Peter TB Brett wrote:
> I'd appreciate it if someone could recommend a FFC connector that's known to
> be suitable for interfacing to the Samosa bus on B3. Since I don't actually
> have a Balloon around for me to look at when doing my PCB layout, some idea
> of where on the board it needs to go would be quite helpful too!
Farnell 111-2561 works for me. Although cheap and nasty in some ways,
the Omron flip-up connectors like that one can contact the FFC on both
top and bottom sides, which is handy when the PCB layout turns out to
be back to front. Not that that's ever happened to me, you understand
<cough>.
As for where the connector is, it's J6 on the right hand side of this
diagram:
http://www.balloonboard.org/hardware/300/Balloon3.0V1_Overlay_Top.pdf
It's a top-contact FFC connector and pin 1 is at the bottom, next to U10.
HTH
Chris
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