ribbon cable shop...

[John Larkin]

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.

 

[Lasse Langwadt Christensen]

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

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.

https://www.digikey.com/en/supplier-centers/3m/cable-assemblies ?

 

[John Larkin]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 16:02:33 -0700 (PDT), Lasse Langwadt Christensen
<langwadt@fonz.dk> wrote:

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

https://www.digikey.com/en/supplier-centers/3m/cable-assemblies ?

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.

 

[Lasse Langwadt Christensen]

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

On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 16:02:33 -0700 (PDT), Lasse Langwadt Christensen
langwadt@fonz.dk> wrote:

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

https://www.digikey.com/en/supplier-centers/3m/cable-assemblies ?

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.

http://dirtypcbs.com/store/cables

 

[boB]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:40:17 -0700, John Larkin
<jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote:

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.

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.

 

[John Larkin]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 17:48:20 -0700, boB <boB@K7IQ.com> wrote:

On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:40:17 -0700, John Larkin
jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote:

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.



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

Not big. We want quality and good service.

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

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

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

 

[Ricketty C]

On Thursday, August 20, 2020 at 8:50:46 PM UTC-4, John Larkin wrote:

On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 17:48:20 -0700, boB <boB@K7IQ.com> wrote:

On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:40:17 -0700, John Larkin
jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote:

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.



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

Not big. We want quality and good service.


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

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


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

There are many, many cable manufacturing companies, many of them do board assembly and also assembly of units. I have worked with several who are good, but they are east coast. I can\'t see the advantage of long distance shipping when I can get things done relatively locally. If you want a name, ADCI in Frederick, MD is good. They can lower their prices by using an assembly house in North Carolina which is my current board fab shop. Once I got 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 nearly 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 human errors of some sort but usually it had to do with other issues.

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[Jon Elson]

John Larkin wrote:

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.

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