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Title: How is it feels Cherry MX Blue + mx brown 45g Spring?
Post by: fssbzz on Sat, 08 January 2011, 15:48:42

will it still be clicky?
How is it feels Cherry MX Blue + mx brown 45g Spring?
anyone try this before?
thanks

Title: How is it feels Cherry MX Blue + mx brown 45g Spring?
Post by: clickclack on Sat, 08 January 2011, 16:00:57

Should feel about the same if not exactly the same. I believe the are the
same/similar spring. From what I remember they felt the same.

=)

Title: How is it feels Cherry MX Blue + mx brown 45g Spring?
Post by: fssbzz on Sat, 08 January 2011, 16:03:00

lol no. brown and blue feel totally different to me.
i like the force needed to press on the brown but not on blue.
if blue is lighter like brown, it will be nice.

Title: How is it feels Cherry MX Blue + mx brown 45g Spring?
Post by: Nadger on Sat, 08 January 2011, 16:21:10

Edit: tossed them together in photoshop
(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=14625&stc=1&d=1294525853)

brown looks like its got 1 more coil.

Title: How is it feels Cherry MX Blue + mx brown 45g Spring?
Post by: clickclack on Sat, 08 January 2011, 16:25:02

Quote from: fssbzz;275329

lol no. brown and blue feel totally different to me.
i like the force needed to press on the brown but not on blue.
if blue is lighter like brown, it will be nice.

The switches should indeed feel different, not the springs within them.
The blue switch has a slightly higher activation force likely do to the slightly more pronounce plastic bump in the floating stem. If the spring is different, it should only be barely noticeable, barely.

=)

Title: How is it feels Cherry MX Blue + mx brown 45g Spring?
Post by: calavera on Sat, 08 January 2011, 19:47:49

I have a black switch + brown springs combo that I love. It was quite popular in S.Korea. I also have a white switch + brown springs combo that feels similar to cherry blues but has less of a "click"...it's hard to explain. I think nobody does blue switch with brown springs because the difference is just too small to notice.

edit: If I remember correctly the pressure goes as follows

black= 70~85g
blue = 60g
brown = 55g
red = 45g

Title: How is it feels Cherry MX Blue + mx brown 45g Spring?
Post by: dec.net on Sun, 09 January 2011, 07:43:27

um, these springs do look very much alike and I guess it could be reasonably assumed that Cherry corp is into saving money by using one spring for two different tactile switches... But since spring actions often depends more on the actual spring wire used than the number of coils, it would probably be the definitive end to all guesswork if one could take a photo of the spring being compressed (or extended, if that's easier to accomplish) by a known force, with a readable ruler right next to it. Those are linear springs (as can be told by the regular intervals between coils) and thus one point in the force-compression or force-extension diagram would be enough to see if they are identical.
Which, by the way, brings me to another question... Question thread following.

Chris

Title: How is it feels Cherry MX Blue + mx brown 45g Spring?
Post by: Nadger on Sun, 09 January 2011, 18:45:00

Is there a spring ligher?  Reds are the same spring arrant they?

Title: How is it feels Cherry MX Blue + mx brown 45g Spring?
Post by: HaaTa on Sun, 09 January 2011, 19:37:06

Yes, Reds are the same spring.

If you want lighter, you'll need either a 30g Topre, something like a DataHand, or mod yourself a Cherry MY board to 20g.