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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: SamirD on Tue, 31 October 2017, 14:12:04

Title: BigKey Switch Type?
Post by: SamirD on Tue, 31 October 2017, 14:12:04

Anyone have one of these?  I got one at goodwill for cheap and it's a tackle and clicky feel, but it's definitely not a cherry blue.  So what's the switch?

Title: Re: BigKey Switch Type?
Post by: SpAmRaY on Tue, 31 October 2017, 14:17:07

This thing? https://deskthority.net/wiki/Bigkeys_LX

Title: Re: BigKey Switch Type?
Post by: SamirD on Tue, 31 October 2017, 14:32:17

Why didn't I think about the wiki.  :-[

Yep, that's the board and that feels like the switches too.  Not bad for $3.  :thumb:

Title: Re: BigKey Switch Type?
Post by: chyros on Tue, 31 October 2017, 17:20:28

I had a

Title: Re: BigKey Switch Type?
Post by: Daniel Beardsmore on Wed, 01 November 2017, 03:58:47

According to the website — https://www.bigkeys.com/what_lx_features.asp — the BigKeys LX has "Top quality click-style key switches, tested to over 10 million keystrokes" — but having written to them (twice, September this year and September last year) to ask what they're using now, they've not responded. So they're in my bad books.

Title: Re: BigKey Switch Type?
Post by: SamirD on Wed, 01 November 2017, 21:19:51

I think they haven't responded because they don't want people gutting the boards for the switches.  But I wouldn't have even thought about picking up the board if it wasn't for the switches as my parents already have custom big-print Ms.