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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Fluffs on Wed, 10 August 2011, 07:41:18

Title: EK Soft Landing Pads?
Post by: Fluffs on Wed, 10 August 2011, 07:41:18

Anyone here have any experience with the soft landing pads (http://elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=access,slpads) from Elite Keyboards? Specifically with respect to the Filco or Leopold boards.. I wonder if it would have any noticeable dampening effect on the ringing some of the metal plate boards have.

Title: EK Soft Landing Pads?
Post by: reaper on Wed, 10 August 2011, 09:07:56

You might wanna check out this thread (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?17511-EK-s-quot-Soft-Landing-quot-Pads-for-Cherry-MX&highlight=soft+landing+pads) with pics, sounds, etc.

Title: EK Soft Landing Pads?
Post by: Arcanius on Wed, 10 August 2011, 11:27:47

If you want to use them against the ping, you're likely out of luck.
The pads rest on top of the switches, and since it's the springs and plate that resonate, you're not going to have any perceivable dampening of the ping.

Title: EK Soft Landing Pads?
Post by: pitashen on Wed, 10 August 2011, 12:16:18

Landing pad would only reduce the sound resonating from the cavity of the keycap as well as the enclosure.