The host had moved servers which had messed up the paths.  It's hopefully fixed now might but you might have to redo a recent attachment.

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I think the host has moved us to a different server. I'll have a look.

What is the model number of the screen and where in the world are you?
just wondering

Hi Chocochan,

I can't imagine you would experience any problems using a larger ziff connector than required, at least I can't think of a good reason why you would so long as the pinouts match.

As an alternative though, you might be able to use some 3M 9703 Anisotropic tape (conductive only in z-axis) to join another piece of FFC ribbon to make your own extension, I believe this tape can join FFC ribbon down to a pitch of 0.4mm. Not tried it myself but it's a solution that 3M themselves suggest on their site. I've seen small pieces on ebay for a few £ so not too expensive either.

Can you not just buy a longer 45pin FFC cable? Can't imagine that'd be too expensive. Actually I think I might have done this before some time ago when I build a projector with the help of LumenLab (which I'm not sure are still active), I'll have a think about where I might have got it from. You'll need to know the pitch of the ribbon though (which is likely to be 0.5mm I would think).

Maybe something like:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/45-Pins-POWER-RIBBON-FFC-CABLE-AWM-20624-80C-60V-VW-1-/271029503898

or
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AWM-20798-RIBBON-FLEX-CABLE-0-50-mm-pitch-45-PIN-800mm-45PIN-80cm-/221075277566?pt=US_Audio_Cables_Adapters&hash=item33791d06fe (should be long enough)

Good find, what sort of voodoo is this?

Sooooo. I came back from Frankfurt (end of 2010)  where I was working on Crysis 2 , got a job in a small town nearby doing dance/fitness/kids games.   
End of last year company starts getting shaky, and I end up being cross-hired out to Playground Games for several months working on...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jpa2seM4WA&feature=related

And it's now at E3, where there are these:
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And we're getting some of these:
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[The Melmaq!]

The Melmaq!


-   HP dv2000 14.1" LCD WXGA and the R.RM5251C LCD Controller Board
-   Intuos3 A4 PTZ-930G




Link

This topic has been moved to Successful builds!.

http://forum.bongofish.co.uk/index.php?topic=1915.0

More details in the trading post if you want to buy one, but meanwhile here's a pic.

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Can I ask what panel it is?

Also I'll host the pics locally to prevent losing them further down the line.

I like the easel by the way - very meta

This topic has been moved to The Trading post.

http://forum.bongofish.co.uk/index.php?topic=2076.0

This topic has been moved to The Trading post.

http://forum.bongofish.co.uk/index.php?topic=2080.0

The forum database had reached it's limit without me noticing and locked all access out. (doh)

It's all been scrubbed and polished now so we should be fine for a decent amount of time,   I'll be culling the memberlist a bit as well.   

1. Jitter
2. LCDs are fragile
3. Cleanroom or bust
4. Paint

I'd go with 2. 

Jitter - Look at other people builds and use a known good combination, shielding and changing refresh rates helps a lot as well.
The cleanroom thing you can get round by being very careful not to separate the panel layers, you could bag them while working as well.
Paint is difficult, that's true,  but you could always not paint your case.

But fragile LCDs? - That bites a LOT of people.   

Yes - It really took me six weeks to find enough consecutive hours to do it...

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It's the new screen with the old CCFL lamp, the old one seemed brighter, presumably that's why the second screen was being sold so cheap.
This time I left the metal backing to the lamp in place, just to see what happened.
It's a bit brighter, and there were no adverse effects on the handling, which was a surprise. 

The viewing angles seem better as well. I'm wondering if this is a later revision of the panel.