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Is anyone using a good shop to make custom ribbon cable assemblies? Any recommendations?

This would be for production, hundreds at a time maybe. My production people have been making them, but they are kinda busy now.

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John Larkin
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fredag den 21. august 2020 kl. 00.40.29 UTC+2 skrev John Larkin:

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Lasse Langwadt Christensen

Thanks, we could use them for some of the assemblies.

I've been told that they don't make all the variants that we need.

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John Larkin

fredag den 21. august 2020 kl. 02.20.33 UTC+2 skrev John Larkin:

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Lasse Langwadt Christensen

So, how much of a deal is price for stuff like this for you ?

In fact, do you have much competition for what you build ?

We have wiring but no cable assemblies really. We also have competition.

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boB

Not big. We want quality and good service.

We hate competition. We avoid it. It drives prices down.

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John Larkin

There are many, many cable manufacturing companies, many of them do board a ssembly and also assembly of units. I have worked with several who are goo d, but they are east coast. I can't see the advantage of long distance shi pping when I can get things done relatively locally. If you want a name, A DCI in Frederick, MD is good. They can lower their prices by using an asse mbly house in North Carolina which is my current board fab shop. Once I go t them set up on the test fixture they seemed to do well.

I don't think flat ribbon cables are rocket science and I would expect near ly everyone to be able to make them properly. When I've had assembly work done and had problems, it was not quality of work issues. There might be h uman errors of some sort but usually it had to do with other issues.

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Ricketty C

I buy a ribbon cable for a production board through Digi-Key. In my case, it is one of their standards, a 14-pin connector on each end of a 6" ribbon. But, they have a system where you enter the type of connector, length between connectors and such and it comes up with an order number for it.

Jon

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Jon Elson

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