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The switches I most loved: As light as possible
submitted 4 years ago by [deleted] from self.mechanicalkeyboards
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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (7 children)
Thank you so much for your tips man. I've never seen this new kind of hot swappable socket before. I'm going to build a board with them, and then I'm going to experiment with bottoming out linear switches! I certainly type terribly and bottom out always, so it might be a great fit. You've lifted my keyboard funk.
I am serious, if you don't know how to read Chinese and buy it from there, the price won't be good, I saw people buy mechanical keyboards from China all met the same problem: they deliberately sell them far expensiver outside China.
I believe you, I just don't see people coming out and admitting it very often. And us Americans are conditioned to believe that only white people are racist. Or we're just culturally dumb.
I have seen tutorials for buying stuff in Chinese... I'll think about that. I'll probably just stick to AliExpress though.
[–]Snow 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (6 children)
You can buy this with the correct sockets, so you don't need to build it yourself, this is the cheapest one with the correct swappable socket:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32952663095.html
Buy they selling this china with this price: https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a312a.7700824.w4002-21764443711.41.10316a1bXv5iMb&id=582404204488
It's the same store....
[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (5 children)
Holy shit, $60 vs. $3.40, that's nuts. I think you just blew my mind.
I'm in the market for a 60% or ideally split 60% though. That is a good idea just to buy one and not solder in the swappable sockets. I do alright with the soldering though, I've made 4 or 5 boards so far.
[–]Snow 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago* (4 children)
It's $60USD VS $258CNY (36 USD).
Hard to find 60% keyboards...then you should DIY it.
[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (3 children)
Oh, oops, thanks for the correction. Yeah still a massive price difference.
This one seems about right: https://www.1upkeyboards.com/shop/controllers/1up-rgb-pcb-hse/
[–]Snow 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (2 children)
Another option here:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32902986840.html
[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (1 child)
Oh nice. Yeah it turns out I can't add these sockets to any board, so I will certainly get one of these boards.
I also tried some Kaihl speed switches... They seem pretty awesome with their shorter travel. I'm gonna get some Hako to try too.
[–]Snow 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (0 children)
I liked kailh sliver on the ctrl button!😃 Easy to push.⌨
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