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Offline Idiot_Hacker

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« on: Wed, 27 May 2009, 13:07:51 »
G80-3000 Standard PC Keyboard (USB /PS-2 Combo Key, US 104 Key MX Gold and XPoint) - Color: Light Grey

http://www.posglobal.com/G80-3000LPCEU-0.html

Can someone tell what cherry switch this keyboard has and what is XPoint?
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Offline pmyshkin

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« Reply #1 on: Wed, 27 May 2009, 13:19:20 »
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Can someone tell what cherry switch this keyboard has and what is XPoint?


I believe the P stands for linear, so blacks.

http://www.cherry.de/english/products/keyboards_G80-3000.htm

Look under "Models"
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Offline lowpoly

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« Reply #2 on: Wed, 27 May 2009, 13:48:44 »
XPoint: Someone abbreviated Crosspoint (or Gold Crosspoint). It's how the contact inside the switch is designed.
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Offline Z Redux

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« Reply #3 on: Wed, 27 May 2009, 13:58:58 »
Here are a few pictures showing the crosspoint contact inside Cherry MX switches (about half way down the page).

The link comes from Chloe's Cherry Switches Wiki page.
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Offline Idiot_Hacker

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« Reply #4 on: Wed, 27 May 2009, 16:39:48 »
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Here are a few pictures showing the crosspoint contact inside Cherry MX switches (about half way down the page).

The link comes from Chloe's Cherry Switches Wiki page.


Thanks, I didn't even know there was a wiki for it
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Offline patrickgeekhack

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« Reply #5 on: Thu, 28 May 2009, 08:04:28 »
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G80-3000 Standard PC Keyboard (USB /PS-2 Combo Key, US 104 Key MX Gold and XPoint) - Color: Light Grey

http://www.posglobal.com/G80-3000LPCEU-0.html

Can someone tell what cherry switch this keyboard has and what is XPoint?


If you are interested in getting this keyboard, I suggest you try getting someone on the phone from POSGlobal: not an easy task. The system might let you create the order even though they don't any in stock.
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #6 on: Thu, 28 May 2009, 09:36:02 »
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Does anybody know what causes the click SOUND on a blue cherry switch?
 
It looks like it's caused by the white plastic part hitting the blue part. That would explain the plasticy sound. Webwit described it as "artificial", which is my thought when I switch in a Blue Cherry board for a Model M BS.
 
Chloe's link is in Japanese and but it seems to indicate vibration and something in that little exclamation bubble as the switch contacts are made.

You're exactly right.  On that same site, there is an animation of how it works.  Basically, the white plastic piece is butted up against the top of the switch and as it passes over the mechanism, the white plastic piece falls and clicks against the stem.
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #7 on: Thu, 28 May 2009, 09:37:22 »
All the way on the bottom of this page is the blue Cherry animation: http://park16.wakwak.com/~ex4/kb/tech_cherry_mx.htm
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Offline xyzzy

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« Reply #8 on: Thu, 28 May 2009, 09:46:54 »
Here's a direct link to the animation in all its glory: http://park16.wakwak.com/~ex4/kb/tech/cherry_mx_click.swf
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #9 on: Thu, 28 May 2009, 10:00:17 »
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Did anyone else find that animation strangely erotic?

Well, the switch is made by a company called "Cherry."
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #10 on: Thu, 28 May 2009, 10:15:05 »
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LOL - well I knew YOU would!

I didn't say that.  I was just offering a possible explanation. ;)
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Offline IBI

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« Reply #11 on: Thu, 28 May 2009, 11:55:16 »
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OK - now I got it.  The white part springs DOWN.  I thought it would go up.  It's actually hitting the tabs on the blue stem causing the sound (and some spring vibration).


I don't, what's causing the white part to go down in the last step?
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #12 on: Thu, 28 May 2009, 13:05:19 »
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I don't, what's causing the white part to go down in the last step?

It appears to be the lack of upward resistance from the leaf.  Once it gets past the leaf, the white piece falls.
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #13 on: Thu, 28 May 2009, 13:41:35 »
There might be a spring in the white piece pushing down.
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