I needed to shield a short segment (about 1 foot) of 10-wire ribbon cable for this sort of connector:
So I naturally did some searching in Newark and Digikey and was flabbergasted with the prices per meter of this thing!
After some thought, I decided to improvise, and was quite pleased with the results. What I did is I soldered a piece of #22 jumper wire to the connector's case and ran in along the ribbon cable as shown in the previous image.
After that, I wrapped the thing in aluminum foil, and then used a piece of shrink tube to contain it.
In the end, I simply crimped the 2x5 header connector to the wire, and lo and behold! the assembly is working beautifully.
I'm posting this little hack in the hope that it might come in handy for someone else out there.
So I naturally did some searching in Newark and Digikey and was flabbergasted with the prices per meter of this thing!
After some thought, I decided to improvise, and was quite pleased with the results. What I did is I soldered a piece of #22 jumper wire to the connector's case and ran in along the ribbon cable as shown in the previous image.
After that, I wrapped the thing in aluminum foil, and then used a piece of shrink tube to contain it.
In the end, I simply crimped the 2x5 header connector to the wire, and lo and behold! the assembly is working beautifully.
I'm posting this little hack in the hope that it might come in handy for someone else out there.
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