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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #50 on: Sun, 15 June 2014, 22:08:11 »
First and safest choice for me is black.

Followed by yellow, because yellow
Then red or white.

Would still pick black as it hides well under a key set, working with all keysets. (for plateless builds)



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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #51 on: Sun, 15 June 2014, 22:19:24 »
i'm very pumped about yellow. that said, i don't know how pumped anyone else is about yellow.

i think tex's new board does not fit the traditional poker/pure/etc. mounting points, so i don't think it will fit. feel free to correct me though

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #52 on: Sun, 15 June 2014, 22:41:40 »
I agree in regards to the black PCB. White would be okay too.

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #53 on: Sun, 15 June 2014, 23:14:56 »
so, it sounds like there's limited but fairly fervent interest in another small run of 60% titanium plates, and quite a bit more interest in different colors of GH60 pcbs. the titanium plates aren't a huge deal, and i can do any layout you want _if you get me a drawing_, but the gh60 pcb lots are really expensive in small quantities, so it's going to take some time to gather enough volume via geekhackers and geekhackers partners to make an order. sorry folks, hang in there and thanks for your patience.

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #54 on: Mon, 16 June 2014, 07:09:06 »
I'd take a PCB + a plate.
I think yellow is a good PCB colour.

Would all the PCBs need to be the same colour for cheaper prices? or is the price bracket more for assembly?

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #55 on: Mon, 16 June 2014, 08:13:34 »
I would like a black or white PCB because of you use a case like gons skinny 60% it just looks hideous with colors like yellow

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #56 on: Mon, 16 June 2014, 09:20:25 »
I would like a black or white PCB because of you use a case like gons skinny 60% it just looks hideous with colors like yellow

And I was thinking of getting the yellow pcb because of the Massdrop frosted clear TEX case… :)

But I do agree that it could also end up less than great, and for that reason, I would be far more comfortable buying black, and would really consider yellow if;  it turns out looking good, I already had a black on hand, and the PCBs were affordable enough to experiment with.


Imagine this with a yellow pcb, a yellow backlight, bumblebee keycaps, and a gold plate..  mmmmmm
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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #57 on: Mon, 16 June 2014, 09:44:41 »
I would like a black or white PCB because of you use a case like gons skinny 60% it just looks hideous with colors like yellow

And I was thinking of getting the yellow pcb because of the Massdrop frosted clear TEX case… :)

But I do agree that it could also end up less than great, and for that reason, I would be far more comfortable buying black, and would really consider yellow if;  it turns out looking good, I already had a black on hand, and the PCBs were affordable enough to experiment with.


Imagine this with a yellow pcb, a yellow backlight, bumblebee keycaps, and a gold plate..  mmmmmm
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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #58 on: Mon, 16 June 2014, 10:24:33 »
I would like a black or white PCB because of you use a case like gons skinny 60% it just looks hideous with colors like yellow

And I was thinking of getting the yellow pcb because of the Massdrop frosted clear TEX case… :)

But I do agree that it could also end up less than great, and for that reason, I would be far more comfortable buying black, and would really consider yellow if;  it turns out looking good, I already had a black on hand, and the PCBs were affordable enough to experiment with.


Imagine this with a yellow pcb, a yellow backlight, bumblebee keycaps, and a gold plate..  mmmmmm
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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #59 on: Mon, 16 June 2014, 10:30:22 »
In for PCB (probably 2.  No LED support, corect?)

For plate I'd be interested in Poker 2 layout.  Don't know what that's called...pretty standard.
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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #60 on: Mon, 16 June 2014, 11:02:15 »
I'd be in for a PCB.

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #61 on: Mon, 16 June 2014, 11:26:04 »
I'm interested in a PCB, too.

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #62 on: Mon, 16 June 2014, 12:01:35 »
i wouldn't mind a couple PCBs

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #63 on: Mon, 16 June 2014, 13:35:19 »
I'm in for a PCB or two in black or blue.
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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #64 on: Mon, 16 June 2014, 13:41:57 »
I would be love to get a PCB with preferably Black or white and a plate to go along with it, but I would also like to know would these support LEDs or not, otherwise what prices would we be looking at roughly?
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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #65 on: Mon, 16 June 2014, 13:46:14 »
I'd be in for a black PCB and a plate.  I'd settle for the basic standard winkey ansi aka poker.....though I'd prefer costar stabs with an off center caps lock.
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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #66 on: Mon, 16 June 2014, 16:15:30 »
So it seems that here one can have a GH60 before all those that have been waiting for a year in the official GB.
It's an open source project and this is a free market so nothing is wrong here.
Why i have a bitter taste then?
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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #67 on: Mon, 16 June 2014, 16:24:26 »
So it seems that here one can have a GH60 before all those that have been waiting for a year in the official GB.
It's an open source project and this is a free market so nothing is wrong here.
Why i have a bitter taste then?

Because you're human. And because you supported our project and have been waiting patiently for the result.

I seriously doubt these will ship before the GB orders start shipping, though. Here's to hoping. It usually gets me in trouble.
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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #68 on: Mon, 16 June 2014, 18:28:30 »
Well, didn't Komar say that he'll release the final PCB, after the GB end?

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #69 on: Mon, 16 June 2014, 18:35:49 »
Well, didn't Komar say that he'll release the final PCB, after the GB end?

That was the plan, yes.
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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #70 on: Mon, 16 June 2014, 19:26:55 »
it's going to take a while to gather enough volume to make an order, especially with everyone pretty much split on mask colors (this increases costs substantially). then there's lead time on the order. oddly, lead time on smaller orders can actually be longer than lead time on large orders because a large order is easier to schedule without machine downtime.

note that titanium plates have a much smaller lead-time though, although naturally the run is going to be very small.

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #71 on: Mon, 16 June 2014, 19:30:13 »
For the record, I'd buy 2 PCBs no matter what color they are.

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #72 on: Mon, 16 June 2014, 20:39:00 »
Yes, I will buy no matter the PCB color. I think most people will compromise on that to speed things up.
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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #73 on: Mon, 16 June 2014, 21:45:23 »
Depending on time (as I might find some 60% PCBs before production), I may order 2 or 3.

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #74 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 09:00:58 »
If you offered the bare PCB + a bag of components for a lower price than the factory-populated pcb (as on the GH60 GB), I'd take at least one (depending on the price). Black or white.

If that's yet another option that only raises overall costs, then nevermind, I'll wait for final prices to be announced for populated PCBs.

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #75 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 11:28:51 »
Yes, I will buy no matter the PCB color. I think most people will compromise on that to speed things up.
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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #76 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 12:02:16 »
thanks to techkeys.us and mechanicalkeyboards.com, it looks like we'll be able to do this for reasonable pricing. once we get everything worked out we'll let people know.

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #77 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 12:22:12 »
If we can't meet the MOQ or get reasonable prices based on people being split between colours then I think that black would be a very popular, neutral colour that everyone can agree on.
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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #78 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 12:29:07 »
i think it's a given that there won't be a concensus on color. :P

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #79 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 12:32:29 »
i think it's a given that there won't be a concensus on color. :P

No, probably not. You might lean toward black, as the GB PCBs are supposedly white. I say supposedly, because I haven't seen a production PCB at all, not even a pic of one.
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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #80 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 12:50:55 »
i think it's a given that there won't be a concensus on color. :P

No, probably not. You might lean toward black, as the GB PCBs are supposedly white. I say supposedly, because I haven't seen a production PCB at all, not even a pic of one.

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #81 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 12:54:32 »
Black would seem to be as the safest choice. As jd pointed out, providing the other 'colour' would make this a complimentary buy.

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #82 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 12:55:29 »
I say we get rainbow unicorn ****sprinkles coloured PCBs, I think everyone can agree on that.  :p
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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #83 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 13:36:09 »
you are welcome to dip your board in sprinkles before soldering it

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #84 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 13:58:08 »
I'd be up for a PCB and plate.  Assuming the plate would offer traditional ANSI with bottom row:
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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #85 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 14:29:38 »
pcb numbers are not looking great

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #86 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 14:35:05 »
I'd be up for a PCB and plate.  Assuming the plate would offer traditional ANSI with bottom row:
[ 1.5 ] [ 1 ] [ 1.5 ] [    7    ] [ 1.5 ] [ 1 ] [ 1.5 ]
can do any layout with these plates

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #87 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 15:22:33 »
I'd be up for a PCB and plate.  Assuming the plate would offer traditional ANSI with bottom row:
[ 1.5 ] [ 1 ] [ 1.5 ] [    7    ] [ 1.5 ] [ 1 ] [ 1.5 ]
can do any layout with these plates

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #88 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 15:22:40 »
Who will be shipping this out in the end? I am planning on buying a Learn to Solder kit from your site and was wondering if those could be shipped together.
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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #89 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 15:24:01 »
I've seen many listings on taobao for these GH60 PCBs.  I'm curious, wouldn't it be faster for the people interested only in the PCB to simply purchase one through taobao?

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #90 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 15:25:22 »
I've seen many listings on taobao for these GH60 PCBs.  I'm curious, wouldn't it be faster for the people interested only in the PCB to simply purchase one through taobao?

Those are Rev.B prototype PCBs that some Chinese sellers sent to production.

The final revision has not been released to the public yet.
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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #91 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 15:27:29 »
i'll be shipping out mine. however, i'll ship your LTS kit separately from the PCB and plate because i'll list them when i place the order with the manufacturer and state the lead-time needed. i generally ship items as soon as i have them in stock

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #92 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 16:05:42 »
I bet that CaptBadAss will ask for a purple PCB ...
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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #93 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 16:06:16 »
I bet that CaptBadAss will ask for a purple PCB ...
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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #94 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 16:58:00 »
I've seen many listings on taobao for these GH60 PCBs.  I'm curious, wouldn't it be faster for the people interested only in the PCB to simply purchase one through taobao?

Those are Rev.B prototype PCBs that some Chinese sellers sent to production.

The final revision has not been released to the public yet.

Oh, so this GB is for the latest unreleased-to-public revision?

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« Reply #95 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 17:45:10 »
I've seen many listings on taobao for these GH60 PCBs.  I'm curious, wouldn't it be faster for the people interested only in the PCB to simply purchase one through taobao?

Those are Rev.B prototype PCBs that some Chinese sellers sent to production.

The final revision has not been released to the public yet.

Oh, so this GB is for the latest unreleased-to-public revision?

yes, the most current pcb revision is what we will be manufacturing.

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #96 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 19:44:35 »
I've seen many listings on taobao for these GH60 PCBs.  I'm curious, wouldn't it be faster for the people interested only in the PCB to simply purchase one through taobao?

Those are Rev.B prototype PCBs that some Chinese sellers sent to production.

The final revision has not been released to the public yet.

Oh, so this GB is for the latest unreleased-to-public revision?

yes, the most current pcb revision is what we will be manufacturing.

What improvements does this updated version have?

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #97 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 19:56:58 »
I've seen many listings on taobao for these GH60 PCBs.  I'm curious, wouldn't it be faster for the people interested only in the PCB to simply purchase one through taobao?

Those are Rev.B prototype PCBs that some Chinese sellers sent to production.

The final revision has not been released to the public yet.

Oh, so this GB is for the latest unreleased-to-public revision?

yes, the most current pcb revision is what we will be manufacturing.

What improvements does this updated version have?

There was a bug in the previous version, if you used backlighting, it shorted a trace from the last column of switches I believe.
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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #98 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 21:09:36 »
I've seen many listings on taobao for these GH60 PCBs.  I'm curious, wouldn't it be faster for the people interested only in the PCB to simply purchase one through taobao?

Those are Rev.B prototype PCBs that some Chinese sellers sent to production.

The final revision has not been released to the public yet.

Oh, so this GB is for the latest unreleased-to-public revision?

yes, the most current pcb revision is what we will be manufacturing.

What improvements does this updated version have?

There was a bug in the previous version, if you used backlighting, it shorted a trace from the last column of switches I believe.

Does this mean that the previous versions are functional but this backlighting issue?

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Re: [IC] GH60 boards and titanium plates
« Reply #99 on: Wed, 18 June 2014, 23:24:28 »

I've seen many listings on taobao for these GH60 PCBs.  I'm curious, wouldn't it be faster for the people interested only in the PCB to simply purchase one through taobao?

Those are Rev.B prototype PCBs that some Chinese sellers sent to production.

The final revision has not been released to the public yet.

Oh, so this GB is for the latest unreleased-to-public revision?

yes, the most current pcb revision is what we will be manufacturing.

What improvements does this updated version have?

There was a bug in the previous version, if you used backlighting, it shorted a trace from the last column of switches I believe.

Does this mean that the previous versions are functional but this backlighting issue?

What it means to me is:

Why would you ever willingly purchase a product with a known flaw? Especially if the revised version was, or was soon to be, available?
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