hm just opened the board from curiosity, removed the splash guard and keycaps getting it ready for the next step. So any ways when i took out the inside of the keyboard looking from the back first comes the PCB,then the metal plate. Some say everything needs to be desoldered in order just to gain acess to the soldered LED's... Looks to me like the soldering was done on the rear of the PCB right? I can see all the solderings done to the LED's and the switches. The only problematic thing I see, not sure if it will in my way when desoldering and soldering is the smaller PCB I guess you guys called it PCB controller right, its where cable gets attached to. Well anyways under the very corner of the controller plate is located the tips of the W keys LED.... I can see that the controller sits above the main PCB with some sort of plastic risers that the tip of the risers looks like you can insert a flat screwdriver. I for the life of me tried lefty-loosey to unscrew them in order to remove the controller PCB to gain more acess for the W LED solders but it wont budge... the risers go incircle no matter right ot left but nothing gets loosen or tighten up.... Whats the trick for removing the PCB controller and also what you guys think if I see the LED and Switches solders on the rear of the PCB, then I dont have to desolder everything right? just the LED's and solder new ones right?
also I'm not electrical guy, but as far as I know the board is rated at 5V, and the LED's that I'm looking into are not rated more than 3.2V depending on the color, only difference is the luminous intensity is higher than what DECK is using for their LED's. as far as I know the luminous intensity means how bright the LED shines and that should not interfer withy the overall functionality of the board as long as I keep the LED's under 5V right?
Well any answers will be apreciated, I will keep this thread alive and if you guys dont understand what I'm saying let me know and I will post pics without any problems.
Thanks.
