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[Lewynlight]:
Revanche < re·vansh> Lit. "Revenge".



Prototype Pics (Lots of details, please watch your bandwidth)
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Aight, I'm not gonna fill this thread with the what the name means.
I will also keep the introduction short. I have been working on this TKL for the last 2 years.

With the feedback that I've gathered from my previous designs, and my experience building & using various kinds of boards, I'll try to provide an endgame-flavored polycarbonate focused keyboard at the lowest possible price.

Why polycarbonate?
Many people prefer to use polycarbonate board for their daily use. polycarbonate is more robust, resilient and of course, pretty to look at if you turn on your PCB's RGB lights. there's so many PCB that offer RGB underglow, but we haven't been able to use it due to our keyboard being all aluminum. feels nostalgic when you first got that B.Face TKL? here's your chance to being able to lit things again.



Specifications
• 5° Degrees Typing angle, 17.xmm Front height , 9 Degree Polycarbonate bottom upgrade available
• Winkeyless/winkey F12 Tenkeyless Layout
• Polycarbonate Chassis (top&Bottom) Frosted color, Thermal Threaded screw on case, Smoked color tentative
• Aluminum Option Available (Top&bottom) - 3 Color (still tentative), Gunmetal Grey, TGR Cyan, Lilac
• Choice of 5051 1.5mm Aluminum Silver Plate, or Copper plate
• 2mm Copper/Stainless/Aluminum Series 7 Acoustic Plate for sound tuning
• Dual mount - Classic top mount or O Ring (trust me this is good)
• 87A PCB compatibility (if your PCB has JST between the Bksp & Insert, it should be compatible. USB C3 Unified daughterboard.
• 1.1kg kit (might varies if you are using copper or aluminum acoustic plate, weighted is with Stainless Acoustic plate)



MOQ 50, Cap at 100.
Price Goals : US$290 / IDR 4,350,000,- / SGD 392,5
for 1 kit, which consisted of;

1 Keyboard chassis set (Top&Bottom)
Series 5 Aluminum switch Plate
Hairline finish Stainless steel Acoustic plate as a default
PCB (solder) & DB
Fixtures & Hardwares
Carrying Case & Cloth

Prototype/FE Typing test by one of the FE buyers who are kind enough to let me post his typing test video to this IC, thanks Fomo.;

To-Do:
more photos soon. sorry for the lack of photos. Updated.
Approach Vendors. I would like to keep this thing to a minimal as I realized that the market situation is not that good. Indonesian shipping is trash. I need to find a lead vendor with easy access to international shipping to save costs.
need to record more typing test
Need to do a typing test with different acoustic material (I want to try wood.)
Need to try a different PCB to test compatibility
lending my board to some content creators.

[Lewynlight]:
RGB testing on FE unit

[Lewynlight]:
Question & Answer:

Q: That's still expensive.
A: it should be better now.

Q: Vendors?
A: Acid&co (myself) for Indonesian locals. i'm not sure about the rest of the world. lots of locals at my country has expressed interest in this board atm. we will see, please consider this as TBA..

Q: Why are the machining is so apparent at the polycarbonate?
A I used cheap-ish factory to deal with proto because I want to save costs. the production run will be using a higher grade factory. so the quality of the PC and the machining result should be better.

Q: Aluminum?
A: Yes. it's available. please read the specification above.

Q: ISO?
A: for the purpose of maximising the sound profile, feel and reducing SKUs, I will not offer ISO plates. the PCB will be compatible with ISO but you need to make your own ISO plate. Plate are using Jane V2 / RS Cutout, with modified flex cut and feel. the PCB will NOT have any flex cut due to the acoustic drawback they provides.

Q: will you be able to offer Aluminum 9 degree kit?
A: I wish, but sadly i can't, it's too expensive. 9 degree bottom are only available on PC only due to costs of material and machining time.

Q:What inspired you to make this board?
A: Duck Unikorn X Legends. Basically I want to make better UxL, but I went overboard and here we are. this board is also heavily influenced by RS TKL and the OG Jane V2.

Q: Credit?
A: Listed below;

* Yuu/Yuuworks as my 1st CADer. His contribution is greatly appreciated in order to make the O ring good. 
* 2nd CADer TBA.
* Edward / @Edwardtanujayaa - Instagram. His photography skills is insane.
* DYZ as the Prototype/FE PCB Maker. 
* Production PCB Maker TBA 
* also shout out to Duck for the side profile(which sadly is not in the hobby anymore),
* Bisoromi for the plate,
* Bababaul / Paul for the acoustic plate discussion. that was a fun one and I am glad i am able to implement my theory at this board.
* Prototype GB participants which i can't type one by one here.
* and finally, you. if you read all of those wall of text until this point.

alas:
Looks great!

Oni:
Very clean looking and would definitely be interested in the Cyan color. Will this board have any internal or external weights?

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