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geekhack Projects => Making Stuff Together! => Topic started by: Morphemes on Sun, 21 July 2013, 22:21:21
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I was looking into mixing & matching the Cherry MX switches in my keyboard with other flavors in the MX series. Right now I'm all Blue. I'm wanting to change the spacebar to an MX Green & replace all the "lock" keys with MX Locks. I like the feel of the Blues for typing, but I was considering replacing the switches of function keys, arrow keys, etc. It would be AWESOME if Cherry Corp. sold a numpad with each of the ten MX switches, pretty sure they don't, so I was wondering if you had any recommendations as to which switches you would use for what key(s).
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http://deskthority.net/wiki/Cherry_MX (http://deskthority.net/wiki/Cherry_MX)
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There's 10 types of MX switch? Maybe if you count modded versions. I'd use all the same switch type for everything since there's no advantage to mixing them, just disadvantages like errors resulting in different forces required or reset points being in different spots.
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Blue
Brown
Red
Black
Lock
Light Grey
Dark Grey
Green
White
Clear
And then if we count it,
Super Black
Periwinkle (different shade blue stem with a stiffer stock spring)
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Yeah, unless it's a tester board, you're not going to enjoy trying to use a bunch of different switch types in one number pad. I've wondered if any Cherry MX switch manufacturer would try to make a Realforce type Cherry board, though. Maybe something like greens for the heavy keys and blues for the lights. Or black/red for linear lovers.
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you also know that you cannot use mx locks properly on a standard/ordinary keyboard.
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Not to mention, wouldn't the firmware of the board need to be changed to handle the signal of the lock switches?
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you also know that you cannot use mx locks properly on a standard/ordinary keyboard.
i'm pretty sure this is almost right. the only exception i can think of is a function key.
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Save yourself the trouble. Just get a G81.