Durable Ribbon Cable

[TuttiFrutti]

Are there any durable 12 pin ribbon cables for the PS4 controller? I open my controllers often and the contacts on the oem seem to bend very easily. I know there?s another brownish version for the touchpad but anything like that for the charging port?

[wickated]

just cut off crippled lamels with scissors

[TuttiFrutti]

Ok so when they are bent they just shouldn?t be touching other contacts and cutting them will still make them functional? They are cheap but constantly replacing them I hate

[wickated]

Ok so when they are bent they just shouldn?t be touching other contacts and cutting them will still make them functional? They are cheap but constantly replacing them I hate

yep sure, just cut off teared part until u have only 2 mm left

[MCorgano]

Maybe try a different techniques when disassembling the controller. I've taken apart at least 250 controllers, and while I do keep ribbon cables on hand to replace really gross looking ones I have yet to break one myself.

Cutting the end is a good trick, you can usually get away with trimming the ends of a cable with a bent pin or two to make it work like new. If you really wanted you could order your own from a place like oshpark and just design your own flex. Their flex pcb should last a lot longer than the usual ribbons