Question What is this Cable Called? (need to order a replacement)

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Mr Kingsbury

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I have a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 p65f. In trying to replace the power jack I broke something else...

Having to replace the power jack requires a near total disassembly of the laptop. Trying to pop the connectors off the WLAN card resulted in the contact (?) being pulled off the card (seems to happen to me all the time with that card). So I ordered a replacement WLAN card. Then while trying to remove the contact out of the cable connector, I pulled the connector off...

I really don't know the correct name of the components I'm referring to, so here's a couple pics.






What is that cable called? Hard to look something up to order it when I don't have a name for it :)

~ John
 
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This is how you remove the WiFi card/antenna off the WiFi card;
View: https://youtu.be/1ET0jFvzAsw


Just an FYI, you will need to replace the entire antenna array with this part number;
https://www.ebay.com/itm/224589411533
and that would mean you having to tamper with the monitor bezel as well = more work than you signed up for.

These are the connectors on the card and antenna terminal;

U.FL series - HIROSE Electric Group [Connector]

Space Saving, Low Profile Coaxial Connectors. Space Saving:7.7mm2 (Mounting surface for receptacle). Low Profile:1.9mm (2.0mm Max) U.FL-LP(V)-0402.4mm (2.5mm Max) U.FL-LP-040, U.FL-LP-066. V.S.W.R. : 1.3 Max. [Up to 3GHz].
www.hirose.com www.hirose.com
https://www.amazon.in/BLTIATLE-Bulkhead-Antenna-Interface-Wireless/dp/B0CJ9VB6FP

Moved thread from Components section to Laptop Tech Support.
 
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My hands shake like leaves in a wind storm; there's no way I'd be able to attach the connectors.

Also, in that video, it looked like there was only the white connector... did I see that right?

As for removing the bezel, I'm having to take everything apart just to get to the power jack anyways.

And it's not like I have much choice; it's my Wife's laptop, and I have to get it running now.

Is this the same part as you linked to, just used and able to get to me in less then a month?

Used cable.
 
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Mr Kingsbury said:
Then while trying to remove the contact out of the cable connector, I pulled the connector off...
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If the connector at the end of the wire broke off with a doner wifi wire newly bought you could cut the wire and splice the new non broken wire + connector back together than use wire heat shrink on the splice.

This would be less work than more dismantling to remove the old wire set to replace it.
 
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USAFRet said:
You might consider buy a new, low end laptop, for the short term.
Send this one out to get fixed.
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We live in extreme poverty. We don't have that kind of money. And even if we did, there's nobody here abouts that fixes computers.

stonecarver said:
If the connector at the end of the wire broke off with a doner wifi wire newly bought you could cut the wire and splice the new non broken wire + connector back together than use wire heat shrink on the splice.

This would be less work than more dismantling to remove the old wire set to replace it.
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That might work. Just as long as the connector fits on the contact, it should work?
 
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Those antenna wires are tiny with wire in the sheathed core and wrapped around the sheath (coaxial). I would not recommend destroying a new wire to try to splice. Can you see the other end or does it sneak into the chassis?
 
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I was worried about that.

It goes in.

How about I finish taking it apart so to change the power jack (the original sin here), and perhaps I'll have a better view of where the antenna wire goes.

And as asked before is this used cable the same as the one in the link Lutfij posted above, except without the month wait, and being used?
 
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Mr Kingsbury said:
My hands shake like leaves in a wind storm; there's no way I'd be able to attach the connectors.
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Also just an FYI to give you a alternative to fixing the WIFI wire is to actually side step it all together and just buy a USB WIFI dongle.

It would be an instant fix/ solution.

Why I throw this out there is if you decide to replace the whole wire set you will have to also dismantle the monitor as the wires run up the side of monitor behind the screen sandwiched between the outer shell. Doable but a pain.

About your question is that the correct used wire.

I have never had different size end connector that needs to plug into the WIFI card.

I have spliced many of these as they are fragile but fixable not a death sentence if it were a ribbon cable.
 
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stonecarver said:
Also just an FYI to give you a alternative to fixing the WIFI wire is to actually side step it all together and just buy a USB WIFI dongle.

It would be an instant fix/ solution.

Why I throw this out there is if you decide to replace the whole wire set you will have to also dismantle the monitor as the wires run up the side of monitor behind the screen sandwiched between the outer shell. Doable but a pain.

About your question is that the correct used wire.

I have never had different size end connector that needs to plug into the WIFI card.

I have spliced many of these as they are fragile but fixable not a death sentence if it were a ribbon cable.
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We are not buying a dongle; we are senior citizens, and it will get lost (don't ask; it's my Wife's mess, and I stopped giving her anything important 20 years ago).

As for splicing, how do I do that with a coaxial wire? Sound as impossible for me as attaching a connector (mentioned before above, shaky hands and all).

And I wasn't asking if the used wire would work for splicing, but rater if it was the correct end-to-end replacement.

I've replaced monitor light "bar" before. When yer poor, you have no choice but to fix instead of buy.
 
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