Cutting 5V line on ribbon cable

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Cutting 5V line on ribbon cable

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My soldering days are over (hands shake too much these days) so Adafruit's ribbon cable and snap on connectors to make usb cables sound a treat. However, I want to make a cable with the 5V (red coloured in a normal USB2 cable) line cut, that is I only want the data lines and ground to have continuity. Is it possible to do that easily with the Adafruit ribbon cable?

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Re: Cutting 5V line on ribbon cable

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Which ribbon cable, (there are several)? these are somewhat fiddley so I don't know how you will succeed but at least you won't burn yourself.

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Re: Cutting 5V line on ribbon cable

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I was considering something like PRODUCT ID: 3563, but from the images online I can't make out whether you can see where the individual lines are. I thought slicing with an exacto knife parallel to the edge on either side of the line and then just bending the cable one way and the line i want to cut the other I could cut out a short length of the 5V line and then just stick a piece of electrical tape over it. Looks aren't too important, but I'd like it to be neat. I've cut and reattached a round cable but I had to use so much tape it looks like a horrible case of meatball surgery.

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