where to find a replacement NDS lite P6 connector?

kid sinister · Post by **kid sinister** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 9:29 pm

I hope somebody here can help me... I was trying to repair a broken touchscreen for a friend's DS lite, and I accidentally broke the motherboard connector for the touchscreen. "P6" was silkscreened next to it. I'm pretty handy with soldering, but does anybody know where I could find a replacement SMD connector, or what that type of connector is even called?

palmertech · Post by **palmertech** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 10:50 pm

Re-soldering that thing is near impossible.

I had this problem once, what I did was scrape the enamel off the ribbon cable at different points along it, one for each of the 4 traces, soldered wires to those, then soldered that to the board, bypassing the need for a connector.

Genius, eh?

kid sinister · Post by **kid sinister** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:48 pm

Why didn't I think of something that obvious?

What gauge wire did you use? I might have to special order wire that tiny, my local electronics shop doesn't have anything that small. I'd imagine that I could steal one strand from a larger stranded cable, but I'd like something insulated to eliminate the possibility of shorts...

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 1:24 pm

I think this is the kind of wire you see in most mods nowadays. I'm gonna get some of it, soldering with stranded IDE wires sucks. Theres always a strand or two that doesn't want to be with the others.

palmertech · Post by **palmertech** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 3:59 pm

I used some insulated wire from a VGA cable, very thin.