@Lanx - you've used the ergo4k for 6+ years? How do you like the modded versions? Which one do you like better? (standard or grid layout)? Where'd you get all the donor switches?
my grid/matrix is still not fully modded, i think if i want to finish it, i'm going to have to scrape a few features (it was very ambitious) but "testing" the grid it sorta just feels the same as standard stagger i guess (of course i really couldn't say for sure)
from using the ergo4k since 05/06? to the modded cherry, the cherries are of course a dream, the regular ergo4k (i have a ergo4k in the closet, which means i have had 3 this year and like 6 total cuz they break so easily with a drop of water) (and since modded 2 of them i gave that one to a friend cuz his "a" "d" was busted) and testing the rubbers dome on that was DISGUSTING, since i go over to the house to "fix" his computer once in a while.
all the donor switches i got from scouring ebay, i forgot which model (it's in the first page) i think cherry 8000 or something but they were basically browns that had a bad circuit board, one was brand new, the other barely seemed used. Condition of the board didn't really matter to me, in fact if a few keys felt more "used" than other keys then i'd just swap them out for newer keys (i.e. function keys or whatever weren't used much), the cherry boards i went for had to be brown and was like 120key model.
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checked it and it was the cherry g80-8200, a really UGLY keyboard and really badly made in terms of casing, it feels like a childs toy, but i only wanted it for the switches and circuit boards anyway.