Pad Upgrade - Broken connector!!

Hey,

I just got the new pad upgrade and possibly fiddled around with it too much! So the green connector strip has a tiny rip in it and because of this the top four pads dont work!! Just wondering if anyone knows how i could fix the rip to reconnect the strip??

Thanks a lot!

Geoff

Very difficult to fix....i am afraid that you will have to order a new sensor board.

You can't solder or glue it together.

First thing you should never do with these type of connector cables is fold it.

RodmanSan wrote:You can't solder or glue it together.

Actually you can bridge the broken traces by soldering a very thin wire to them. You would have to scrape the plastic off to expose the traces.

You will lose the flexibility in the ribbon cable though, any movement may end up breaking the traces again -- it's worth a shot if you were going to throw out the sensor anyway...

Cheers for the help!

I scraped away the plastic and used conductive paint, then put plastic around so no pressure would be put on the fixed area....works like a charm! nice one

Congratulations on your fix!

When you did the repair, did you trace paint both sides, or just one? Just curious... I'd probably consider doing both sides, but it also could weaken the plastic too much I suppose.

I did both sides but had to be really careful not to scrape into each side too much or else nothing would be left as its quite thin...it did weaken it quite a bit so reinforcing it with a strip of plastic to take the stress off the area is pretty essential...