I've got a bunch of these nice bare CCDs that I'm using for various things. One thing that is a huge PITA, is trying to enable certain features (Auto-iris, flip,zoom,etc) as the connectors are so darn small, and my hands are a bit on the shaky side. Does anyone know what these are called (the one indicated by the arrow)? Even better, does anyone know if anyone sells them with leads attached? I've found similar plugs with leads, but not for anything this small. The CCDs came with them, but only one wire is in the connector. I originally used some Molex SL connectors and flattened them so they'd bite on the tiny header pins, but they don't hold over time and using adjacent pins is tricky. It looks quite messy, but mating a CS mount to them involves filing the holes out as they are non-standard and the mount would otherwise short out some traces. Otherwise, they are very nice CCDs. Any suggestions or tips on how to solder to them would be appreciated as well.
What's the gap between pins? If it were me, I would get some ribbon cable soldered to the other side of the board.
Ribbon cable is probably not a bad idea. Unfortunately, the leads don't go through to the other side of the board. I'm not sure on the spacing. I guess I could throw it on a scanner to find out. Don't know why I didn't think of that before.
If the pins don't go through, I would use a hot knife to remove the white plastic, then solder the ribbon cable to the pins. Trouble is this only works while you have ribbon cable of the exact same pitch as that of the pins.
They look like some kind of IDC DIL socket, but the corners arent standard, you wont find any self assembly plugs or anything
Could we maybe get a better picture and another angle? I've seen those connectors used inside laptops, but I don't know the part name for them. Sometimes they will be mated to small ribbon cables. Particularly, I've seen similar connectors on the inverter boards for laptop screens, but those only have four pins if I remember correctly.
