Around $100 in gold-plated Holtite PCB receptacles.
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Trying to go solderless?
Wouldn't that put far too much height on the switch and need a custom plate and casing though? Interesting anyway but in my opinion looks like a lot of wasted money :X for what you got anyway
That's the bottom of the board, my friend. The top is flush. The bottom is no deeper than the USB port as you can see. :)
Ahh right that makes sense now I was wondering why you would go to that lenght if you need to make everything else custom too :p
Haha, yeah, that would be crazy. They would be like little switch chimneys. XD Yeah, a big reason why these were so expensive was... Well, a few. 1) because they were gold plated. Totally unnecessary I know, but for a brand new PCB I thought it would be nice. 2) Because the dimensions. The sockets needed for Alps are a bit bigger and even the slighted bump up affects price. :( 3) ... Well, because the socket type, I guess.
The kind the Smart 68 uses has a small lip that sits on top of the PCB, but I wanted to avoid the height increase, haha. Those are muuuuuch cheaper. I dunno if they would work for Alps though. Never looked far into that kind.