please help with lilliput touchscreen

**Yevmeister** · 01-07-2006, 12:00 AM

well, i have tried to open casing for lilliput, and accidentally damanged usb touchscreen flat orange cable

how do i solder it back, can i purchase a replacemtn anywhere

thank you very much for your help in advance,

Yev

**Motorcity** · 01-07-2006, 01:12 AM

Originally Posted by Yevmeister

well, i have tried to open casing for lilliput, and accidentally damanged usb touchscreen flat orange cable

how do i solder it back, can i purchase a replacemtn anywhere

thank you very much for your help in advance,

Yev

let's see....4 wires, all DIFFERENT colors, right? not too hard to figure out. (JK)
ask Armen for a new cable. www.diitalww.com

**kelseymonster** · 01-07-2006, 04:33 AM

post a pic of the cable that you broke... i may have an extra that i'll send you.. or at least assist in helping re[air what you have

**Yevmeister** · 01-07-2006, 09:43 AM

Originally Posted by kelseymonster

post a pic of the cable that you broke... i may have an extra that i'll send you.. or at least assist in helping re[air what you have

well digital WW away for weekend, i will attepmt to contact him later, i really would like to have a replacement rather the playing around, because i broke it in 2 places

my digital camera out of battery, but o photoshoped what connection looks like

and that's what the cable looks likt on the touchscreen

thank you,

Yev

**Motorcity** · 01-07-2006, 01:02 PM

oh you cut the cable on the touch panel. I thought you ment the cable that connects to ... never mind. That cable is not replaceable, and a repair attempt will most likely cause more harm than good. You are screwed. You need a new touch panel.

**Yevmeister** · 01-07-2006, 02:31 PM

Originally Posted by Motorcity

oh you cut the cable on the touch panel. I thought you ment the cable that connects to ... never mind. That cable is not replaceable, and a repair attempt will most likely cause more harm than good. You are screwed. You need a new touch panel.

oh come on there should be a solution can i just manually run copper strips

Yev

**phc** · 01-07-2006, 04:33 PM

Originally Posted by Yevmeister

oh come on there should be a solution can i just manually run copper strips

Yev

Good luck, I'd personally buy another. You don't have anything that you can solder to. But if you want to try to fix it, try this.

Conductive epoxy (basically epoxy with silver dust) - Expensive and hard to find locally
- or -
Rear defroster repair kit, any pep-boys/Kragen auto store will have it, basically a cheap version of the conductive epoxy.

I tried this one time with the repair it, ended up buying a new touch panel. Its messy stuff, doesn't stick very well and was hard to keep from shorting nearby connections.

**Motorcity** · 01-07-2006, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by Yevmeister

oh come on there should be a solution can i just manually run copper strips

Yev

Yes and no. The touch panel you have is a Resistive type. It is called this for a reason. It uses Resistance to determine location. By soldering wires, or running copper strips, epoxy paste, etc. you may change the resistance of the leads, and my cause touch calibration errors.
If your panel has soldered leads, like the first set of pictures I posted (from an ELO 5 wire resistive panel) then you could possibly just attach new wires and bypass the ribbon.
But, if yours is like the second set of pictures (Suntai touch panel)
then you may be doing a lot of work for nothing.
IMO, save the hassles, and spend the 50.00 on a new panel, or search the board for a used panel FS.

**Motorcity** · 01-07-2006, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by phc

Rear defroster repair kit, any pep-boys/Kragen auto store will have it, basically a cheap version of the conductive epoxy.

I tried this one time with the repair it, ended up buying a new touch panel. Its messy stuff, doesn't stick very well and was hard to keep from shorting nearby connections.

I use this stuff all the time to repair scratched traces on the touch panel itself, and it works great. But, I would scrap a panel before attempting to repair a ribbon. Just not worth my time.