I got my BL82 in today and it's really neat...I love the back lighting on it, but damn does it take a lot of force to actuate a key. The rubber dome style "blood spatter" protector adds a tactile feel to the MX Black switches and a lot of force. Just to see how much force, I went to the nickel measurement system. I know it is not a perfect form of measurement, but for comparison sake it works.
I previously tested my Cherry MX-11900 with MX Black's and it took 13 nickels to actuate the switch and 17 to bottom it out (roughly 65g and 85g respectively). Well here is a picture of what it took to actuate and bottom out the TG3 with the blood spatter guard installed. (Note: Actuation and bottom out seems to be the same force because it doesn't actuate until the rubber dome gets over powered which is already above the force to bottom out a MX Black).
25 Nickels (125g) on what is probably a never used Pause/Break key and no actuation. I needed more nickels.
Finally...30 nickels (150g) and I get actuation. Now for a key that is probably well used.
The probably well used key (this was a used po-po board), the arrow key. It took 26 nickels (130g) to actuate. Needless to say...I will be removing the blood spatter guard later tonight with more pictures of everything torn apart.
