Of my two main 3D printers (the fast, coreXY Flashforge Adventurer 5M printers), on one of them, the ribbon cable to the touchscreen has suffered delamination of the metallic lead tabs from the ribbon itself, right at the end point were it gets inserted into the touchscreen, and the ribbon cable is now unusable. I’ve sent word to support.
Some time ago, somewhere I heard the phrase (from an engineering perspective) “Two is one, and one is none.” My two printers are currently only one. If I’d had only one, I’d currently have none (of the fast ones).
In a pinch I could fall back on a slow, old one. Just saying the wisdom of the phrase, rings true.
The printer is Klipper, but all the interface stuff (Moonraker, Fluidd, Mainsail) is on the touchscreen, so since the touchscreen is not connected, the Klipper install on the main board is not reachable.
The touchscreen’s processor basically takes the place of a Raspberry Pi in this setup.
I will post a photo. In this photo, I had already tried and given up on it, then in a hail mary effort, trimmed the tip off with scissors, but the remaining parts of the metallic tabs were also delaminated (problem went further than I could cut off).
This is my major complaint with the enclosure. The magnets holding the screen aren’t even close to as secure as the clip to the frame. I’ve knocked the screen off of the enclosure too many times already, and that ribbon cable scares me for that reason.
Have a search on Amazon for a FFC Ribbon Flat Flexible Cable, 40 Pin. You should be able to find a replacement of the correct length. There are plenty here in the UK
We were developing autonomous trucks. We had a contract with 10 of them. One was always working, the other nine were always getting work done.
The limit isn’t the number of machines, it is the number of techs to work on them. They have to get one working and they work on the others on the back burner.
FWIW, we were developing new things so reliability wasn’t our primary focus at the time.
