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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: typo on Sun, 30 July 2017, 23:34:21
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They said that the 3mm Led's were a stop gap solution and never intended to be the final solution. So why does the MX 6.0 have 3mm Led's?
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They said that the 3mm Led's were a stop gap solution and never intended to be the final solution. So why does the MX 6.0 have 3mm Led's?
The MX 6.0 is not a new product; It may have been released in 2015. It still uses single color LED and painted backlit keycaps (yuck.)
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True enough. I do not like SMD. That is just me though.
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I don't like light-bleed. The Flaretech switches use a third solution: SMD LED on the PCB but with black housing and a transparent lens for the light. Instead of a 3 mm high 3 mm wide rounded cylinder, the light comes out only through a pinprick at the top of the switch. All lightbleed is from reflections inside the keycap.
I wonder how difficult it would be to make a lens insert for SMD LEDs and Cherry MX or some clone. Perhaps the bottom would have to be translucent with the top being opaque.