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please help me to identify type of wire???

this type of wire is use for connecting two pcb's.

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What do you exactly mean with identify? It's a flat jumper cable which can be characterized by number of circuits, spacing, length, wire diameter. Carrier can be plastics or paper. You mainly need a measuring tape and/or slide gauge to determine the parameters

For repair purposes, you'll most likely want to replace it by a number of individual wires.
 
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What do you exactly mean with identify? It's a flat jumper cable which can be characterized by number of circuits, spacing, length, wire diameter. Carrier can be plastics or paper. You mainly need a measuring tape and/or slide gauge to determine the parameters

For repair purposes, you'll most likely want to replace it by a number of individual wires.
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thank you i just want the name " flate paper jumper".
 

Yes both jtronix and BradtheRad are correct. You can choose what you want to call it. Note this type of cables have a color on the first cable strand which shows where to start counting from. i.e 1,2,3,4...
 

Hi marce,

In your post you said "It is not ribbon cable actually" . So what do you refer that as. Pls I am interested in your view.

Cheers
 

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I am probably being over pedantic but this is more often called "Flat Flexible Cable", whereas "Ribbon Cable" is usually round cored cable (multi strand or single core, more often multi strand), nit picking. These generally go in FFC connectors where as ribbon cables tend to go have a connector at each end and plug into sockets on the PCB.
 
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this is more often called "Flat Flexible Cable"
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Also "jumper cable" or "flat jumper cable", as previously mentioned. I also found "ribbon jumper cable" for jumper cable with round conductors at one manufacturer. "Ribbon cable" as such is an unspecific term, mostly used for cables used with IDC connectors.

I appreciate pedantry in this case, a little more of it ( or let's say systematics) applied by catalog authors would avoid a lot of fruitless guessing.
 
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I am probably being over pedantic but this is more often called "Flat Flexible Cable", whereas "Ribbon Cable" is usually round cored cable (multi strand or single core, more often multi strand), nit picking. These generally go in FFC connectors where as ribbon cables tend to go have a connector at each end and plug into sockets on the PCB.
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It doesn't look like FFC to me. FFC is flat and for putting into FFC connectors. The original image shows what looks like single cores of solid wire and could be soldered directly to a through hole PCB. FFC cannot be used in that way - the conductors are a thin copper layer on a flexible membrane.

Keith.
 

Ditto about FFC - this is FFC and you can see that you do not solder the ends.
It is certainly not FFC. (Soz Marc lol)

Looks like a plain old "flex jumper" or "Flexistrip"

Can be found from most suppliers.
If you google that term you will find many suppliers.

I.E. https://www.te.com/catalog/minf/en/161

A guide to them is in the above link.

Usually got a paper coating because its cheap stuff.
 

Well they are Flat
Flexible
and Cable
:-D
the higher voltage and current ones I have used have looked like the ones shown, I'm not as cheap as Matt and use plastic backing:-D
 

No, its not flat ribbon cable - that comes in long lengths.
This is a flat jumper cable as mentioned above - it has pre prepared solder-able ends.
 


The Molex "ribbon cable jumpers" use a special design with tin pre-bonded strands that can easily soldered to PCBs. You can't do that with a regular "ribbon" cable.

For the flex jumpers from thrive.cn, a chinese copy of an AMP product, the name "ribbon" has been just added by the distributor.
 

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