Anyone ever work with these kinds of connectors, and if so, what were the results?
Hi Scott,
A little late response (he he) but nevertheless much appreciated. It's also nice to hear that someone has been around longer than i have (also ha ha).
I always suspected such because my personal experiments have always failed no matter what i did, with only one exception. That was, to build into the product a 'new' way to compress the old strip. This takes a lot of inventiveness though because we're often working inside spaces that are very small. The idea was to simply provide for more pressure between the glass and the circuit board such that the old strip gets more compressed than it was before.
With one old meter i had years ago, i had used one of those small black colored binder clips you get at stationary stores for keeping papers clipped together. The two metal wire 'handles' are removed after the clip was installed so all that was left was a binder clip body helping to keep the strip under more pressure against the glass and circuit board. It was just enough and happened to be the right size for the circuit board and the way they did it originally.
Anyway, for other meters it would probably take more inventiveness than that, perhaps installing some very small springs along the length or something.
I was looking for a better solution, but from what you say it appears that there just isnt any better when you cant get a replacement part.
A Great thread... I've had good results with isopropanol, by being almost sterile in cleaning, handling & reassembly. Also used little shims under the twist tabs to add some force. Thankfully, haven't had to do any of this more than a few (<5) times.
I suspect the pitch of conductors may be standard (or few variants) in elastomeric strips, but thickness (width?) might vary more. All the types of backlighting (or not) would contribute to this. Good Stuff, TNX 2 All <<<)))
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