Even better!
Rosewill's PCB is definitely not as good as Filco's. Rosewill's PCB is single-sided of so-so quality with through-hole components. Filco's components are surface-mounted on a high-quality dual-sided PCB. But both work as they are intended.
Rosewill's PCB is definitely not as good as Filco's. Rosewill's PCB is single-sided of so-so quality with through-hole components. Filco's components are surface-mounted on a high-quality dual-sided PCB. But both work as they are intended.
I don't ever open boards or do enough research to know such things. Thank you for your wise insight, good sir!
Rosewill's PCB is definitely not as good as Filco's. Rosewill's PCB is single-sided of so-so quality with through-hole components. Filco's components are surface-mounted on a high-quality dual-sided PCB. But both work as they are intended.
I don't ever open boards or do enough research to know such things. Thank you for your wise insight, good sir!
Single sided PCB doesn't scream lower quality. Keyboard PCB is huge, there's no need to go dual sided with so much space to mount diodes and route traces. Filco is also single sided for the most part, and does NOT have SMD components. All the diodes in both Rosewill and Filco are through holes. Only SMD parts are on the daughter board that has the controller, and both FIlco and Rosewill has these. Only real difference I see is that Filco has a tighter solder job at all the connections, and they implement a better way to attach the USB cable/port. Video of a review and the internals of a Rosewill, and pics of the PCB:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncB-rvAgrLQ#t=11m20s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncB-rvAgrLQ#t=11m20s)
Single sided PCB doesn't scream lower quality.
Filco is also single sided for the most part, and does NOT have SMD components. All the diodes in both Rosewill and Filco are through holes.
Single sided PCB doesn't scream lower quality.
Filco is also single sided for the most part, and does NOT have SMD components. All the diodes in both Rosewill and Filco are through holes.
http://i.imgur.com/d0s9i.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/d0s9i.jpg)
You decide if it is a better PCB or not, or if has SMD components or not.
All the Filco TKL that I have, and the ones that I've worked with for other people have all been single-sided. Here is a pic I just took a few min ago. I'm too lazy to desolder all the switches just to get a pic of the other side of the PCB, but you can clearly see that all the diodes in the pic is through-hole, not SMD. You can see all the copper traces on there too, and if you follow them, you can conclude there is no need for traces on the other side.
So again, single-side vs double-side PCB doesn't correlate to quality. It's a matter of manufacturing cost because single side is less expensive to do. Btw, the solder job near the duaghter board connection is not consistent on every pin in your pic. The soldering on my filco revision looks more consistent around that area. So let me know if your double-sided board is still somehow higher quality ;)Show Image(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/WhiteFireDragon/keyboard/Filcosingle-sided.jpg)
tempted to get those reds, god damn this site
You are so right. Clearly SMD Filco PCBs do not exist. And certainly only the Filcos you have seen ever existed.
weird .. looks like all the rosewill mechanical keyboards have been removed from newegg.
Maybe they had enough of the RMAs?
btw: there are still complaints in Sept/Oct about the usb connector failing.
newegg look like idiots for not *****ing enough to get this fixed. It's been a solid year since this defect has gone on!
The problem on your Rosewill could be just bad luck,I would happily believe that it was bad luck if not for the fact that so many other ppl have had the exact same problem for over 1 year.