Alright, this might sound a bit crazy, and I know there’s goning to be people who are going to laugh at me for asking, but…
Does anyone have any idea how to get the electrical contacts on a 0.4mm narrow pitch connector to a prototype board?
To help people realize how small this is, I took a picture:
http://cowboy.directgames.net:81/temp/4pitch.jpg
HAHA, yes, thats a weller ETS tip and a ball point pen tip. These contact leads are VERY small. This is from an LCD display I obtained recently. This is an AXK7L series connector from panasonic, but trying to find a sample mating end for this socket has come to a dead end. The mating connector cannot be purchased anywhere I’ve found and I’ve tried to contact panasonic sales and no luck.
So my only option is to mate this connector myself.
The mechanical data sheet can be found here:
http://cowboy.directgames.net:81/temp/4pitch.pdf
The solution I’ve come up with so far is to make a breakout board (with batchpcb of course) and create a foot print that follows the connector contacts, then “mate” the connector to the solder track footprints, heat up the track and form a weld contact (probably very very weak) between the board and the connector pin.
If anyone can help out, give ideas, propose a better solution, I’m open!
Thanks,
cowboy