Soldering time! I think I need to retr0bright my Hakko..
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So I finished soldering and discovered that the Backspace LED was not working. I replaced the LED and nothing. I replaced the resistor and still nothing. Until I read the notation on the PCB:
LED:N/L. Apparently, this means that the LED is the toggle indicator for the Num Lock that is enabled by
FN + U.
Now for the pics!
Popped my HyperFuse set:
My wife calls this
an unusually small keyboard. She hasn't seen the JD40.
Bonus!Bob the CC 3D: "
Hey bro! That's my spot!"
Rusty the Steel V2 BB: "
You snooze, you lose baby!"
Bob: *grunting*
Grumblegut: *grunting*
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I actually finished this yesterday afternoon and have been typing on it since then. So far I haven't had any sticking problems with lubed 55g clears but I have noticed that my habit of resting my fingers on keys have led to unintended actuations.
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At first I was frustrated by the lack of dedicated keys (F5, arrow keys, Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down) but after an afternoon marathon of emailing, surfing, Photoshop, and word processing I'm getting used to using the FN layer. I particularly enjoy how the function layer allows for everything to be right there
The only downside I foresee is when I need to do work in Excel...meh...I can whip out a full-size if and when that happens...or do is it time to get a Num Pad?
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Edit: Reuploaded pictures to Imgur. RIP Dropbox Public Folder.