Hey guys,
So I'm coming at you now from a Ducky Zero! Browns
I've had brilliant suggestions in other posts on this forum before about what keyboard and switches to buy, and this being my first mecha keyboard I think it's a nice start
But my confession..
It's back-lit, against a friendly and thoughtful suggestion in another thread.. I was (ahh geez) too ashamed to admit that I have a vision impairment and have trouble seeing caps without a back-lighting. Even with adequate room lighting. And although there was cause for concern about the build quality of caps with back-lighting, I thin Ducky have done a brilliant job here (minus the number row), and I also saw a modded back-lit board with normal caps so the light just shone through the gaps and it looked pretty sweet. Not sure how practical it was, but there may just be one way to find out
Anyway the reason why I bug you guys at this fine hour of the morning is that I'll be going back to my parent's place for the holidays and am thinking about actually changing the colour of LED's in this board. Oh, I forgot to mention that it's blue, a dark blue, which isn't really great. I mean it's okay, but not great. I previously had a logitech k800 back-lit that had white LED's and it was fantastic, so I would like to swap the blues over for whites.
I've read enough to know that this board is pretty easy to disassemble and all that's really required are 3mm LED's and soldering gear. But I'm just wondering if anyone happened to know whether there were certain things to look out for in a set of LEDs.. like whether 3.4 V is too high, 8000 mcd not bright enough, basically.
So my question is, what is the ideal LED to put into mecha keyboards? Please be specific, as listed above: what voltage, mcd, and current.
Thanks guys, as always!