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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Panzerhawx on Tue, 18 October 2016, 02:19:13
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(Don't know if anyone has posted about this before, but oh well)
So I ordered some 3D-printed LED colour changer plates from http://v0idtek.storenvy.com/ (http://v0idtek.storenvy.com/), and (foolishly) did not realise that the Kailh switch housing does not have holes to fit the plates in. The DayDream ones also run into this problem.
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Broke one during trial and error.
Not giving up hope though, going see what I can do with it. I'm thinking perhaps it could be stuck to the interior of the caps, but that might cause discrepancies with lighting when the key is pressed / not pressed.
Another method might be to cut the pegs off the plates and stick them somehow on the switch itself. Not sure about that though. Will test some more.
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More testing ensues:
With the broken LED colour changer plate that I broke above, I managed to snap both legs off cleanly, and secured it over the switch's LED lights with a tiny strip of tape, wrapped around the switch.
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It holds fairly well, considering it's now just an L-shaped piece of plastic and a bit of tape. The problem is that Razer's green LEDs shine with such a strong green colour, that the purple plate is too weak of a colour / material to affect the lighting properly.
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Furthermore, when a keycap is placed on top of it, it doesn't shine through at all. It just looks like the backlighting has been disabled. Another factor is probably the black tape that I used, which is blocking off light dispersion from the top of the LED.
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That aside, the key sits nicely on top of it, albeit slightly 'mushier'.
A very ghetto method - definitely not practical. If you have Kailh switches with white LED lighting, it might just work properly. For now, that's the end of this experiment.
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(I am not endorsing Razer and its keyboards in any way, this was merely a test. I am not a fan of Kailh switches myself.)