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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Lanx on Mon, 22 August 2011, 11:49:28
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i put in 100pack of clear stems (sorry guy i forget your name, but you've been paid!) order so far i've only modded my mouse with an ergoclear and i love it more than a brown or a ghetto red, gonna do the whole keyboard now.
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how did you mod for mouse with an ergo clear? Didn't know you could do that.
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Glad you like them! Great switch.
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how did you mod for mouse with an ergo clear? Didn't know you could do that.
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?19067-cherry-modded-death-addler
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the switch has a difference in actuation and resting point that is akin to that of a blue switch.
and i do not see ergo clears coming close to the awesomeness of blues when typing lol.
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ergo clears don't make the janky click clack faux noise that blues make, they are totally different switches.
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Just saw your mouse mod. Awesome. Next up, mobile phone! Mechanical numpad on phone? Serious geek cred.
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I switched the ergo-clears in my keypad back to blues, I wasn't thrilled with switches that don't pop back up. :(
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Welcome to the club.:thumb:
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You were obviously doing it wrong.
I switched the ergo-clears in my keypad back to blues, I wasn't thrilled with switches that don't pop back up. :(
Sent from my EVO
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Good condition clear stems that were cleaned of old gummy lube, in brand new blue switch housings. Swapping stems between sticking and non-sticking ergo-clears didn't change which switches would stick down. I'm suspecting variations in the spring contacts of the virgin blue switches, as even the blue stems would vary in tactility and noise in certain switch housings. Might just need to swap the blue springs into used clear switch housings, spring contacts just might need to be broken in.
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You probably had the clear tactile prongs on the wrong side, this would cause them to stick.
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make that 9, i love em.
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make that 9, i love em.
Nice!! Glad you like them =)
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Nice!! Glad you like them =)
finished modding my g80-1800 carryaround to ergo clears, sadly im out of stems to mod more of my boards. I know my boss will appreciate these over my cherry blues when I start in October ^^.
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TBH, sixty was actually the first one to recommend this mod to me. I've somewhat popularized the switch here, but I think he may have actually been the first to try it.
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i've got the "left side" ergo clear'd
i'm holding off on doing the whole board, mainly cuz... i want to finish my v2 mod and it'll "force" me into finishing that mod, heh. but right now left side ergo-clear right side brown... feels weird.
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where do you get the stems from to make the ergos?
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where do you get the stems from to make the ergos?
yup, when? just curious about that.
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where do you get the stems from to make the ergos?
Ordered some from BiNiaRiS :
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?20565-BiNi-s-Keyboard-Bazaar
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I recycled mine from an old g80-3000.
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You probably had the clear tactile prongs on the wrong side, this would cause them to stick.
Nope. The switch contacts were having trouble getting past the tactile bump on the way back up, some had more trouble than others.
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Good condition clear stems that were cleaned of old gummy lube, in brand new blue switch housings. Swapping stems between sticking and non-sticking ergo-clears didn't change which switches would stick down. I'm suspecting variations in the spring contacts of the virgin blue switches, as even the blue stems would vary in tactility and noise in certain switch housings. Might just need to swap the blue springs into used clear switch housings, spring contacts just might need to be broken in.
I think I had the same situation, I tried using the ergoclear stem spring combo in a virgin blue housing and it was sticking, but in my 2 month used black kb's switch housing the switches do not stick at all.
On another note the switches feel different than browns imo in that it doesn't feel like a tactile bump really in the middle of the stroke, it's more akin to the buckling spring or snappy rubber dome feeling of having a higher initial force needed but for a really short distance than the same ease of pushing down. I guess it's similar to the way blue's work but with the "release" I guess you'd call it of that pressure coming earlier, and in my opinion it lines up better with the actual switch actuation and makes for me personally a much better typing experience than the blues or browns.
sry kinda late and a noob at keyboards(only owned a mech kb since may) but this is just my humble opinion and observation.
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Last night I built some ergoclears with "broken in" POS board switches and swapped them into my keypad. I haven't used it much yet, but the difference initially is staggering.
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Last night I built some ergoclears with "broken in" POS board switches and swapped them into my keypad. I haven't used it much yet, but the difference initially is staggering.
So you have a rare example of staggered numpad ? :lol:
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How much did those 100 switches run ya?