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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: hudson0804 on Mon, 05 October 2015, 14:03:19
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Hi folks,
My ducky has developed a dull LED on the numpad.
My brain tells me this is either a bad LED or that it needs re-soldering.
My brain also tells me that in either of these cases im going to need to solder this if i want to fix it myself.
Common sense would tell everyone that this (clears throat) Is a bad idea.
Anyone know of an UK based places that will referb this for me or should i just stop being a **** and do it myself?
Whats involved if i do it myself, do ducky use special switches with the LED built in...
I thnak you for your time.
H
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Hi folks,
My ducky has developed a dull LED on the numpad.
My brain tells me this is either a bad LED or that it needs re-soldering.
My brain also tells me that in either of these cases im going to need to solder this if i want to fix it myself.
Common sense would tell everyone that this (clears throat) Is a bad idea.
Anyone know of an UK based places that will referb this for me or should i just stop being a **** and do it myself?
Whats involved if i do it myself, do ducky use special switches with the LED built in...
I thnak you for your time.
H
The led will be soldered directly to the pcb. If you take the board apart, and look under the pcb, you'll be able to see where it's soldered. You should be able to just add some more solder to it, assuming that it isn't dead. If it is dead, you'll have to desolder and replace the led.
Be warned though, that if you're going to be buying a soldering iron and such, a RadioShack type soldering iron is not going to cut it. That's a great way to burn your pcb beyond repair. Make sure that at the very least, you get a soldering iron with adjustable temperature.
Otherwise, I'm sure there's someone on gh that could probably do it for you...
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Good luck finding the Exact matching color..
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Yeah having spent a considerable amount of time now googling to see if i can do this without fudging it up and the tools needed, the colour thing hadnt come to mind until now...
I'm gonna see if ducky or any of their channel partners can help...
H
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Just for an update in case anyone ever find this thread via a search, the UK RMA for Ducky will do a repair for £25 which includes shipping back to you also.
Not bad considering.
H
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If you have a backlit model go with Ducky but if not just buy 4 LEDs and I'll swap them all for you so they match, special delivery was about £10 each way last I shipped a fullsize so you save about £15 minus some LEDs (pennies) :)
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If you have a backlit model go with Ducky but if not just buy 4 LEDs and I'll swap them all for you so they match, special delivery was about £10 each way last I shipped a full-size so you save about £15 minus some LEDs (pennies) :)
Thank you for the kind offer, however its a backlit model, i am aggrieved to spend 1/4 the value of the keyboard to fix one light but no-one ever said that this "hobby" would be cheap :)
This may be a conversation for the future as I would look at changing out some of the LEDs i.e. the special keys being a different colour LED - something I've toyed with since seeing some of the custom back-light layouts people have had.
H
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The keyboard hobby, cheap? Definitely not :))
Feel free to PM me whenever, I'm not going anywhere.
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SIDE NOTE RAMPAGE - I'm outraged at failing LEDs!!!
They were originally made with a huge commercial flaw - ie lasting forever!!!
After years of research with trial and errors, scientists were successful at time bombing the LED technology.
Now we see failing LEDS on a regular basics - Shame on you money oriented industrials!