Trying to solder the ribbon cable on the display ended up breaking the ribbon cable. The cable looks like it’s a bit corroded inside anyway. Is there any reason I can’t just solder 30 tiny wires of appropriate length to the display pins and also to the pins on the ribbon cable slot? It won’t be pretty, but is there any good reason why it wouldn’t work?

Steve wrote:
Just stumbled across this thread. If you do make any more of these, I would be interested in a pair to replace a botched set of ribbon cables I recently removed from the lenses.

as far as I know this isnt being developed anymore due to the high cost of flex PCBs. I created a more durable (but slightly more expensive) alternative, the Virtual Ribbon, which is here: https://www.planetvb.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7561&forum=1