Hi all, After disassembling my laptop one-too-many times, I wore out the little flat ribbon cable that attaches the touchpad to the motherboard. I am trying to find where I can get a replacement, and hoped that maybe someone on the newsgroup could help.
It is a UL 2896 style cable, apparently, with 12 conductors on a pitch of 0.5 mm and about 0.3 mm thick. The ends are stripped and tinned on one side and thickened with plastic on the other, so that it can be inserted manually into connectors on the circuit boards. This document seems to describe the cable type quite accurately:
The trouble is that I can't find any vendor who will sell small lengths to consumers!!! Does anyone know where I can buy this type of cable? DigiKey has a few similar things listed, but nothing that's UL style
2896.
Thanks for any advice,
Dan Lenski