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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: HighhBrid on Thu, 08 January 2015, 23:59:02

Title: LED flickering on Ducky 9008S2
Post by: HighhBrid on Thu, 08 January 2015, 23:59:02

Does anyone else have this issue? Is this something fixable if the LED is physically going out?

Title: Re: LED flickering on Ducky 9008S2
Post by: rowdy on Fri, 09 January 2015, 04:22:21

One LED or all of them?

If all of them, it might just be PWM - you could try updating the firmware as some models of the Shine suffered from this and Ducky corrected it with a firmware upgrade.

If just one LED, dunno - a slightly shaky solder connection, maybe?

Is this keyboard still under warranty?

Title: Re: LED flickering on Ducky 9008S2
Post by: HighhBrid on Fri, 09 January 2015, 17:44:46

It's only NumLk. I've had this keyboard for almost 2 years and I think that it's out of warranty.

Do you know what I might need in order to install an LED? I think I can muster up the courage to fix it lol but it seems like a daunting task.

Title: Re: LED flickering on Ducky 9008S2
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 10 January 2015, 01:55:42

Read this thread (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=42824.0).

Have you got a soldering iron?  Solder?  Solder sucker or desoldering braid?

Replacement LED?  Finding one that exactly matched the colour of the existing LEDs is probably the biggest problem.

Or, if you're not sure about doing it yourself, there are those who provide keyboard repair services in various countries - http://wiki.geekhack.org/index.php?title=Keyboard_Modification_Services (list possibly slightly out of date).

Title: Re: LED flickering on Ducky 9008S2
Post by: HighhBrid on Tue, 13 January 2015, 01:27:54

Thanks a lot Rowdy. I appreciate the help pointing me in the right direction.

Title: Re: LED flickering on Ducky 9008S2
Post by: rowdy on Tue, 13 January 2015, 05:20:33

Most welcome :)

I hope you are able to resolve the situation.

I know it is a depressing feeling when something you have heard a lot of good about and spent a lot of money on turns out to be not as perfect as you expected.

At least with mechanical keyboards there is the possibility to repair them, a blessing and a curse of having any separate mechanical (and luminous electronic, in this case) components.