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Title: Fell in love with my Ducky Shine 3 TKL right away... So is there a sleep mode?
Post by: MKANET on Fri, 06 December 2013, 22:49:23

I recently upgraded from my Leopold TKL with Blue switches to Ducky Shine 3 TKL brown switches.  To my surprise, not only does it look visually pleasing, it's built very well too.  It was a smart move for Ducky to get the higher quality dual layer PCBs.

This may sound like a dumb question; but when do the LED's turn off?  It would be hard to imagine Ducky would just let the LEDs stay one 24/7 on PCs that don't go into hibernate/sleep.  I read the small leaflet manual it came with; but didn't see anything about sleep mode.  I also searched online, but couldn't find anything about this (which is a bit surprising).  If I could control the LED's via Windows, I could write a small app that takes care of this; but, I'm not sure if the Function key is accessible via Windows.

Title: Re: Fell in love with my Ducky Shine 3 TKL right away... So is there a sleep mode?
Post by: Flossed on Fri, 06 December 2013, 22:59:36

I have never heard of a sleep mode for a keyboard before. :O I don't think you can control the LEDs via software either.

Title: Re: Fell in love with my Ducky Shine 3 TKL right away... So is there a sleep mode?
Post by: Morwrath on Fri, 06 December 2013, 23:01:25

FN + V turns the LEDs off on the Ducky Mini atleast...

Title: Re: Fell in love with my Ducky Shine 3 TKL right away... So is there a sleep mode?
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 07 December 2013, 02:27:42

The LEDs on my Shine 1 do not auto-turn off.  However when the computer goes to sleep and removes USB power, the keyboard does shut down.