..
>
>
...and THAT is exactly what i mentioned and attempted to find, and cited
possible matches.
From: William Miller on 19 Apr 2010 09:39
On Apr 17, 3:51 pm, Peter Bennett <pete...(a)somewhere.invalid> wrote:
> I can't imagine any connector that would directly handle stripped
> ribbon cable, as the individual conductors are very fine stranded wire
> - if you were able to strip the wires, there would be much too much
> chance of the conductors shorting to make such a connector practical.
> The only connectors I've seen for ribbon cable are IDC types - the
> unstripped, and unseparated, ribbon cable is pressed onto forked
> contacts in the connector, which penetrate the cable insulation to
> contact the wires.

Rest assured: They're out there. They're pretty common.

The stripped strands don't separate because they are spiral wound
before the insulation is applied.

One of many examples is this one pointed by Rich (Thanks, Rich!) which
looks like just what I need:
http://www.molex.com/molex/products/datasheet.jsp?part=active/0521471210_RB_CBL_WR_TRP_CONN.xml&channel=Products&Lang=en-US

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