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Offline Nokua

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Filco LED Mod?
« on: Mon, 03 September 2012, 17:17:07 »
I am wondering if there is such thing as a Filco LED Mod?

I read somewhere that it is possible to add LED's on your filco keyboards to make it backlit. Can anyone help me direct to any article or guide?

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Re: Filco LED Mod?
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 03 September 2012, 19:26:36 »
While it's technically possible the level of work involved is crazy since you can't go poking holes through the PCB without hitting at least a few traces.  The only Filco LED mod I am aware of being successful is changing the caps/scroll lock LEDs.
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Re: Filco LED Mod?
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 03 September 2012, 20:04:42 »
While it's technically possible the level of work involved is crazy since you can't go poking holes through the PCB without hitting at least a few traces.  The only Filco LED mod I am aware of being successful is changing the caps/scroll lock LEDs.

it's not really the technical challenge. It's more why waste your time doing this, when you can just buy one that's already backlit...

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Re: Filco LED Mod?
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 03 September 2012, 20:17:13 »
you can always litmod the stabilizers. i've been doing it to all my cherry stabilzers -- I like it quite a bit :)
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Re: Filco LED Mod?
« Reply #4 on: Mon, 03 September 2012, 21:53:19 »
Or if you have patience you can wait

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=35133.0

I'm guessing they should start coming out with news about it end of this year or some point next year *cross fingers* lol

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