You can get 20 pin Ffcs on www.digikey.com

on another note if anyone is interested I have a good source for the 110" blackout cloth
I bought 16' of it for what is going to be my huge widescreen. (price $60)

I think you should make a seperate post about it.. a lot of people have been looking for a good source recently, but many of them probably won't visit this thread

Good call!

actually i think i will contact my guy and have him post it.

Also, if you could you place a LINK to your friend's post, when it becomes available, so no one has to search who is reading this topic, that would also be greatly appreciated!

Cowboy, you ended up getting the WM7710CT-ND Zif connector from digikey then?

I've got the same monitor on its way, and I want to be sure I get the right extension.

Thanks man.

I got the same monitor, too. Is it easy to tell which pitch(distance between the individual wires) the FFC cable is?

Basically a 1mm pitch means each pin is 1mm apart. For a .5mm pitch there will be 2 pins per 1mm length.

This is great info! I just purchased this monitor and now am purchasing the 8" extension.

Glad we could help.

the cred really goes to jonjordan though

Who is this jonjordan of whom you speak?

Thanks though, I appreciate it.

Dude you have been the biggest help to me by far on this forum. I am on my way to 1080p. (eventually)
mostly because of your help.

not to downplay help from others like tescorp, Rorshach and many more.

Thanks

I was refering mainly to the spelling of my username.

For any of you interested in this monitor you will have to deal with this
Click to view attachment

It is a 20 pin and the white connector on the left is super easy to use so don't sweat it.

Here is a post with more info about it http://www.lumenlab.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15669
it is .5mm
EDIT
Christof was asking for more info about extending the FFC on the x2gen so I am adding some.

First you need the parts get
WM10242-ND
and
WM7710CT-ND

from digikey.com

now you need to free the FFC from the ZIF. All you have to do for that is put a fingernail under the white plastic part that is show in the picture above on the left. To clarify the fingernail goes between the FFC and the top of the ZIF. It should flip up with minimal force.

now the FFC is free 1/3 done

the FFC from digikey is way too thick to fit in the ZIF on the x2gen. It is also a little too thick to fit in its own ZIF when you mash the FFC from the board in there with it. Here is my solution. I took a rounded exacto knife blade and held it perpendicular to the backside of the end of the FFC (the one from digikey) then I moved it back and forth rapidly shaving the blue part of the cable down to make it thinner. It took about ten minutes to shave down both ends. If you had a dremmel with some sort of sanding attachment it would work a lot faster but you would have to be careful not to go to far.

once the ends of the digikey ffc are shaved down enough I would recomend putting the 2 FFCs together first into the ZIF from digikey. I felt like I needed a third hand when I did this. Just open the digikey ZIF and with the 2 FFCs (pins together) jam it into the ZIF. I found that mine jammed in there and didn't want to come out again so I didn't glue it, but some suggest you glue it. then take the other end of the digikey FFC and stick it into the ZIF on the board and flip the little clip/lever back down and you are done.

no big deal

I have F'ed around with this monitor a lot and it still works great so don't worry (besides these things are cheap as dirt so it is not like there is that much risk)

here's the answer!!!!!!!
http://www.lumenlab.com/forums/index.php?s...mp;#entry184488

so do you understand my instructions ok?

If you need anymore help or pics perhaps I can work something out. Let me know how yours works out.

got home late from work today
Overtime: 1.5hrs
Reason: fell asleep under the desk, Castanza style

I had a set of exacto blades and one of them was rounded. So I was able to follow those directions to a "T", and successfully! I bent the new FFC cable so that there would be less stress on the original one, but I don't think I have much to worry about. The monitor is brand new and the cable is years from brittle.

thanks Cowboy

Doing it this way, is the digikey ZIF only being used as a way to hold together the 2 FFC cables? So the digikey ZIF metal connectors aren't being used and the 2 ffc connectors are actually touching each other directly? Or am I misunderstanding?

I have the x2gen stripped on my floor and I'm trying to figure this out :-p

Thanks for the help