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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: jcoffin1981 on Thu, 24 December 2015, 20:29:48
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I'm sure most of you recall a thread from a few days ago where I nearly destroyed my board replacing some switches. The main purpose of this was space bar chatter or debounce and this is probably the most problematic key for this to occur on. At the time the manufacturer gave me the option of returning the board or giving me a handful of switches and fixing it myself. There were no other replacements being made at that time so those were my options.
The problem is occuring with about the same occurence as before. I've read about chatter and de-bounce and from what I understand the problem is individual variances in the keyswitches themselves and replacing the keyswitch should solve the problem. I have another keyboard perhaps I can perhaps install and test the switch and then re-install it in this keyboard. Or I can just put this in a closet and use the new one as my daily driver. I'm curious to hear others responses, remarks, opinions, etc., because most of you are smarter than me when it comes to this. I am just extremely, extremely annoyed. Also by doing this, I have voided my manufacturer's warranty obviously.
If curious if anyone else with Gateron switches report any key chatter, especially in the spacebar?????
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I remember reading your other thread. I recently got my varmilo tkl board with Gateron Reds and its chattering like crazy many different keys, its odd cause none of my cherry boards ever did this...
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If you take a program like Switch Hitter and search for debounce, if you hit a suspected key on the very edge and then hit it on the opposite edge it will cause chatter. Maybe as with a spacebar none of the keypresses are dead center t his contributes? There are stabilizers however which in theory keep the spacebar level. The only think I can th ink of i s to test a switch before installing it. You can see how I am typing, this is crazy. There are dozens of extra spaces.
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It sucks you have to go through all that trouble :/ However, I already contacted MassDrop about it. They said I can get a full refund, just have to go through the RMA proces :) Funny thing is I'm about to buy my first 60% a v60 LOL. However, with cherry mx reds :) Don't trust Gaterons or any other "rebrand"...
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I remember seeing a post on KBP's Facebook page advising customers experiencing keychatter on their V60 to download new firmware.
Might be worth looking up KBP on Facebook and see what you can find.
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I did update the firmware, but they later told me that that partcular firmware was meant for previous revisions of the keyboard and had no effect on this one. Anyway there was no perceivable change.