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Title: What is your End Game switch?
Post by: TeacherGeek on Sun, 02 June 2019, 03:47:43

I've searched the forums for this topic but couldn't find it.

What is your favourite switch?

At the moment, they are Kailh Box Whites, but I am sure that will change once I play with more.

Title: Re: What is your End Game switch?
Post by: lolafineday on Sun, 02 June 2019, 04:42:33

Right now they are gateron inks so smooth and such great sound

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Title: Re: What is your End Game switch?
Post by: tp4tissue on Sun, 02 June 2019, 07:22:24

Hall effect switches that have ANALOG,  + recalibration function as the magnetism changes overtime.

I would like to see optical do this as well, but leds are less stable than magnets unless they use an expensive drive system..


Other than that, MX-Blue is already mechanically perfect.

Title: Re: What is your End Game switch?
Post by: natAT on Sun, 02 June 2019, 08:28:30

Quote from: TeacherGeek on Sun, 02 June 2019, 03:47:43

What is your End Game switch?

Could never say for certain. From the wisdom of Yoda: "Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future."

It would very likely be based on a contactless sense means (Hall Effect etc). It generally seems like contactless sensing permits maximum flexibility in switch designs, for the most interesting and robust mechanisms.

Currently: The buckling springs in my (late) Unicomp are my favorite switch to date. So possibly the (reputedly superior) buckling springs of a Model F or a beamspring might quality as my "endgame".

Title: Re: What is your End Game switch?
Post by: nelamvr6 on Sun, 02 June 2019, 08:30:42

Buckling Spring

Title: Re: What is your End Game switch?
Post by: Findecanor on Sun, 02 June 2019, 08:40:49

A super-smooth completely silent Cherry MX Clear with variable weighting.

I have wondered for some time if that could be realised as a modified Topre dome with helper spring. Dome for tactility. Helper spring with steep force curve for achieving cushioning after actuation.

Title: Re: What is your End Game switch?
Post by: Techno Trousers on Sun, 02 June 2019, 09:01:27

Capacitive buckling spring, and modded box jade with a slightly stiffer spring.

Title: Re: What is your End Game switch?
Post by: flurryvelvet on Sun, 02 June 2019, 20:42:03

Alps SKCM Whites

Title: Re: What is your End Game switch?
Post by: ArchDill on Sun, 02 June 2019, 21:26:53

I like to change it up.. not sure that I could pick.

Right now... my favorite MX is 62g Vin blacks, lubed with 3204 in Zeal housings.

Title: Re: What is your End Game switch?
Post by: thearctican on Sun, 02 June 2019, 22:51:15

Topre 45g feel in an MX switch form factor.

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