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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
But the interesting thing is the question originator Mr.Jtronix got a satisfactory answer in the first reply itself and we are still running behind it:lol:
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.