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Sir Gregory Hall, Esq. wrote:

[Conductive tape to connect flat ribbon cable to PCB]
What do you think?

Wouldn't you short-circuit one contact to the next? Or do you plan
to cut it into tiny stripes, one per contact?

-is
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